November 23, 2015 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Strange things are afoot in Bill and Ted's Excellent Boardgame, from Steve Jackson Games
AUSTIN, Texas (November 23, 2015) – You are in danger of flunking most-heinously tomorrow!
Travel across the circuits of history with up to four players, collecting personages of historical significance in order to pass tomorrow's oral report. But beware! Every time you snatch someone, the phone booth breaks most non-triumphantly, and your adventure through time will take a most serious turn!
Be excellent to each other . . . and PARTY ON, DUDES!
Steve Jackson Games finds the whole thing bodacious. "Welcome to the future," says Rhea Friesen, the Marketing Director for Steve Jackson Games. Co-designer Randy Scheunemann, stated late Thursday, "No Way!" To which co-designer Samuel Mitschke responded, "Yes Way! It's Bill and Ted's Excellent Boardgame... SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!"
About Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure debuted at the box office in 1989 on a budget of $10M. The film went on to become a smash hit, grossing $40.4M domestically, and launching the career of Keanu Reeves, who played "Ted." Since that time, the film has become a cult classic with iconic phrases such as "Be Excellent to Each Other" and "Party On, Dude!" woven into pop culture today. Currently, sixteen manufacturers are producing Bill and Ted's products, including a new comic book and a number of new digital games.
About Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games, based in Austin, Texas, has been publishing games, game books, and magazines since 1980. Its best-selling game is Munchkin, with almost 7 million copies of the games and supplements in print worldwide. Other top sellers are GURPS (the Generic Universal RolePlaying System), Zombie Dice, and Illuminati. Past hits have included Car Wars and Toon. Steve's very first game, Ogre, originally released in 1977, drew almost a million dollars' worth of Kickstarter support in 2012 for a super-deluxe edition, which was released in late 2013.
Press Contact:
Rhea Friesen, Marketing Director
marketing@sjgames.com
(512) 447-7866 x207
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure characters and images ™ & © 1989, 2015 Creative Licensing Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
