This game fascinates me for two reasons.
1. This game came packaged with my Sega Genesis and is therefore the first video game I ever owned. They sold Sega Genesis consoles with a Garfield game packaged in.
2. There are lost levels for this game that are considered lost media because, while they were cut from the game, they were made available through the Sega Channel, so there are people with a memory of a Garfield viking level or a Robin Hood level that are just plain unavailable because the levels disappear off the console after the Sega Channel connection is lost. The only way these levels will be found is if a developer who worked on the game actually releases the ROM of these levels. There is Sega Genesis Garfield Lost Media. There is a dedicated effort to finding Garfield video game levels.
As for the actual game, it may be kinda jank and it may have took me too many years to figure out how to beat the Count Slobbula boss (which, to be fair on younger me, is a bullshit boss to start the game on and doesn't tell you about the sunlight thing at all), but I have a soft spot for this game that could either be the result of its two-hit combo of nostalgia and urban legend status or because I just really dig this game's general vibe. It helps that Garfield actually does the whole "trapped in a TV and fighting through different movie genres" plot pretty well, and did it a couple years before Gex even existed.
1. This game came packaged with my Sega Genesis and is therefore the first video game I ever owned. They sold Sega Genesis consoles with a Garfield game packaged in.
2. There are lost levels for this game that are considered lost media because, while they were cut from the game, they were made available through the Sega Channel, so there are people with a memory of a Garfield viking level or a Robin Hood level that are just plain unavailable because the levels disappear off the console after the Sega Channel connection is lost. The only way these levels will be found is if a developer who worked on the game actually releases the ROM of these levels. There is Sega Genesis Garfield Lost Media. There is a dedicated effort to finding Garfield video game levels.
As for the actual game, it may be kinda jank and it may have took me too many years to figure out how to beat the Count Slobbula boss (which, to be fair on younger me, is a bullshit boss to start the game on and doesn't tell you about the sunlight thing at all), but I have a soft spot for this game that could either be the result of its two-hit combo of nostalgia and urban legend status or because I just really dig this game's general vibe. It helps that Garfield actually does the whole "trapped in a TV and fighting through different movie genres" plot pretty well, and did it a couple years before Gex even existed.