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Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
Publisher: Lgn®
Programmer:  Rocket Science Productions
Release:  ©1990
Players: 1
Graphics: 2
Sound: 6
Play Control: 1
Replay Value: 1
	This is by far the worst game I own.  Even worse that Bugs Bunny Crazy
Castle.  Here is the basic storyline.  Bill and Ted are holding aconcert and
they need to help a bunch of people in the past find their historicalicons
(like Shakesphere has a skull and Rembrant has a paintbrush) so morepeople
will come to their show (e-mail me if you understand this, because Isure
don't).  Basically, what you have to do is take a payphone back in timeand
find historical icons and give them to their owners.  How you find theicons
is by jumping into bushes, fenceposts, trees, etc.  Now, the thing thatmakes
this game so frustrating is the fact that there is one historical itemper
level and about 300 things to jump into so you can imagine getting a bit
frustrated.	There are also a bunch of psychotic "locals" that have a destiny to
lock youin jail and the only way to avert this is to run (which is exceedingly
hard,due to crappy controlls), jump (which is also hard due to the fact thatthey
jump higher that most trees), throw a magical black box on the groundwhich
causes all of the locals in the area to suddenly explode, throw a can of
pudding of the ground and watch them run after it, or throw a radio onthe
ground and watch them do "the hustle".
	Let's pretend you find the historical icon.  Whoopee!  Yay!  Hooray! But
wait.  Now you have to find the person, which is located in a randomhouse out
of 20 or so.  19 out of those 20 houses are inhabbited by psychoticlocals who
are bent on making your life a living hell.  Since Rocket ScienceProductions
forgot to put code in for a "knock" command, the only way to see if thehouse
is the right one, is to break and enter.  The locals don't try to killyou for
that one, though, they just throw you in jail.  Once in jail, if you donot
have a skeleton key to break out of jail, then your game ends, but hey,you
can always try again.
	If you do manage to find a historical icon, and the right house, justhope
that the historical figure who lives in that house is the one who wantsthe
historical icon you have.  Yep, you heard right, my freind, there is a1 out
of 20 chance (20 historical figures {the old people}) that the iconwill be
for the right figure, well, I guess you couldn't help them this time. If, for
some odd reason, you get the right icon, find the house, and don't getkilled,
then guess what...  Do it again!  Except this time instead of looking in
bushes, trees, and fenceposts, you look in tumbleweeds, cacti, andfenceposts.
Final rating:  Don't buy.  Please, dear God, don't buy.