Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection Is About To Be Delisted On The Switch eShop

LRG = 💩
Haven't bought from them since 2022 and hoping to continue that through 2024. Just can't support this garbage business model and I'm sick of the expensive shipping and waiting 12+ months for games. Enough. 😡

I think after ten months most would have bought this very niche game, I never even knew it existed, until I had read this article.

@EVIL-C can I just ask something? Which versions did you buy? I have bought a few different games recently and, unless they have vastly improved in the last year, they have only taken 5 months max. All standard editions (I have heard collectors editions take a lot longer, that's why I'm asking).

@johnvboy Your comment lined up pretty well next to the
"NEWS Bill & Ted’s Excellent Retro Collection Just Shadow Dropped On The Switch eShop"
related column.

@CharlieFen I bought the Scott Pilgrim KO edition from them and waited nearly 2 years for it to arrive. I believe my Classic Editions of the Konami collections have each taken best part of a year. I've had the Contra and Castlevania ones, but still waiting on the Arcade and Castlevania Advance ones. Night Trap on the GBA as well has been a 9, nearly 10 month wait now. I think if you're just wanting a standard, regular copy, you're fine, but anything fancy, you're gonna be facing a long wait. I'm not saying I support this business model, because it isn't the best, but people need to consider production and manufacturing times and that isn't going to happen overnight.

well, I love retro collections on Switch, so even though these aren't very well-regarded games, I decided to get it anyway.... Oh well. I suppose it's fun to have a game that the Angry Video Game Nerd covered at least.

I picked this up around Black Friday for a buck or two just to have it and it's pretty awful. The games, all two of them, aren't that stellar. The Lynx and home computer titles weren't even attempted, it's just the LJN stuff, and they're known for bad games

Limited Run Games have made big improvements this year.
I ordered Quake II phyiscal (standard edition) at the end of August. It was delivered to me at the start of December. That's less than 5 months waiting time.
BIG improvements from their previous system.

@EVIL-C

Eh, I'll pass. Bill & Ted was an LJN game with all sorts of gameplay issues, so I don't think I'd want to spend my money on a game that sucks.

@fox_mattcloud oh I am completely on your side! Not sure if you meant to reply to the other person? As I was telling them that I believe the standard editions come out much faster, everything I have ordered this year (admittedly all standard) has only taken a few months.

@LadyCharlie I've only ever purchased from LRG once, and that was for the Shantae collection from several years ago. I plan on purchasing from them again when the physical version of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution comes out for the Game Boy Advance.

Of course, I'll also get it for Switch, but I still want to play it the way it was originally intended. I'll just have to get a working GBA first, as the D-Pad on my original model is shot, and the L/R buttons on my SP (and my DS Lite, for that matter) are also shot.

Limited Run currently have Bill and Ted in their physical year end sale, so this will no doubt be a ploy to get rid of excess stock that they have of a game which no one really wanted, because it’s trash.

As bad as these Bill & Ted games were and still are, it's still a shame to see any game/collection just poof out of existence likely because of some licensing shenanigans.

That's a total not cool, dude!

This makes me fear the Jurassic Park Collection being pulled some day. And I get the feeling that only the Ocean developed games were planned, and the Sega developed one were only added due to fan backlash.

No loss.
If you really wanna play these ***** games, then you can always easily find the roms.

Delisting of licensed games is a always shame, even if they're are not great games... if you miss them. I have the Simpsons Arcade game on PS3 and Transformers Fall of Cybertron on PS4, but missed OutRun Online Arcade on PS3. When I think of some of the great C64 Ocean movie licences (Platoon, Batman the Movie) which wont be ever be officially released on any retro collections, it is unfortunate.

I did buy their recent Jurrasic park compilation digitally, I'd never played the Megadrive games and enjoyed a few of the other titles on there.

I love the movies, but the NES game is doodoo. AVGN ripped it a new one years back.

Knock 90% off and I'll consider it

@Ristar24 I wish there was an easy way of playing Transformers: FoC. I only got to play War for Cybertron.

Man this collection was just such a weird thing for LRG to do and I feel like they did it just because they could instead of spending time on literally anything else with the Carbon Engine. Hopefully the Jurassic Park Collection doesn't suffer the same fate of being available for such a short time

@EVIL-C 12+ months for games? More like 5-6 months. Their business model is fine, they give physical editions to games that would otherwise be digital.

LRG - I've only purchased once from them, Radiant Silvergun, and it took forever to arrive. However, as someone who regularly crowdfunds boardgames, long waits for the payoff are not new to me, and I'm not bothered by them. I kinda wish I had been using them more in the past, as there are several games I would like to have gotten from them.

Oh No! I would not be able to buy an awful collection of Two bad games based on mediocre movies! Guess Im stuck playing TOTK (The Bill and Ted cartoon was cool, but the movies have not aged well at all, I recently tried to rewatch the first one and could not stand it, the whole Napoleon in the water park scene made me cringe, the second one holds up a bit more…but the third one is just horrible, should have leave them In the past and remember them through my rose tinted glasses)

"before January 1st, 2024"

Posted on December 26.

Did LRG feel challenged by Bamco's recent grand 1 month heads-up? Wait, according to the further comments on Twitter, they "didn't want to atrract attention to the delisting so as not to create false demand for the digital product"?

...

And the original tweet can sound like several other games like Scott Pilgrim and Turok are subject to this as well, although the SMM guy at least seems to deny that further down.

Still, tell me we millennials aren't the last gaming generation to have heard about budget planning on the customer side.

How does it take a year and 2 months to port an NES game and a Game Boy one to Switch?

That's what I want to know.

@Lanmanna The PS4 version of FoC was only availble digitally for a really short period if I remember, and with little publicity... useful if I ever get a PS5 as should be BC. Its a real shame those games are not available now digitally to purchase.

My physical copy still hasn't arrived (the first time that this has happened with LRG), along with A Boy and His Blob (Wii port).

The first parcel was allegedly lost in the mail before even leaving the US (this was back in July). The second parcel was sent in September, allegedly arrived in Australia on the 29th. No further updates in the three months since. I contacted the delivery company directly and they said they will only investigate at the seller's behest.

I've been waiting nearly 6 months since it was initially sent, and over a year and a half since placing the order (I've just come back from placing another support inquiry with them).

I don't blame LRG for this as it's the bloody incompetent shipping company(s), but this is absolutely ridiculous, and if they end up sending the items a third time, then I hope that they are compensated (as I don't know whether anybody is ever held accountable for losing items in transit).

Ironically, a few of my other LRG orders have arrived without issue during that time though.

The good news is that I have this physically. But then again, I may consider getting this digitally before it is delisted.

I maintain they the Game Boy game is actually very solid and alone makes this collection worth the cost. Crazy that the license expired less then a year after the game released though, but hey, true to their name, it's a LIMITED RUN.

They also understood the assignment when they priced the game £/$__.69

"Most non-non heinous!"

Supposedly nobody is missing out.

Both games are garbage anyways so the more these garbage are taken out of the eShop the better. Limited Run Games as cool as they are at first nowadays are just looking for trash to bring back to flood the physical market and the eShop. That's not cool. Nobody wants games like American Hero, Plumbers Don't Wear Tie, Sewer Shark, and Jurassic Park to ever return to market. These were terrible then and still are terrible now.

@CharlieFen I'll chime in too: For me, I've been waiting for Trip World DX (GBC) since April. I feel like that's a loooong time.

Now, I'm not complaining per say, but either way you slice it that's a long wait.
Luckily I'm not someone switching addresses and stuff frequently but I could imagine some people's situations change over the course of a year and that can cause some extra stress.

As well as being able to buy the Bill & Ted Collection in physical form for the Switch, you can also buy a physical copy for your PS5. Yes, because that's why I bought a PS5 a few weeks ago - to play old NES or Game Boy games. (I have nothing against old NES or Game Boy games. I play them sometimes. But it's not the reason I bought a PS5.)

Anyway, I looked these two Bill & Ted games up on teh interwebs. It seems the NES game is abysmal and the Game Boy game is OK-ish. So that's one abysmal game and one OK-ish game. I think I'll pass, thanks.

A game where you can throw puddings at Napoleon and Sitting Bull. I remember this game fondly.

@ChromaticDracula that is such a shame! I completely agree, just saying it seems to be an issue with the non-standard ones. The weirdest thing now though is I just got an email saying they shipped my Persona 3 Portable order from October. Being in the UK too, the last order they shipped only took a few weeks from the dispatch email. So whenever anyone orders from them, I always advise to go for the standard editions.

@CharlieFen I bought Konami Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection in January, and it arrived last week. That said, I don't really have a problem with LRG. If you don't care to wait, simply buy the digital version.

@Burning_Spear I think you're replying to the wrong person? I've been advocating for them 😊 although I have said that I only buy standard editions, whereas most seem to be having issues with the other ones. Mine only take a few months to arrive, 5 at the very most. My Persona 3 Portable has just been shipped and I ordered that in October.

@Serpenterror I don't know, I bought Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden recently from them, as well as Castlevania Advance.

@sleepinglion It's a shame. I think the Lynx version was the best of the B&T games. It's a fun overhead adventure/puzzler.

On a related note, the Switch needs more Lynx ports.

Thank you for posting this. I was waiting for a sale, but now I know it's now or never

I think LRG's turnaround time would improve if they would just slow down on the releases. They announce new games and editions so often it's no wonder they can't keep up.

Ugh but Limited Run Games being involved in anything has rapidly gone from a mark of quality to a massive red flag.

@whitespy12 Thank you. It’s nice someone recognises that the GB game was actually pretty good instead of just parroting the AVGN’s review of it. It might not be the best game ever on the GB, but it’s a fun little game in the same vein as Donkey Kong ‘94.

@HammerGalladeBro you are asking the real question lol

@EVIL-C I forgot I'd ordered a LRG it had been so long and you just reminded me. I ordered the RiffTrax game to support RiffTrax only to find out the next day that LRG was selling it on Amazon and Amazon customers get free shipping and will get the game before I get the same one from LRG! >.< Done with those guys lol

I realize Bill and Ted is a well known licensed property, but I wonder how many crap games have gotten a second life due to AVGN. And how many were released by LRG. If we all watched Nerd play the games why do we want to own them? Plumbers Don't Wear Ties? Come on. I guess I just want to play good games.

@Ridley,

Glad to be of service.

@GameRiff Ouch, I'm sorry to hear. See, that's the kind of scumbag BS I'm talking about with LRG. I got my Go! Go! Kokopolo Collector's Edition arriving any day now, since it's the final 3DS release, as I'm a mega fan of the system, but I'm done with LRG after this.

@Ridley Really begs the question… who is this game for? It wasn’t well received, shadow dropped, and only available for 10 months. It’s almost as if they wanted it to fail.

I never supported that political company!

@EVIL-C I think there is going to be another 3ds release. Limited Run mentioned they have one more game?

@its_luke_c https://www.reddit.com/r/LimitedPrintGames/comments/125iv6b/limited_run_games_tease_they_have_one_last_3ds/

This, I guess? Even after explicitly saying Go! Go! Kokopolo was their last 3DS physical release... ****!!! More BS and lies from LRG. SMH. 🤦‍♂️

Was gonna get the physical but was waiting for it to be 50% off but it sold out ! Will grab the digital before it goes as I fancy having the collection. Anyone interested in getting Scott pilgrim on the switch in physical form it’s now 50% off on limited run games website ! I’ve never seen them have any discounts before