The Three Stooges...

I recently won this game on Ebay, and could not wait to break into the box and play this game. I had played it once before on the NES and thought it was quite fun. In the picture below I am playing the game on my C128DCR that sits adjacent to my SX64. I use Epyx Fastload on both my systems to decrease load time on my software, and an Epyx 500XJ joystick which, in my opinion, is the best C64 joystick. 

            The game is quite fun, with the games premise having a noble cause in saving an orphange. The mini-games within the main game actually require a bit of game-play skill. You have to race through a hospital without hitting patients, splat pies on peoples heads, find cash, win at short quizzes based on the Three Stooges cinema life, and find cash. The video below is the Amiga port with fairly decent graphics. The C64 port is not bad and worth the play.

           Here is what Wikipedia has to say: The Three Stooges is a video game originally released by Cinemaware in 1987 for the Amiga, based on the comedy act of the same name. In the game, players control Stooges Moe, Larry and Curly in minigames based on classic Stooges films with the aim of raising enough money to save an orphanage.  The Three Stooges must rescue an old woman's orphanage by earning money in various minigames based on various Three Stooges films. These include cracker-eating contests (based on the Stooges short Dutiful But Dumb) and boxing contests (based on the short Punch Drunks). Players select minigames by timing a button press as a hand randomly points to various symbols representing in-game events, including non-interactive events that can increase the Stooges' cash total. Each event takes up one in-game day - players have thirty in-game days to earn as much money as they can.
Several different game endings are received depending on the amount of money the player has earned after the thirty days, the best of which has the Stooges not only saving but renovating the orphanage and marrying the orphanage owner's three daughters.The game was later ported to the NES and Commodore 64 and released by Activision.Versions for the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation were developed by Metro3D, Inc. and released in 2002. The game was also updated for release on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh as one of Cinemaware's "Digitally Remastered" editions.