Garfield: Caught in the Act

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Garfield: Caught in the Act

System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear, Windows PC

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega Interactive,

Novotrade

Point of View

Sound driver:

GEMS

Genre: Action

Release	Date	Code

US	1995	2560
EU	1995-11	2560-50
BR	199x	077290
US	1995	85023
US (Expert Software)	199x	T-6803-01

ESRB

ELSPA

OFLC

Tectoy

Garfield: Caught in the Act is a platformer game starring the characters from the Garfield comic series. It was released for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear 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 in TV Land was planned, but scrapped, though the name was still used in some later re-releases.

Story

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

The original Mega Drive game features six levels. Sega Channel subscribers could download Garfield: The Lost Levels, that featured 3 different levels.

The Game Gear version includes eight levels, two of which appear in the Lost Levels. There is only one type of bonus stage (accessed by finding an icon of Arlene's face in each level), in which you try to wreck everything in Jon's living room within a time limit to get an extra life. Garfield does not have different outfits in each level, and the attacks are the same in all levels (his close-range is a punch, and the projectile are stones). There are no invincibility items. In the between-level segments, you do not take damage from the obstacles; instead, they teleport you back to the start of that segment.

In the PC, there is a new level, Alien Landscape, and the Mega Drive levels are arranged in a different order.

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: Michaeline 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

Magazine articles

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

Promotional material

Mega Drive and Game Gear US print advert
GameGear ES PrintAd 1995-12.jpg

Game Gear ES print advert

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

60

^[3]

Consoles + (FR)

75

^[4]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

60

^[5]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)

60

^[6]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6 (RU)

70

^[7]

GameFan (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[8]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

55

^[9]

GamePro (DE)

47

^[10]

Gamers (DE)

47

^[11]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

58

^[12]

Hobby Consolas (ES)

PAL

77

^[13]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

65

^[14]

Mega Fun (DE)

PAL

54

^[15]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

67

^[1]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

70

^[16]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

85

^[17]

Svet Igara (YU)

85

^[18]

Sega Saturn Magazine (UK)

PAL

67

^[19]

Todo Sega (ES)

81

^[20]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

79

^[21]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

59

^[22]

	67
Based on 21 reviews

Garfield: Caught in the Act

Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, EU
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Mega Drive, AU
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Mega Drive, BR
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Game Gear version

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Garfield: Caught in the Act

Game Gear, US
Cover
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Game Gear, EU
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Game Gear, BR
Cover

PC version

PC, US
Cover

PC, US (Expert Software)
Cover
Disc

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↑ File:SSM_UK_02.pdf, page 90
↑ 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
↑ 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
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "December 1995" (UK; 1995-11-24), page 90
↑ 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
↑ File:MeanMachinesSega39UK.pdf, page 79

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[:File:SSM_UK_02.pdf_p90-2] File:SSM_UK_02.pdf, page 90

[3] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 84

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_048.pdf_p102-4] Consoles +, "Novembre 1995" (FR; 1995-1x-xx), page 102

[:File:EGM_US_076.pdf_p44-5] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 44

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

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

[:File:GameFan_US_0401.pdf_p22-8] GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 1: January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 22

[:File:GamePro_US_077.pdf_p90-9] GamePro, "December 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 90

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

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

[:File:GameInformer_US_031.pdf_p24-12] Game Informer, "November 1995" (US; 1995-1x-xx), page 24

[:File:HobbyConsolas_ES_049.pdf_p108-13] Hobby Consolas, "Octubre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 108

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_1995-11.pdf_p79-14] MAN!AC, "11/95" (DE; 1995-10-11), page 79

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1995-11.pdf_p77-15] Mega Fun, "11/95" (DE; 1995-10-18), page 77

[:File:SegaPower_UK_75.pdf_p61-16] Sega Power, "Christmas 1995" (UK; 1995-12-21), page 61

[:File:SegaPro_UK_53.pdf_p40-17] Sega Pro, "January 1996" (UK; 1995-11-30), page 40

[:File:SvetIgara_YU_14.pdf_p62-18] Svet Igara, "Jun 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 62

[:File:SSM_UK_02.pdf_p90-19] Sega Saturn Magazine, "December 1995" (UK; 1995-11-24), page 90

[:File:TodoSega_ES_31.pdf_p48-20] Todo Sega, "Octubre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 48

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

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1995-12.pdf_p74-22] Video Games, "12/95" (DE; 1995-11-21), page 74

[:File:MeanMachinesSega39UK.pdf_p79-23] File:MeanMachinesSega39UK.pdf, page 79

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Garfield: Caught in the Act

From Sega Retro

Contents

Story

Gameplay

Production credits

Mega Drive version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Game Gear version

PC version