The Three Stooges (NES)

The Three Stooges

Platform: NES Year: 1989 Developer: Beam Software Buy: Amazon

The Three Stooges is an NES port of the home computer game of the same name. The game consists of mini-games based on certain episodes of the Three Stooges. The plot is that the Stooges walk by an orphanage that doesn't have enough money to pay for repairs and if they don't pay for repairs in 30 days, they will lose the house. The Stooges agree to get them money for the house.

Screenshots

The title screen.

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Music

Most of the music heard in the game is based on the show, and taken from the home computer versions. The player gets to hear the Three Stooges theme, Three Blind Mice, Mozart's Sonata in C, and Pop Goes the Weasel. These tunes were all arranged by Gavan Anderson. The music is tuned at 451.1 Hz, and the sound driver appears to still be limited to playing back at 150bpm; however, Anderson was evidently trying to work around this limitation by this time, and having some of the songs play back at an effective 75bpm by arranging them at half speed.

The most notable absence from the NES soundtrack is the Defender of the Crown theme, which appeared in a pre-titles gag where the Stooges end up in the wrong game. Because the NES rights to Defender of the Crown were owned by Konami rather than Activision, who published this game, the gag instead has the Stooges ending up in another Activision game, Ghostbusters II (NES); the Ghostbusters theme is also absent, presumably because they didn't want to license it just for a short cutscene.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Programmer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Three Stooges Theme	Misha Bakeleinikoff	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:19		Download
02	Three Blind Mice	Traditional	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:16		Download
03	Haunted House	Unknown	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:36		Download
04	Broken Hearts theme	Theodore Moses-Tobani	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:36		Download
05	Let's Scram theme	Unknown	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:10		Download
06	Fanfare sting	David Thiel	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:06		Download
07	Fanfare sting 2	David Thiel	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:03		Download
08	Mozart's Sonata in C	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:48		Download
09	Interlude	Charley Chase	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:35		Download
10	Pop Goes the Weasel	Traditional	Gavan Anderson	Gregg Barnett	0:50		Download

Credits

• Ripper: N/A
• Recorder: Doommaster1994
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Misha Bakeleinikoff
  • Not Credited Composer: Theodore Moses-Tobani
  • Not Credited Composer: David Thiel
  • Not Credited Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Not Credited Composer: Charley Chase
  • Not Credited Composer: Traditional
  • Not Credited Arranger: Gavan Anderson
  • Not Credited Programmer: Gregg Barnett

(Source: Verification from composer; game lacks credits.)

The game does not have credits, but Gavan has verified working on the game's soundtrack.

Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.

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Releases

USA Title: The Three Stooges Platform: NES Released: 1989-10-?? Publisher: Activision

Links

View The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges in Brides is Brides
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The Three Stooges: Treasure Hunt Hijinks
Notable Songs	Defender of the Crown
Notable Personnel	David Zabriskie • Larry Garner • Gavan Anderson
Notable Companies	Cinemaware