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"Sointenly" it's fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

FUN

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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!

Who decided to dig up THIS corpse?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just a word of caution, or rather a year:

1987

That is when Cinemaware originally released this game for PC waaay back in the day. Now I fully realize that Nintendo has really climbed aboard the reissue bandwagon with its Game Boy Advance (Final Fight One, Street Fighter II, F-Zero, etc) but do we really need to be plumbing the depths of 1st-generation PC games for new old material?

I gave this game 3 stars because, as far as gameplay goes, it isn't totally bad. The game is made up of several mini-games, most of which are very simple and child-friendly. Except for the Trivia portion, which I don't believe they actually left in the game, bizarre! It's fun on a very base and whack-a-mole level. Do well enough in each mini-game to earn enough money to save the orphanage.

I honestly thought it was a joke the first time I read that this game was being released, but here it is. I think we all need to start being very scared about what direction Nintendo is taking with its cutting-edge portable. Hint: "It's the opposite of forward."

A stooge fan says "YUK"

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love the Stooges. I have 30-odd of their movies, I have their picture framed on my wall. I bought this game as a matter of course but took it back the next day because it was so bad.

The mini-games are very repetitive. The grocery store and the hospital are essentially the same games in different trim. I never could figure out the soup game and switching between stooges in the pie throwing was a real pain.

The only good points were the trivia (which was almost fun) and hearing the clips from the movies (though they got old because there are not vary many).

This game had a place back in the 80's when it came out. Compared with the games coming out today, it doesn't measure up.

Fun? Why soitanly!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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!

LIKE THE SHOWS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THE GAME IS GOOD (IT REALLY IS).BUT THEY MADE TO...STRANGE.WAY TOO PREDICTABLE WITH MINI GAMES.BUT IF YOU WANT TO SOMETHING DIFFERNT AND FUN,THIS IS YOUR PICK(EVEN STOOGE FANS WILL ONLY PLAY OCCASIONLY).

Recommendation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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

A must for Stoogies only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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.

The Three Stooges

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved the game on the original Nintendo and also like the GBA version. Now I don't have to keep hooking up my original Nintendo player to play the game! Don't miss out on this one!

Very disapointing and not fun.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

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