Customer Reviews

The Three Stooges

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The Three Stooges have always been my favorite comedy team. So when I heard that they were coming out with a new Three Stooges Game Boy Advance game, I was thrilled! So I bought the game, and believe me, I was so happy that I got this game! This game features many of my favorite things that I see while watching the Stooges. There is the oyster contest, which is seen in the short "Dutiful But Dumb". There is also the boxing match, where Larry breaks his violin while trying to play "Pop Goes The Weasel", and he has run to the radio store to get a radio playing Curly's fighting song before the six rounds of boxing are up. There is also pie fighting, hospital chasing, and many more things to do. I recommend this to people who love the Three Stooges and who also love playing video games. This is the best!

Pie throwing, hair pulling, safe breaking,... and why? to save an orphanage of course!! Overall, I found this game pretty fun, although the mini-games do get a bit repetitive. I'll give the game 4 out 5 stars, because I really think that there should have been an option to switch Curly with Shemp at certain times during the game.The movie clips were good, although a little on the not numerous side. To those who found the game a complete wash out, i say cut them (The Stooges, and Nintendo) a little slack. I'm just glad that they came out with it. Who knows what's next, maybe Laurel and Hardy?! If you want slapsitck comedy, and are willing to stretch your patience a tad, this game is a gem!!!

This is a very fun game. I had this game for the original nes and i still play it sometimes. It is 2 players and has lots of many games you play. The object of the game is to save the orphanage. Some of the games are: soup eating, pie throwing, boxing, doctor, trivia, etc. I might buy this game, but I'm not sure, since it is a direct port, although upgraded in graphics, of the game i already have.

This is another game from the old CinemaWare collection that was originally for the Amiga, Apple IIgs, PC, etc. I originally played the PC and Apple versions.

This GBA cartridge is an exact port of that old game. You play the part of Moe, Larry, and Curly as they try to raise money to save an orphange. Money is earned by playing a series of mini-games.

For the most part, the game play is as easy as the older versions except for the oyster eating contest. That part is much easier with a mouse than a control pad, but I still played it decently on my GBA.

I love seeing these older games re-released for new systems. The cartridge should hold up much better than my diskettes. Plus, you don't have to worry about system requirements. I don't know what the market for these retro games is like, but I'd like to see more old computer games released like this one. Most of my old favorites would need a keyboard so a GBA version would be unlikely (like the old Sierra Space Quest, King's Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry series), but it might be possible for a console.

I'm a Knucklehead/Stoogie, so I bought the game. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else though. It gets boring REAL Fast, and the mini games that you have to play are pretty easy. Of course, this is a re-issue of an old game. If you liked the old game, you're sure to like this. But if you're not after nostalgia for that old game, or a die hard knucklehead, you should SOITENLY skip it.

I bought this a year or so ago at Costco because I love the Three Stooges (and I'm female!) and I love cartoons (John K creator of Ren & Stimpy is a huge fan of the Stooges as well) and I needed some more games for my fairly new GBA. It isn't fun. You have to play several different mini games a bunch of times, and they are very difficult and not even fun, hardly even mildly entertaining. You have to raise $5000 in a month for the orphans, I was lucky if I ever got up to $500 after a frustrating 20 minutes till the game was already over. I'll be trading mine in at Gamestop next week.

This is the best 3 stooges game ever only I wish you could be indivivdual characters all the time if you can get this game for under $20 its worth it!

This is the first game I played on a Gameboy Advance, and I found it to be very fun and addicting. The graphics are cool and the individual games are original and challenging but not to the point of throwing the cartridge against the wall. The mission of the game is for the Stooges to earn at least $5,000 in 30 days to save an orphanage from a brutal banker. You choose different tasks by stopping a pointer as it moves through different options (each individual game equals one day).

Two of the jobs are helping out at a hospital and a grocery store. These games are very similar as you move the Stooges to catch items while trying not to run over too many people. Another money-making opportunity is the cracker-eating contest where you try to scoop up crackers with a spoon before oysters gobble them up (sound familiar?). This was very challenging to me at first, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. Another mission is to get Larry to run down an alley (jumping and avoiding various objects) to obtain his violin and return to Curly's boxing match in time to play "Pop Goes the Weasel" (sound familiar?). This game can get you a big time pay off if you get back before the sixth round. I usually make it by the fifth. The most difficult job by far is the catering game where each Stooge throws pies or pizzas at the guests while avoiding being hit with pizzas that are thrown back at them. You have to pay attention to who's throwing and who's standing and how long it takes for the pie or pizza to make it to the other side. You have to go through 57 pies or pizzas and the ones that do not hit a guest in the face do not count, so this can be a very long game. Once you get into a rhythm, it can go very smoothly but the big pay-off is if you hit guests' faces 57 times without being hit yourself. I've never been able to do that. The graphics are very impressive. There is even a rug with a popular Micheangelo painting. The easiest options have the Stooges just finding money in the street.

Three Stooges fans will get a kick out of the game because the individual games refer to actual TS episodes and they even have actual TS audio clips and photos. One of the games includes TS trivia (it also has question about the video game company)

The reason I dropped a star is that the pointer sometimes plays tricks on you. You may think you've chosen an option but the pointer suddenly points to something else. Sometimes it hits on traps (if you take too long to choose, it will automatically hit a trap) and four traps have the Stooges going back to the orphanage before their 30 days and, often when that happens, they have not earned enough money to save the orphanage. The game then ends and you have to start over which is very frustrating if you have a good run going. It is difficult to get through all 30 days because of traps. The other problem I have is, when you complete your mission, the response you get seems to suggest there is a new mission and the game will continue, but it doesn't. It just ends there. What's up with that? After all that work it kind of makes you feel empty. Still, I find the game innovative and fun and recommend it to GBA players.

The Stooges is good old fashioned fun. I think I'll recommend it to my friend Lars.

It's great to be able to play this game again! This was an awesome, innovative game when it first appeared on the Amiga computer. It may not be as difficult as many of today's games, but it is still a lot of fun -- a silly kind of fun that isn't currently found on other games for the GBA. Hey, it's the Stooges -- they're not challenging... they're silly, goofy and entertaining! Where else can you throw pies, slap, pull hair, get squirted by oysters, see a safe break open on Curly's head, and control Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine and Dr. Howard? ...and all for a good cause -- to save an orphanage!