Play Three Stooges, The Online

I remember picking up The Three Stooges for the NES back in 1989. It was developed by Beam Software and published by Activision. At the time, it was just another licensed game trying to cash in on a familiar property, sitting on the shelf next to a sea of other cartoon and movie adaptations.

In the game, you control Moe, Larry, or Curly through a series of short minigames based on their classic slapstick routines. Your main goal is to earn money by completing these challenges to help the Stooges save an orphanage from foreclosure. The gameplay involves activities like pie throwing, a surgery sequence where you must carefully remove objects from a patient, and a door-slamming chase. The action moves quickly from one screen to the next, and the difficulty can be unforgiving, with precise timing often required. Playing it feels like a chaotic and sometimes frustrating attempt to recreate the trio's particular brand of humor.