Garfield: Caught in the Act

For the Sega Game Gear game, see Garfield: Caught in the Act (Game Gear).

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Mega Drive
Windows PC

Garfield: Caught in the Act

System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Windows PC

Publisher: Sega

Sega Entertainment Inc.

Developer:

Sega InterActive

Point of View

Supporting companies: Sega of America, Waterman Designs (co-designer)

Distributor:

Ecofilmes (PT)

Sega-Ozisoft (AU)

Tec Toy (BR)

Consumer Electronics (ZA)

Sega of America (US)

Expert Software (US, rerelease)

Licensor: Paws, Inc.

Sound driver:

GEMS

Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1995-11^[1]		1556
US ▼ (Sega Channel)	199x	SUBsub
EU	1995-12^[2]		1556-50
PT	199x		MDJ1556
UK	1995-12^[2]		1556-50
SE (Rental)	199x
AU	1995		FGAR02SMC
BR	199x		046990
ZA	199x
US	1997		85023
US (Expert Software)	1997-09^[3]	$19.9919.99^[3]	T-6803-01

Garfield: Caught in the Act is a platform game starring the characters from the Garfield comic series. It was released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1995, and was brought to Windows in 1996 as a stand-alone title as well as through the Sonic & Garfield Pack.

A port to the Sega 32X under the title of Garfield: Garfield in TV land! was planned, but scrapped. The name was still used in the packaging of the initial PC release, even though the game itself retains the original title.

Story

Introduction

Odie scares Garfield while he is watching television, and he ends up falling on the television. In a rushed effort to repair the television before Jon catches them, Garfield and Odie attempt to put the banged up and broken pieces together. They did actually put something together, but it was far from being a real television. As Garfield throws away the spare pieces, they become an electronic monster, the Glitch. The Glitch transports Garfield into the television. Now he must defeat the Glitch and make his way out.

Gameplay

Hub level

The game is a platformer played as the cartoon cat Garfield, who is trapped in his TV. There is a hub level inside the TV that Garfield enters before each level. It contains a doorway to the next level. Garfield moves with and , crouches with , and jumps with . He pushes some objects by moving into them and grabs onto ledges by jumping near them. He is equipped with a melee weapon that he swings with . This weapon can be used an unlimited number of times to attack enemies in close range. He also has a projectile weapon that he throws with . These are limited in supply. Garfield's appearance is themed to each level, which includes how his weapons look, but Garfield and his weapons behave identically regardless of the level. In some levels, he enters passageways with when standing on front of them.

Garfield has ten health points (indicated by a TV set in the corner of the screen). He loses a health point whenever he takes damage from an enemy or a hazard, and he loses a life and restarts the level if he loses all of his health points. The game ends if the player runs out of lives, but it can be continued if the player has continues remaining. There is also a password system for continuing.

There are two difficulty levels, Kitty and Normal, which are identical except that Kitty difficulty adds arrows to the levels that point in the right direction or toward important objects.

The original Mega Drive game features six levels. Sega Channel subscribers could download Garfield: The Lost Levels, which featured three additional levels. One of these levels, Alien Landscape, appears in the PC version of the game, and the remaining two levels, Bonehead the Barbarian and Slobbin Hood, appear in the Game Gear version.

Items

	Pizza
	Restores some health points to Garfield.
	Hamburger
	Restores some health points to Garfield.
	Ammunition
	Increases Garfield's supply of projectile weapons by 2.
	Coffee Mug
	Renders Garfield temporarily invincible.
	Pooky
	Garfield's teddy bear, which acts as a continue marker where he revives after losing a life.
	Mallet Key
	Unlocks a bonus level to be played after the current level is completed.
	Garfield
	Gives the player an extra life.
	TV Remote
	Goal that transports Garfield out of the level.

Levels

The level order for the Mega Drive version is: Count Slobula's Castle, Revenge of Orangebeard, Cave Cat 3,000,000 B.C., the Curse of Cleofatra, and Season Finale.

The level order for the PC version is: Cave Cat 3,000,000 B.C., the Curse of Cleofatra, Count Slobula's Castle, Revenge of Orangebeard, Catsablanca, Alien Landscape, and Season Finale.

	Count Slobula's Castle

	Revenge of Orangebeard
	Password:

	Cave Cat 3,000,000 B.C.
	Password:

	Catsablanca
	Password:

	The Curse of Cleofatra
	Password:

	Alien Landscape
	Password:
	The level is exclusive to the PC version and Garfield: The Lost Levels. It has no boss encounter.
	Season Finale

Bonus Levels

	Whack-a-Mole
	This is a whack-a-mole game played if the player finds a Mallet Key item in the preceding level. It can also be played from the options menu without playing the main game. The goal is to hit the characters that pop out of each hole before they go back in the hole. Each hole corresponds to a button on the Mega Drive's control pad: , , and in the top row and , , and for the bottom row. If the player does not have a Six Button Control Pad, +, +, and + substitute for the top row. The player is a shown a character at the beginning that must not be hit; the bonus level ends if the player hits this character or fails to hit another character. The player is not punished for hitting a space with no character. Occasionally, one of the letters comprising GARFIELD appears, and if the player hits all of these letters, the game awards an extra continue.
	Commercial Break
	This bonus level is played after each level. Garfield flies through a tunnel and must collect a certain number of Pookies before the tunnel ends for an extra life or a continue (the number required increases as the game goes on). Garfield moves using the D-Pad. Coffee mugs boost Garfield's speed, while blue energy balls slow him.

History

Development

Main article: Garfield: Caught in the Act/Development.

Production credits

Mega Drive version

Sega Interactive Development

Lead Programmer: Michael Fernie
Lead Artists: Michael Chung, Art Wong
Programmers: Kevin Burley, Ala D. Diaz, John LaSalvia, Pravin Wagh
Artists: Robert Barrett, Kathleen Bruno, Sandra B. Christensen, Petra Evers, Maureen Kringen, Michael Tamura, Rob Titus
Music Director: Tristan des Prés
Music: Tristan des Prés, Dwight Stone, Jeffrey Glenn Tveraas
Sound Effects: David Delia, Jeffrey Glenn Tveraas
Audio Programmer: James Dobson
Project Managers: David Brooks, Frank Hsu
Special Thanks: Carmen Bayacal, Rachel Wong Coleman, Kenneth C. Dullea III, Jack Loh, Nancy Nakamoto, Rodney Nakamoto

Sega of America

Original Design: Rhonda Van, Sega Interactive, Waterman Designs
Additional Design: PAWS, Sega of America
Producers: Eric Quakenbush, Rhonda Van
Assistant Producers: Bill Person, Erik Wahlberg
Executive Producer: Michael Latham
Product Manager: Lisa Best Wilson
Marketing: Eric Dunstan, Clint Dyer
Licensing: Michealene Cristini Risley
Lead Testers: John Amirkhan, Richie Hideshima
Assistant Lead Testers: Sako Bezdjian, Neil Musser, Mark Subotnick, Caroline Trujillo
Testers: Mike Borg, Joseph M. Damon, Yancey Gordon, Tai Huyah, Matthew Ironside, Heather Meigs, Camille Morris, Raul Orozco, Jeff Sanders, W. Scott Snyder, Nicole Tatem, Don Tica, Eugene R. Valenzuela, Dana Waller
Manual: James Cabral, Mike Yoffie
Thanks: Joyce Takakura
Special Thanks: Mark Acey, Jim Davis, Jill Hahn, Glenn Zimmerman, PAWS

Source:

In-game credits^[4]

Windows PC version

POV

Game Engine: Kevin Burley
Game Conversion: Kevin Burley
Windows Shell: Mike Terlecki

Sega of America

Executive Producer: Matt Wolf
Producer: Scott Hawkins
Product Manager: Jill Braff
Lead Testers: Lloyd Kinoshita, Abe Navarro
Assistant Lead Testers: Fernando Valderrama, Ferdinand Villar
Testers: Jason Cordero, Arnold Feener, Aaron Hommes, Nicole Tatem, Mark McCunney, Kam Ralston, John Jansen, Amy Albertson, Rob Prideaux, Jay Mijares, Fred Selker, Pedro Ponce, Tricia Gray, Kyle Bingo, Karen Brown, Ian McGuinness, Christina Hurley, Jeffrey Violan, Dennis Lee, Nicolas Azizian
Special Thanks: Shinobu Toyoda, Bill White, Greg Suarez, Eileen Noguchi, J Tony Smith, Victor Caldwell, Jeff Goodwin, Geraldine Dessimoz, Kristi Walker, Jeanne Ash, John Hurst, Arvin Carlson, Scot Allen, Brandee Broadhurst, Eileen Sacman, Eric Smith, Paul Stathacopoulos, Bob Schonfisch

Sega InterActive Development Divison

Lead Progammer: Michael Fernie
Lead Artist: Mike Chung, Art Wong
Programmers: Kevin Burley, Ala Diaz, John Lasalvia, Pravin Wagh
Artists: Kathleen Bruno, Robert Barrett, Sandy Christensen, Maureen Kringen, Michael Tamura, Rob Titus, Petra Evers
Music Director: Tristan Des Pres
Music: Jeffrye Tveraas, Dwight Stone
Sound Effects: Jeffrye Tveraas, Dave Delia
Audio Programming: Jim Dobson
Project Management: David Brooks

Sega of America

Executive Producer: Michael Latham
Producers: Rhonda Van, Eric Quakenbush
Assistant Producers: Bill Person, Eric Wahlberg
Original Design: Waterman Designs, Sega InterActive
Additional Design: Sega of America, Paws, Inc.
Product Manager: Lisa Best Wilson
Marketing: Clint Dyer, Eric Dunstan, Michealene Cristini Risley
Lead Testers: Richie Hideshima, John Amirkhan
Asst. Lead Testers: Mark Subotnick, Sako Bezdjian, Caroline Trujillo, Neil Musser
Testers: Joe Damon, Heather Meigs, Matt Ironside, Mike Borg, Nicole Tatem, Raul Orozco, Don Tica, Eugene Valenzuela, Yancey Gordon, Scott Snyder, Camille Morris, Jeff Sanders, Dana Waller, Tai Huyah

Special Thanks

Thanks To: Carmen Bayacal, Joyce Takakura, Jack Loh, Rachel Coleman, Ken Dullea, Rod Nakamoto, Nancy Nakamoto
Special Thanks To: Jim Davis, Jill Hahn, Glenn Zimmerman, Mark Acey and all the folks at Paws

Source:

In-game credits

SEGA ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Executive Producer: Matt Wolf
Producer: Scott Hawkins
Product Managers: Eileen Noguchi, Jill Braff
Lead Testers: Lloyd Kinoshita, Abe Navarro
Assistant Lead Testers: Fernando Valderrama, Ferdinand Villar
Testers: Amy Albertson, Nicolas Azizian, Kyle Bingo, Doug Broadhurst, Karen Brown, Jason Cordero, Arnold Feener, Tricia Gray, Aaron Hommes, Christina Hurley, John Jansen, Len Jung, Dennis Lee, Mark McCunney, Ian McGuinness, Jay Mijares, Pedro Ponce, Rob Prideaux, Kam Ralston, Fred Selker, Nicole Tatem, Jeffrey Violan
Special Thanks: Shinobu Toyoda, Greg Suarez, Jeannie Ash, Kristi Walker, John Hurst, Toni Werner, Arvin Carlson, Bob Schonfisch, Eileen Sacman, Scott Allen, Carol Ann Hanshaw

POINT OF VIEW

PC Conversion: Kevin Burley
Windows Code: Kevin Burley, Mike Terlecki
Producer: Mark Nausha

Source:

US manual^[5]

Magazine articles

Main article: Garfield: Caught in the Act/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Mega Drive US print advert

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

(RU)

60

^[6]

(FR)

75

^[7]

(US)

NTSC-U

60

^[8]

(RU)

60

^[9]

(RU)

70

^[10]

(US)

NTSC-U

80

^[11]

(US)

NTSC-U

55

^[12]

(DE)

47

^[13]

(DE)

47

^[14]

(US)

NTSC-U

58

^[15]

(ES)

PAL

77

^[16]

(DE)

PAL

65

^[17]

(DE)

PAL

54

^[18]

(UK)

67

^[19]

(UK)

PAL

70

^[20]

(UK)

PAL

85

^[21]

(YU)

85

^[22]

(UK)

PAL

67

^[2]

(ES)

81

^[23]

(RU)

79

^[24]

(DE)

PAL

59

^[25]

	67
Based on 21 reviews

Garfield: Caught in the Act

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, PT
Cover
Cart Manual EU Manual

Mega Drive, SE (Rental)

Mega Drive, GR (Zegetron)

Mega Drive, AU
Cover

Mega Drive, BR
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, ZA
Cover
Cart

PC version

PC, US
Cover
Manual

PC, US (Expert Software)
Cover
Disc Jewel Case

PC, US (Expert Software; alt)

Technical information

Main article: Garfield: Caught in the Act/Technical information.

References

↑ File:6-Pak MD US Manual.pdf, page 72
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Sega Saturn Magazine, "December 1995" (UK; 1995-11-24), page 90
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Press release: 1997-06-20: Sega chooses Expert Software for PC distribution agreement
↑ File:Garfield Caught in the Act MD credits.pdf
↑ File:GCitA PC US Manual.pdf, page 10
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 84
↑ Consoles +, "Novembre 1995" (FR; 1995-1x-xx), page 102
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 44
↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 317
↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 105
↑ GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 1: January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 22
↑ GamePro, "December 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 90
↑ GamePro, "November 1995" (DE; 1995-10-04), page 58
↑ Gamers, "November 1995" (DE; 1995-10-11), page 39
↑ Game Informer, "November 1995" (US; 1995-1x-xx), page 24
↑ Hobby Consolas, "Octubre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 108
↑ MAN!AC, "11/95" (DE; 1995-10-11), page 79
↑ Mega Fun, "11/95" (DE; 1995-10-18), page 77
↑ Mean Machines Sega, "January 1996" (UK; 1995-11-xx), page 75
↑ Sega Power, "Christmas 1995" (UK; 1995-12-21), page 61
↑ Sega Pro, "January 1996" (UK; 1995-11-30), page 40
↑ Svet Igara, "Jun 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 62
↑ Todo Sega, "Octubre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 48
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 77
↑ Video Games, "12/95" (DE; 1995-11-21), page 74

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Garfield games for Sega systems
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[:File:6-Pak_MD_US_Manual.pdf_p72-1] File:6-Pak MD US Manual.pdf, page 72

[:File:SSM_UK_02.pdf_p90-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Sega Saturn Magazine, "December 1995" (UK; 1995-11-24), page 90

[Press_release:_1997-06-20:_Sega_chooses_Expert_Software_for_PC_distribution_agreement-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Press release: 1997-06-20: Sega chooses Expert Software for PC distribution agreement

[:File:Garfield_Caught_in_the_Act_MD_credits.pdf_p-4] File:Garfield Caught in the Act MD credits.pdf

[:File:GCitA_PC_US_Manual.pdf_p10-5] File:GCitA PC US Manual.pdf, page 10

[6] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 84

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_048.pdf_p102-7] Consoles +, "Novembre 1995" (FR; 1995-1x-xx), page 102

[:File:EGM_US_076.pdf_p44-8] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 44

[9] Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 317

[10] Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 105

[:File:GameFan_US_0401.pdf_p22-11] GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 1: January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 22

[:File:GamePro_US_077.pdf_p90-12] GamePro, "December 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 90

[:File:GamePro_DE_1995-11.pdf_p58-13] GamePro, "November 1995" (DE; 1995-10-04), page 58

[:File:Gamers_DE_1995-11.pdf_p39-14] Gamers, "November 1995" (DE; 1995-10-11), page 39

[:File:GameInformer_US_031.pdf_p24-15] Game Informer, "November 1995" (US; 1995-1x-xx), page 24

[:File:HobbyConsolas_ES_049.pdf_p108-16] Hobby Consolas, "Octubre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 108

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_1995-11.pdf_p79-17] MAN!AC, "11/95" (DE; 1995-10-11), page 79

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1995-11.pdf_p77-18] Mega Fun, "11/95" (DE; 1995-10-18), page 77

[:File:MeanMachinesSega39UK.pdf_p75-19] Mean Machines Sega, "January 1996" (UK; 1995-11-xx), page 75

[:File:SegaPower_UK_75.pdf_p61-20] Sega Power, "Christmas 1995" (UK; 1995-12-21), page 61

[:File:SegaPro_UK_53.pdf_p40-21] Sega Pro, "January 1996" (UK; 1995-11-30), page 40

[:File:SvetIgara_YU_14.pdf_p62-22] Svet Igara, "Jun 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 62

[:File:TodoSega_ES_31.pdf_p48-23] Todo Sega, "Octubre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 48

[24] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 77

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1995-12.pdf_p74-25] Video Games, "12/95" (DE; 1995-11-21), page 74

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Garfield: Caught in the Act

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Contents

Story

Gameplay

Items

Levels

Bonus Levels

History

Development

Production credits

Mega Drive version

Windows PC version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

PC version

Technical information

References