“Y’know there’s two video games where you control a character that uses a handy-vac as their primary tool” Clearly you forgot about Blinx: The Time Sweeper. Also a cat funnily enough
not to mention one of the gadgets that Robin uses in the Lego Batman / Lego DC games is basically a handy-vac that sucks up Lego pieces. Batman gets all the cool gadget suits and Robin gets magnet shoes, a handy-vac and a giant hamster ball.
Fun fact about the PS2 game, Garfield's one-liners are actually only present on the English version. If you choose any other language, they will just show up as text which goes to show how much they cared
Fun fact, before Jim Davis wrote Garfield, he wrote this comic strip about an ant. Everyone told him it was so unfunny that he ended the strip by having the ant squished.
6:25 It was changed due to Capcom having exclusive Disney rights for the Nintendo platforms in the US until 1993-4 so no other company could release Disney games in the US
@@crackerjack0349 Eh, unless it ends with Garfield tearfully belting out "I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so scared!", it doesn't seem as interesting as Odie's previous owner being decapitated.
That "Garfield & Friends" show was on tv way into the 90s as reruns, so that's why he got a Genesis game. He was also all over school stuff so you really couldn't escape him lmao I actually remember watching and liking the show, won't lie
I was BIG into Garfield as a kid. I got the DS version of Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties for my birthday and completed it 100%. Twice. And yo, does anyone remember that Garfield browser game with the haunted house? I spent hours on that thing! And that one site with all those Garfield-branded classic board games? I think I've seen someone make a video on the browser games before... if it was you, Austin, I had a major brain fart.
This has haunted me for 4 years. 4 long years. As I mention at the end of the video, I'll be running a marathon Charity Stream on the 18th of July in support of EqualityNow! More details will be coming soon, but you can follow me on twitch to watch the stream. www.twitch.tv/austineruption EDIT - So the shirt that I show on screen at 1:20 is actually by an artist called Little Tunny! You can check out their art here! twitter.com/itslittletunny/status/1198662819127930880?lang=en
@MultiTarded It's almost like the majority of human beings just, ya know, care about the wellbeing and rights of other people. Crazy, right? And not sure what equality has to do with politics...
2004 Garfield was released on PC here in Czech Republic, dubbed with all local Garfield voice actors, especially Vladimír Čech for Garfield... which was a saving grace for this game, for local critics and people, including me :3 I still got the CD! Also... the PC version has A LOT of unused sound clips and data based on RenderWare... it could've been much more than a vaccuuming collectathon. And with much more plentiful and more brutal one-liners. Still, I don't regret my kiddom being spent on this game. It was the only game that didn't require me to insert the CD... I was forbidden to search in my dad's forbidden CD collection when I was 6 :P Neat job reviewing it all. Thank you, Austin, for feeding us, past Garfield fans, with your opinion :3
Jim Davis didn't design Garfield to be funny, he was designed to be relatable. He never relies on language puns or anything that wouldn't translate to another language well. There's a whole fascinating video over on "today I found out." I also highly recommend the Ronald McDonald video over there. You can't make that stuff up.
@@Dinker27Here is some lore- Lorenzo Music also voiced Peter Venkman in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, but they were sued by Bill Murray for infringing on his likeness. Then, Bill Murray, who played Peter Venkman, went on to voice Garfield in a shitty movie that he didnt even want to do
4:36 So about that picture. This was a bluescreen made by my brother H. R. Hofman a.k.a F11keyboard so if you want to know who made it just credit him because we are so excited over this bump. Great video btw.
The Bioshock activation server is no longer online so you CANNOT install the game normally anymore if you have the disc version. I know because I tried to reinstall it last year and had to download a cracked EXE to make it work.
Ayyyy, Garfield Caught in the Act! That game's a baller with a great soundtrack. I remember reading a long time ago how Garfield's sprites were hand-drawn by real animators before being meticulously converted to pixel art and that always seemed like the coolest shit to me as a kid. Glad you didn't talk about the Sega CD port, though. It's, uh... not good.
I used to have a copy of the Garfield cleaning game that wouldn't load properly so I couldn't get into the first door, and to my little child mind, used to a very limited games library and replaying every game a bunch of times, this Garfield ass game was a great shame. So after years of waking in the night screaming, I can't for the life of me say why but the lord granted me this one thing and my copy of Garfield was magically repaired. I can't begin to describe the visceral pleasure of getting a key and unlocking a new room after spending years running around that kitchen to the theme song of purgatory, hiding from that soulless 4th-dimensional dog being, knowing that I could spend infinity sucking up items and opening drawers and finding puzzle pieces, but my unavoidable fate of that loading screen would still be waiting. Anyway that game is shit but I have some deep long hidden emotion to process.
I love how poetic & darkly-comical you put the last half.Talking about, "The visceral pleasure of getting a key and unlocking a new room after spending years running around that kitchen to the theme song of Purgatory" &,really,all the other words /after that/,thru,"still be waiting". That whole section was quite funny. Also,when you said that the game caused U to wake "in the night screaming",for years. Picturing that,made it funny. Considering,that it's over a damaged-portion of the disc & the result,that caused that... xD Truly funny,yet poetic. Like I 1st said. Glad U posted this,VERY worthwhile 2 read! :D -Peace :)
but Remastered also has a ton of glitches that ruin the graphics and atmosphere of the game plus they took out the EAX 4.0 ambient sound. The original btw was fixed to have no install limits. I believe they removed SecuROM (or whatever they were using) when that "anti-tamper" software was becoming obsolete.
I recently played the PS2 Garfield game for my channel and MY GOD. The back of the box looked okay. I thought I was getting a bland 3D platformer maybe... I was wrong. When that background music kicked in in your video I think I experienced some kind of PTSD.
I had Caught in the Act on the PC. I remember it took me awhile to beat when I was 7 or 8, but I enjoyed it a lot. The bizarre glitch monster was one of my favorite parts just for how left-field it was XD
Garfield: Lasagna World Tour was my first video game cuz I grew up in the Great Recession and they were selling PS2s for cheap at my local GameStop back when this game was brand new. It was so disappointing that we returned it and got Crash of the Titans, my introduction to the Crash Bandicoot series
I had Mad About Cats for PC as a kid and I adored it. It's super simple, a mini game "collection" (there's like 3?) with world food and wild cat trivia, but its a good distraction for a kid. If you wanna learn about African sand cats and then play a breakout clone, it's your game
I used to be OBSESSED with Lasagna Cat as a kid, comic compilations, little stuffed animals with suckers on the hands and feet you name it I had it. I regret nothing.
I think the old TV specials and the old TV show, "Garfield and Friends," had A LOT to do with the enduring popularity of the character. The specials and series were both solid and entertaining, all the characters were perfectly cast, the stories and humor were well-done, and their production values were enough to stand the test of time. So that's my take. Garfield is skating by on the success of his old TV adaptations that helped solidify him.
@@robertanderson9447 Yep! A lot of people today either don't remember or weren't there experience it, but Garfield had a strong first 20 years of existence, give or take. And going back to the perfect casting thing, the late great Lorenzo Music, was just such a perfect voice for Garfield. His performance did so much to make that fat orange cat an enduring character in his animated appearances. I'm convinced that losing Lorenzo Music was a big part of what caused Garfield to fall out of favor in pop culture. They've just never found a voice actor who fit the role even half as well after that. Heh. Don't ever let anyone tell you voice actors are all interchangeable, eh?
I disagree with what you said about the main joke of Garfield as well as the comic's appeal is that he's fat. Garfield was funny because a lot of people could relate to him, and the comics just had such a witty, charming sense of humor. I never laughed at the comics because "Haha, he's fat."
5:33 so a game where you play as The Ghostbuster that had the Same VA as Garfield which later the Actor playing that role in the Movies also Played Garfield.
When I was a kid growing up in the early-mid 2000s, I had a GBA SP. I had Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Super Mario World, and Castlevania: COTM, but no other big-name games, really. My decent-sized collection of licensed shovelware included Garfield and His 9 Lives (and Cartoon Network Racing, funny enough) and...yeah. As a kid, anyway, it was pretty solid. Looking back, it’s more of a crapshoot-some levels are really bland compared to others, but the one thing worth mentioning is the music. For whatever reason, the Up A Tree stage song is almost too good for the game it’s used in, and for years was the only thing I remembered from the game until I finally got nostalgic enough to do some digging. It’s a relief to see how lucky I was to get one of the only okay installments in this ill-fated franchise.
I'm more curious if anyone remebers Power Piggs of the Dark Ages for the SNES, a spin-off (?) of the alter ego of Orson the Pig, one of the Orson's Farm characters from the Garfield and Friends cartoon. I swear no one ever talks about that game, if they even remember it!
2 start this comment,I have 2 say that I ended-up finding myself going on an early-NES-age nostalgia trip. So,warning ahead 4 that... Also,if your name is,or you are friends/similar w/ "Jeff Thiele" from Cape Girardeau,Missouri. There's a personal-msg @the VERY bottom.Please read.Would mean a lot 2 me... Now then,2 directly reply 2 U, "HallowedJes"(apologies,srry,I have no other way 2 contact this old friend of mine,anymore)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I remember hearing/reading about the game too! It was mentioned in some Nintendo Power issue(s),that I have in storage somewhere. I /think/ this was around the same time of the "Boogerman" review(s) & maybe even some of the Nicktoon games??? It's kinda hard 2 recall this particular game,but a name like that is pretty-much impossible 2 forget... ;) Also,I have EXCELLENT long-term memory skills & recall /most/ of my gaming-related life(unless,it's in the last few yrs. as my shorter-term is not very good,really)... Anyway,I read the mags almost /constantly/(I was always looking forward to what was coming-out & into what I should rent next,which I did a LOT of). Also,I was always a "Hard-Core Gamer",until,the PS4-era(I'm 1 of those /still/ saving-up for a PS4). Which,is bcuz I've been on a nostalgia-trip the last few years & have been more concerned w/ finally owning all the stuff I either wanted/rented. Or,had stolen from me,when younger(rare NES games,that is)... If it weren't for my initially trying to get CIB whenever-possible,I might've not gone into debt so bad. But,I was trying to re-capture that magical-feeling of actually OWNING the game,the /right/ way... That is,in the NES-era,the only reasons U didn't have the instructions & box. Was,U either didn't take care of your stuff. Or,U either stole it from somebody or a store. Or,if it was instructions,it was a rental & someone had lost/kept them(jerks)... I remember,how at the very 1st place I /ever/ rented from,they even got into the habit of charging ppl just 2 rent the instructions! It was like $4 or $5,to do so & this was about 1990,or 1991... I'll likely never forget this. Because,I remember how bad I tried to convince my mother(who,was w/ me,at the time),to agree to it(she didn't). As,I always thought I needed them,to keep from getting-stuck in the game(ESPECIALLY,w/ NES games). Which,is because it /had/ happened,several times before w/ rental games & it kept me from figuring-out what to do(I'll never forget 2 games in particular,that I got confused by). Because,there were no instructions the 1st time I rented them. But,when going to rent a 2nd time,someone had /finally/ returned them. Or,the location just replaced them... The 1st,was that infamous NES "Ghost Busters" game,every1 familiar w/ bad licensed games,will probably at least have heard of... The 1st time I played it,I was absolutely CLUELESS what I was supposed to do. Just like most gamers,who go into it blind(there's an excellent AVGN vid,that backs my statement up)... Somehow,I managed to stumble into the driving-sequence after awhile & even remember thinking it was kind-of enjoyable. But,mainly,I liked the "look" of the main game-screen(I thought it was some kind-of imitation Pac-Man game that was just hard 2 play). As,I was only about 5 or 6(it was among the very 1st NES games I ever played)& it was more about being amazing by all the graphics,I think. That,& at the time,I thought if I tried hard enough,I could figure-out ANY game. I remember thinking,that if I can figure-out how to land on the aircraft-carrier,in "Top Gun". Then,I should be able 2 figure-out what to do here(I was REALLY good at /certain/ games,for a 5-6 yr. old). Because,I was gamer as soon as it would have been possible to play them. As,there was a "Coleco-Vision" w/ 3 games,already in the house,before my birth(my dad bought it,but not sure why. Since,the only game he says he ever remembered liking was "Astro-Smash")... Anyway,just 2 complete the story of my /actual/ 1st console(which it really might as well count as mine. As,my Dad never played it,that I ever saw). I "inherited",if U prefer,"Donkey Kong","Frogger",& "Sub-Roc". But,never had any other games 2 play on it,EVER Back to that Ghost Busters game,tho... Eventually,I figured-out how to reach the "street-level" screens. But,don't remember much about it. So,I probably didn't see it very-much... Now,for the last part of my story,the 2nd game I referred to earlier,that I was /totally/ confused by. Due,to the lack of instructions,was "Beetlejuice"... With it being 1 of my FAV movies of my childhood,I was REALLY looking forward to this game. However,w/o the instructions,I was completely at a loss as to what to do,the 1st time I rented it. I ended-up barely playing it. Since,I couldn't even figure-out how to get past the 1st "house" area of the game(again,EXCELLENT AVGN vid will help U understand,if not familiar). Still,I thought if I only knew what to do,I could enjoy it. So,sometime later(a few weeks later,I think),I thought about /maybe/ renting it. IF,the instructions might actually be avail. this time... That is,I remember the ppl at the store I rented it from("Schnucks",if any1 from the center of the country,ever reads this),said that sometimes ppl return the instructions after awhile. So,I always had my hopes up it might get returned... Anyways,the 2nd time was better. As,I now understood what I was supposed to do. At least,more so than before. However,it was still confusing & I don't think I got very far. As,I don't recall much about the game(likely,I still couldn't tell what I was supposed to be doing to progress & may have given-up,finally). Regardless,I remember not really caring. As,I had a few more games by that time. In particular,I had a VERY good friend that lent me his NES games,quite easily. And,the 2nd time I failed 2 understand Beetlejuice,I'm pretty-sure I distracted myself w/ the games I had borrowed from my friend... Which,apologies,but I'm not sure if I ever properly Thanked him for this & more,so I MUST mention something at the end... Also,this is enough 2 talk about RE: all of... whatever I f-ing did here... xD Ummm... Hopefully,someone from the NES-era enjoys reminiscing about those days 2... But,yeah,I went on a LONG nostalgia-trip. Srry... Srry I went off on a tangent,it ultimately /sort-of/ makes sense... I think?? Anyway,it's late & I've been up a LONG time. So,I tend 2 get like this,once going-down "Early-gaming-memories Lane"... :D In my defense,I deleted a BUNCH more paragraphs that /really/ went 2 far out-of-range... So,there's /that/... :) -Peace! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now,for my personal message,long over-due to the BEST friend I knew growing-up in Cape. And,really,the 1 that had my back more than ANYONE did anywhere (no offense to the others,just true)... I'll never forget what happened last time we saw each-other & the way u defended me. Wish I could return home more often. But,it's difficult to get back,these days. Also,U weren't home last-time I was in town. So,srry I missed U dude. Hopefully,I'll be able 2 catch U next year,around Memorial Weekend,the usual time I stop-by,if U recall. Best friends 4 ever,Thanks for /everything/. You ended-up being my truest friend of anyone,EVER. I can't thank you enough for your generosity,dude. -Peace & the best-possible luck(or w/e is your equivalent,I forget,srry man)to U & everyone important to U.Hope you're well,of course. Take Care,dude(pass on my gratitude to our other friends for me too,if U would,in case I don't see any of them again,either)... Friends forever,Thanks again for EVERYTHING,SERIOUSLY :) ATTENTION: Jeff Thiele,from Cape Girardeau,Missouri: if you EVER read this,look above. I left a "memorial" of sorts,in case we never catch-up again(never know,eh?)...Best of Luck & all those kinds of sentiments(not sure what U prefer,I forget,srry dude). TakeCare always,& Peace!
"Professor Garfield" was my SHIT back in elementary school--it was a flash-based edutainment website in the early-to-mid 2000s and I fucking LIVED for it. The teacher would come in like "We're going to the Computer Lab" and I was like "FUCK YES!" Except I didn't say that because I was like, 6. Anyway, you talking about the Edutainment games at the start there brought that memory from the depths.
You should talk about the garfield scary scavenger hunt flash games. One of them has Lyman chained up in the basement of the haunted house. Very cursed.
This makes me remember that one random flash-based point-'n-click Garfield game that I used to play all the time back in the day. I have no idea if it actually holds up, but I remember loving it.
I had that Mad about Cats PC game as a kid. I don't know why but I was like, really into Garfield when I was like 8 years old. Also wow I'm in the chat at 23:42 so it proves I was also a witness to this atrocity.
Garfield Saving Arlene & Lasagna World Tour might be bit on the crappier side, but I unironically love the sh*t out of those games. Garfield scary scavenger Hunt 1 & 2 are more fun to play than they have any right to be too.
I remember this one Garfield game on Sega Genesis in which you started inside a television. I remember that game because that was my first experience with a rage quit. It was so hard it made me think about punching my Tv for the first time ever...
Just to point it out, Bill Murray was contractually obligated to be in the sequel, which is why he was in A Tale of Two Kitties. Fortunately for him the movie didn't do as well as the previous one, so he was free from having to do a third one.
I looked up Garfield on the App Store, and the first one I found was a runner (seems like the antithesis of Garfield). It also had an advertisement blurb that read “Explore stunning Mine Hole”. So,
Hey i actually played Week of Garfield A TON as a kid, it was on this portable DVD player for car rides, it came with some NES games u could play with the controller. This was a very popular thing to have for a bit, so what I'm trying to say is that I am sure there's plenty of kids in the west that played this, despite not ever releasing officially here, and that's insane
I got one of those Walmart CD game thingies as a child. All I remember is one minigame, where Garfield collected chocolate eggs from a hen in a factory. Or so. It was one of the strangest games I ever played. And the hardest. i never managed to learn the controls.
I grew up watching the original airing of Garfield and Friends and the Garfield TV specials so I'm a long time fan of the series. Although I never played any of the video games.
actually there's another game that uses the vacuum mechanic that I think was pretty good! and that was Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit for PS2, I love that game
I believe that Garfield: Mad About Cats is the one and only Garfield "game" (I know this one is more edutainment than a game per se) to feature Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. Lorenzo Music voice samples were the biggest thing Garfield: Caught in the Act was missing, which was odd considering so many of the levels were inspired by various Lorenzo Music-era Garfield prime time TV specials.
“Y’know there’s two video games where you control a character that uses a handy-vac as their primary tool”
Clearly you forgot about Blinx: The Time Sweeper. Also a cat funnily enough
not to mention one of the gadgets that Robin uses in the Lego Batman / Lego DC games is basically a handy-vac that sucks up Lego pieces.
Batman gets all the cool gadget suits and Robin gets magnet shoes, a handy-vac and a giant hamster ball.
Also . . . . Tumblepop? . . . Anyone?
Fun fact about the PS2 game, Garfield's one-liners are actually only present on the English version. If you choose any other language, they will just show up as text which goes to show how much they cared
Laziness just like garfield
6:19 Garfield x Oddie is officially canon now.
Finally.
Not the weirdest thing I've seen on the internet.
Fun Fact: Jim Davis, the Creator of Garfield, helped out a bit with Sega in the Garfield Caught in the Act Video game.
I think I heard he did all the art for Garfield's animations for the game. It's probably why he looks so accurate to the comic.
Following the "domain" he bought leads back to his YT page. Good job Eruptionman.
typed in the website, hit go.... well played austin
I half expected this to be a joke.
I’m so glad someone tried this because there was no way I was typing that URL.
I thought it would just be a "page not found" but I was glad he actually did it.
Thanks for biting the bullet. Just don't forget to wipe your search history later...
Fun fact, before Jim Davis wrote Garfield, he wrote this comic strip about an ant. Everyone told him it was so unfunny that he ended the strip by having the ant squished.
Salsa Seth is was Gnat and ending was lie made up by Davis
Gnorm Gnat was not squished. Fake gnews
Salsa Seth i don’t 100% know maybe it was plan but some What a Guy talk to Jim and say no jim you can not do that
Quinton Reviews made a video on it. And he found some of the comic pages that like no one knew existed.
Gnorm Gnat wasn't an ANT he was a GNAT fake fans >:c
6:25 It was changed due to Capcom having exclusive Disney rights for the Nintendo platforms in the US until 1993-4 so no other company could release Disney games in the US
Can't wait for the follow up video all about the weird and bizarre horror Garfield fangames.
Darn, I was hoping you'd spotlight that point-and-click Flash game where you can find Lyman's severed head!
There was also one where you gave Garfield coffee and it ended with him exploding while giving him a caffeine addiction
@@crackerjack0349 Eh, unless it ends with Garfield tearfully belting out "I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so scared!", it doesn't seem as interesting as Odie's previous owner being decapitated.
Finally someone giving some love to Garfield Caught in the Act.
"Step-garfield??"
That "Garfield & Friends" show was on tv way into the 90s as reruns, so that's why he got a Genesis game. He was also all over school stuff so you really couldn't escape him lmao
I actually remember watching and liking the show, won't lie
You forgot about garfield scary scavenger hunt and it’s sequel, this is the best game ever made
"He probably won't mention the ancient comic maker I played on the Apple II." 2:53 "Neat!"
Was that a picture of Garfield next to the text "Neon Genesis Evangelion"?!
I own a shirt that's just that.
I've seen shirts, coffee mugs, and other merchandise with that and I have no idea what's up with that
Get in the robot Garfield.
I was BIG into Garfield as a kid. I got the DS version of Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties for my birthday and completed it 100%. Twice. And yo, does anyone remember that Garfield browser game with the haunted house? I spent hours on that thing! And that one site with all those Garfield-branded classic board games? I think I've seen someone make a video on the browser games before... if it was you, Austin, I had a major brain fart.
I had one of the Garfield board games when I was a kid.
Yes! I remember those browser games especially the haunted house one! Glad to know I didn't make that website up.
This has haunted me for 4 years. 4 long years.
As I mention at the end of the video, I'll be running a marathon Charity Stream on the 18th of July in support of EqualityNow! More details will be coming soon, but you can follow me on twitch to watch the stream.
www.twitch.tv/austineruption
EDIT - So the shirt that I show on screen at 1:20 is actually by an artist called Little Tunny! You can check out their art here!
twitter.com/itslittletunny/status/1198662819127930880?lang=en
@MultiTarded It's almost like the majority of human beings just, ya know, care about the wellbeing and rights of other people. Crazy, right? And not sure what equality has to do with politics...
@MultiTarded lol
2004 Garfield was released on PC here in Czech Republic, dubbed with all local Garfield voice actors, especially Vladimír Čech for Garfield... which was a saving grace for this game, for local critics and people, including me :3 I still got the CD!
Also... the PC version has A LOT of unused sound clips and data based on RenderWare... it could've been much more than a vaccuuming collectathon. And with much more plentiful and more brutal one-liners. Still, I don't regret my kiddom being spent on this game. It was the only game that didn't require me to insert the CD... I was forbidden to search in my dad's forbidden CD collection when I was 6 :P
Neat job reviewing it all. Thank you, Austin, for feeding us, past Garfield fans, with your opinion :3
Jim Davis didn't design Garfield to be funny, he was designed to be relatable. He never relies on language puns or anything that wouldn't translate to another language well. There's a whole fascinating video over on "today I found out." I also highly recommend the Ronald McDonald video over there. You can't make that stuff up.
I hate mondays , but I sure do love Tuesdays.
Pretzel days. I like pretzel days.
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Must be a Thursday...
The domain actually leads to his YT channel. Genius!
Let's discuss the high level good taste Austin is displaying with that Makoto Niijima shirt.
Garfield, a tale of 2 kitties also had a DS port that actually was released in the US
10:16 Austin forgot about/doesn't know Blinx :(
And Piposaru 2001. The ps2 era was the vaccum era.
Garfield really sounding like Neil Breen in that Luigi's Mansion vacuum knockoff.... or maybe the other way around.
Pure breenius.
They couldn't get the original voice actor (Lorenzo Music) from the shows; he died some time ago.
@@Dinker27Here is some lore- Lorenzo Music also voiced Peter Venkman in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, but they were sued by Bill Murray for infringing on his likeness. Then, Bill Murray, who played Peter Venkman, went on to voice Garfield in a shitty movie that he didnt even want to do
@@scottydu81 How long ago was that? I remember him dying as a kid, but I'm not sure when that got shuffled around so that lore is a new addition.
@@Dinker27 I think Music did the voice for the first season of the ghostbusters cartoon
4:36 So about that picture. This was a bluescreen made by my brother H. R. Hofman a.k.a F11keyboard so if you want to know who made it just credit him because we are so excited over this bump. Great video btw.
Garfield and Friends in definitely the best part of the Garfield cannon though, especially the barnyard shorts
Hey at 1:21 - the artist's name is Little Tunny (@itslittletunny via Twitter) they're an awesome artist and you should totally check them out :D
The Bioshock activation server is no longer online so you CANNOT install the game normally anymore if you have the disc version. I know because I tried to reinstall it last year and had to download a cracked EXE to make it work.
There was a haunted house themed Garfield flash game on Friv which I remember fondly. I used to play it at school a long time ago
Why is it a good portion of these Garfield games aren't released in North America , seems pretty odd.
Maybe the license fees are higher in the US? Or if you have a more popular one at the time why not just reskin it and cash in on both.
Maybe Europe loves Garfield
The Garfield restaurant wasn’t in the US either
I'm just really glad Austin made a nod to the H.P. lovecraft Garfield stuff that was going on, it's weirdly creative
The jump in graphical quality was insane! Went from a pixely mess to actually looking like Garfield. Great video.
Ayyyy, Garfield Caught in the Act! That game's a baller with a great soundtrack. I remember reading a long time ago how Garfield's sprites were hand-drawn by real animators before being meticulously converted to pixel art and that always seemed like the coolest shit to me as a kid.
Glad you didn't talk about the Sega CD port, though. It's, uh... not good.
I used to have a copy of the Garfield cleaning game that wouldn't load properly so I couldn't get into the first door, and to my little child mind, used to a very limited games library and replaying every game a bunch of times, this Garfield ass game was a great shame. So after years of waking in the night screaming, I can't for the life of me say why but the lord granted me this one thing and my copy of Garfield was magically repaired. I can't begin to describe the visceral pleasure of getting a key and unlocking a new room after spending years running around that kitchen to the theme song of purgatory, hiding from that soulless 4th-dimensional dog being, knowing that I could spend infinity sucking up items and opening drawers and finding puzzle pieces, but my unavoidable fate of that loading screen would still be waiting. Anyway that game is shit but I have some deep long hidden emotion to process.
I love how poetic & darkly-comical you put the last half.Talking about, "The visceral pleasure of getting a key and unlocking a new room after spending years running around that kitchen to the theme song of Purgatory" &,really,all the other words /after that/,thru,"still be waiting". That whole section was quite funny. Also,when you said that the game caused U to wake "in the night screaming",for years. Picturing that,made it funny. Considering,that it's over a damaged-portion of the disc & the result,that caused that... xD
Truly funny,yet poetic. Like I 1st said. Glad U posted this,VERY worthwhile 2 read! :D
-Peace :)
I would have expected garfieldporn.com to contain footage of Garfield caught in the act.
I don't think I've ever been this premature.
I’m leaving this one alone! ;)
I was once
15:48 They DID release Remastered which has no install limit, so at least there's some kinda workaround
but Remastered also has a ton of glitches that ruin the graphics and atmosphere of the game plus they took out the EAX 4.0 ambient sound.
The original btw was fixed to have no install limits. I believe they removed SecuROM (or whatever they were using) when that "anti-tamper" software was becoming obsolete.
"As a rat starts strafing" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life and I cant fully explain why
Are you trying to tell me the best looking Genesis game was a freaking Garfield game??
I spent many, many hours with Garfield comic book maker. It was very fun.
I recently played the PS2 Garfield game for my channel and MY GOD. The back of the box looked okay. I thought I was getting a bland 3D platformer maybe... I was wrong. When that background music kicked in in your video I think I experienced some kind of PTSD.
The first game I ever completed was Garfields nightmare, i used to love that game. I played through it 2-3 times
I had Caught in the Act on the PC. I remember it took me awhile to beat when I was 7 or 8, but I enjoyed it a lot. The bizarre glitch monster was one of my favorite parts just for how left-field it was XD
22:42 This is the part when Austin describes adulthood.
Garfield: Lasagna World Tour was my first video game cuz I grew up in the Great Recession and they were selling PS2s for cheap at my local GameStop back when this game was brand new. It was so disappointing that we returned it and got Crash of the Titans, my introduction to the Crash Bandicoot series
Garfield is love
Garfield is Life
Garfield Demands human sacrifice
The most Garfield thing you could do, release this video the day after Monday cus you hate Mondays xD
There are only blessed Garfield games
Was not expecting to see Little Tunnie's "Barf" shift today, but, here we are
As someone named John, most Garfield videos are very unnerving.
I had Mad About Cats for PC as a kid and I adored it. It's super simple, a mini game "collection" (there's like 3?) with world food and wild cat trivia, but its a good distraction for a kid. If you wanna learn about African sand cats and then play a breakout clone, it's your game
I used to be OBSESSED with Lasagna Cat as a kid, comic compilations, little stuffed animals with suckers on the hands and feet you name it I had it. I regret nothing.
Whoa whoa whoa Austin those live action scooby doo movies are amazing leave them out of this 😂😂 also I’d love to see a video about all their games too
7:18 Garfield Art Online is my favorite isekai anime
just one sentence for Garfield Kart? It has Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, and for good reason. Also, it has a sequel that's actually kinda good!
Yeah but unlike the Minions, Garfield doesn’t make me want to rip my own head off and kick it around the place like a soccer ball.
I actually love the art of Garfield Caught In The Act, it's a perfect blend of Original Art and the Genisis' limitations
I think the old TV specials and the old TV show, "Garfield and Friends," had A LOT to do with the enduring popularity of the character. The specials and series were both solid and entertaining, all the characters were perfectly cast, the stories and humor were well-done, and their production values were enough to stand the test of time. So that's my take. Garfield is skating by on the success of his old TV adaptations that helped solidify him.
It's easy to take endless potshots at a franchise when you ignore most of said franchise. Thank you for bringing those up.
@@robertanderson9447 Yep! A lot of people today either don't remember or weren't there experience it, but Garfield had a strong first 20 years of existence, give or take. And going back to the perfect casting thing, the late great Lorenzo Music, was just such a perfect voice for Garfield. His performance did so much to make that fat orange cat an enduring character in his animated appearances. I'm convinced that losing Lorenzo Music was a big part of what caused Garfield to fall out of favor in pop culture. They've just never found a voice actor who fit the role even half as well after that. Heh. Don't ever let anyone tell you voice actors are all interchangeable, eh?
Austin once again highlighting his exquisite taste in Persona waifus
Him Garfield caught in the act was like sword art online
Me:*SREAMS IN PERSONA 4*
so glad that you not only showed the bart to garfield animorph, but you credited littletunny as well!!! :)
5:28 "Tiger Electronics handheld game"
> It's clearly and prominently branded "KONAMI"
Yeah, this checks out.
Fun fact: Garfield is actually dying of starvation and is hallucinating the entire series. Read Garfield: halloween 1989
Holy shit!
Oh I hope that's true. That would be a level of meta I wouldn't think Jim Davis was capable of.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu holy crap... 😨
Watch your back, you're muscling in on the Quint's turf. He's the Don of the Garfield world. Be warned
I disagree with what you said about the main joke of Garfield as well as the comic's appeal is that he's fat. Garfield was funny because a lot of people could relate to him, and the comics just had such a witty, charming sense of humor. I never laughed at the comics because "Haha, he's fat."
20:56 Ironically enough, this is the exact type of thing that got routinely shat on by the Garfield & Friends cartoon.
Fun fact: The developers of Lasagne World Tour made Charlie’s Angles on GameCube.
5:33 so a game where you play as The Ghostbuster that had the Same VA as Garfield which later the Actor playing that role in the Movies also Played Garfield.
The Garfield Show is an underrated classic.
Not the 2D one, as in the amazing 3D one with the banger theme song.
When I was a kid growing up in the early-mid 2000s, I had a GBA SP. I had Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Super Mario World, and Castlevania: COTM, but no other big-name games, really. My decent-sized collection of licensed shovelware included Garfield and His 9 Lives (and Cartoon Network Racing, funny enough) and...yeah. As a kid, anyway, it was pretty solid. Looking back, it’s more of a crapshoot-some levels are really bland compared to others, but the one thing worth mentioning is the music. For whatever reason, the Up A Tree stage song is almost too good for the game it’s used in, and for years was the only thing I remembered from the game until I finally got nostalgic enough to do some digging. It’s a relief to see how lucky I was to get one of the only okay installments in this ill-fated franchise.
I'm more curious if anyone remebers Power Piggs of the Dark Ages for the SNES, a spin-off (?) of the alter ego of Orson the Pig, one of the Orson's Farm characters from the Garfield and Friends cartoon. I swear no one ever talks about that game, if they even remember it!
2 start this comment,I have 2 say that I ended-up finding myself going on an early-NES-age nostalgia trip. So,warning ahead 4 that...
Also,if your name is,or you are friends/similar w/ "Jeff Thiele" from Cape Girardeau,Missouri. There's a personal-msg @the VERY bottom.Please read.Would mean a lot 2 me...
Now then,2 directly reply 2 U, "HallowedJes"(apologies,srry,I have no other way 2 contact this old friend of mine,anymore)...
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I remember hearing/reading about the game too!
It was mentioned in some Nintendo Power issue(s),that I have in storage somewhere. I /think/ this was around the same time of the "Boogerman" review(s) & maybe even some of the Nicktoon games???
It's kinda hard 2 recall this particular game,but a name like that is pretty-much impossible 2 forget... ;)
Also,I have EXCELLENT long-term memory skills & recall /most/ of my gaming-related life(unless,it's in the last few yrs. as my shorter-term is not very good,really)...
Anyway,I read the mags almost /constantly/(I was always looking forward to what was coming-out & into what I should rent next,which I did a LOT of). Also,I was always a "Hard-Core Gamer",until,the PS4-era(I'm 1 of those /still/ saving-up for a PS4). Which,is bcuz I've been on a nostalgia-trip the last few years & have been more concerned w/ finally owning all the stuff I either wanted/rented. Or,had stolen from me,when younger(rare NES games,that is)...
If it weren't for my initially trying to get CIB whenever-possible,I might've not gone into debt so bad. But,I was trying to re-capture that magical-feeling of actually OWNING the game,the /right/ way...
That is,in the NES-era,the only reasons U didn't have the instructions & box. Was,U either didn't take care of your stuff. Or,U either stole it from somebody or a store. Or,if it was instructions,it was a rental & someone had lost/kept them(jerks)...
I remember,how at the very 1st place I /ever/ rented from,they even got into the habit of charging ppl just 2 rent the instructions! It was like $4 or $5,to do so & this was about 1990,or 1991...
I'll likely never forget this. Because,I remember how bad I tried to convince my mother(who,was w/ me,at the time),to agree to it(she didn't). As,I always thought I needed them,to keep from getting-stuck in the game(ESPECIALLY,w/ NES games). Which,is because it /had/ happened,several times before w/ rental games & it kept me from figuring-out what to do(I'll never forget 2 games in particular,that I got confused by). Because,there were no instructions the 1st time I rented them. But,when going to rent a 2nd time,someone had /finally/ returned them. Or,the location just replaced them...
The 1st,was that infamous NES "Ghost Busters" game,every1 familiar w/ bad licensed games,will probably at least have heard of...
The 1st time I played it,I was absolutely CLUELESS what I was supposed to do. Just like most gamers,who go into it blind(there's an excellent AVGN vid,that backs my statement up)...
Somehow,I managed to stumble into the driving-sequence after awhile & even remember thinking it was kind-of enjoyable. But,mainly,I liked the "look" of the main game-screen(I thought it was some kind-of imitation Pac-Man game that was just hard 2 play). As,I was only about 5 or 6(it was among the very 1st NES games I ever played)& it was more about being amazing by all the graphics,I think. That,& at the time,I thought if I tried hard enough,I could figure-out ANY game. I remember thinking,that if I can figure-out how to land on the aircraft-carrier,in "Top Gun". Then,I should be able 2 figure-out what to do here(I was REALLY good at /certain/ games,for a 5-6 yr. old). Because,I was gamer as soon as it would have been possible to play them. As,there was a "Coleco-Vision" w/ 3 games,already in the house,before my birth(my dad bought it,but not sure why. Since,the only game he says he ever remembered liking was "Astro-Smash")...
Anyway,just 2 complete the story of my /actual/ 1st console(which it really might as well count as mine. As,my Dad never played it,that I ever saw). I "inherited",if U prefer,"Donkey Kong","Frogger",& "Sub-Roc". But,never had any other games 2 play on it,EVER
Back to that Ghost Busters game,tho...
Eventually,I figured-out how to reach the "street-level" screens. But,don't remember much about it. So,I probably didn't see it very-much...
Now,for the last part of my story,the 2nd game I referred to earlier,that I was /totally/ confused by. Due,to the lack of instructions,was "Beetlejuice"...
With it being 1 of my FAV movies of my childhood,I was REALLY looking forward to this game. However,w/o the instructions,I was completely at a loss as to what to do,the 1st time I rented it. I ended-up barely playing it. Since,I couldn't even figure-out how to get past the 1st "house" area of the game(again,EXCELLENT AVGN vid will help U understand,if not familiar). Still,I thought if I only knew what to do,I could enjoy it. So,sometime later(a few weeks later,I think),I thought about /maybe/ renting it. IF,the instructions might actually be avail. this time...
That is,I remember the ppl at the store I rented it from("Schnucks",if any1 from the center of the country,ever reads this),said that sometimes ppl return the instructions after awhile. So,I always had my hopes up it might get returned...
Anyways,the 2nd time was better. As,I now understood what I was supposed to do. At least,more so than before. However,it was still confusing & I don't think I got very far. As,I don't recall much about the game(likely,I still couldn't tell what I was supposed to be doing to progress & may have given-up,finally). Regardless,I remember not really caring. As,I had a few more games by that time. In particular,I had a VERY good friend that lent me his NES games,quite easily. And,the 2nd time I failed 2 understand Beetlejuice,I'm pretty-sure I distracted myself w/ the games I had borrowed from my friend...
Which,apologies,but I'm not sure if I ever properly Thanked him for this & more,so I MUST mention something at the end...
Also,this is enough 2 talk about RE: all of... whatever I f-ing did here... xD
Ummm... Hopefully,someone from the NES-era enjoys reminiscing about those days 2... But,yeah,I went on a LONG nostalgia-trip. Srry...
Srry I went off on a tangent,it ultimately /sort-of/ makes sense... I think?? Anyway,it's late & I've been up a LONG time. So,I tend 2 get like this,once going-down "Early-gaming-memories Lane"... :D
In my defense,I deleted a BUNCH more paragraphs that /really/ went 2 far out-of-range... So,there's /that/... :)
-Peace!
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Now,for my personal message,long over-due to the BEST friend I knew growing-up in Cape. And,really,the 1 that had my back more than ANYONE did anywhere (no offense to the others,just true)...
I'll never forget what happened last time we saw each-other & the way u defended me. Wish I could return home more often. But,it's difficult to get back,these days. Also,U weren't home last-time I was in town. So,srry I missed U dude. Hopefully,I'll be able 2 catch U next year,around Memorial Weekend,the usual time I stop-by,if U recall. Best friends 4 ever,Thanks for /everything/. You ended-up being my truest friend of anyone,EVER. I can't thank you enough for your generosity,dude.
-Peace & the best-possible luck(or w/e is your equivalent,I forget,srry man)to U & everyone important to U.Hope you're well,of course. Take Care,dude(pass on my gratitude to our other friends for me too,if U would,in case I don't see any of them again,either)...
Friends forever,Thanks again for EVERYTHING,SERIOUSLY :)
ATTENTION: Jeff Thiele,from Cape Girardeau,Missouri: if you EVER read this,look above. I left a "memorial" of sorts,in case we never catch-up again(never know,eh?)...Best of Luck & all those kinds of sentiments(not sure what U prefer,I forget,srry dude). TakeCare always,& Peace!
>GarfArt Online
Thanks I hate the mental image of Garito the Lasagna Swordscat
wow you really did buy that domain. made me feel extremely uncomfortable typing it in but i had to know.
"Professor Garfield" was my SHIT back in elementary school--it was a flash-based edutainment website in the early-to-mid 2000s and I fucking LIVED for it. The teacher would come in like "We're going to the Computer Lab" and I was like "FUCK YES!" Except I didn't say that because I was like, 6. Anyway, you talking about the Edutainment games at the start there brought that memory from the depths.
You should talk about the garfield scary scavenger hunt flash games. One of them has Lyman chained up in the basement of the haunted house. Very cursed.
Anyone who viewed that eBay Garfield Twitter must have PTSD from *THAT Fightstick.
Holy crap, he really did buy the domain...
15:22 Ashens's secret cameo as The Narrator. The more you know... 😉
This makes me remember that one random flash-based point-'n-click Garfield game that I used to play all the time back in the day.
I have no idea if it actually holds up, but I remember loving it.
The Halloween one? Still awesome
Ah, a video about Cursed Garfield games. This type of content is what I subscribe for!
10/10 would Garfield again😩
I had the the PS2 Garfield game, remember getting stuck because of not knowing how to drop or be able to drop items.
Garfield and his nine lives the animation was a tear jerk. Piano. IYKYK
I had that Mad about Cats PC game as a kid. I don't know why but I was like, really into Garfield when I was like 8 years old.
Also wow I'm in the chat at 23:42 so it proves I was also a witness to this atrocity.
I completely forgot I owned the Garfield 2 game, it all came back when you played the music.
"Garfield search in the play store"... New favorite thing to waste my time! You sir, are a saint.. or something else entirely.
“Garfield sword art online”
The most cursed thing ever said.
Garfield Saving Arlene & Lasagna World Tour might be bit on the crappier side, but I unironically love the sh*t out of those games.
Garfield scary scavenger Hunt 1 & 2 are more fun to play than they have any right to be too.
I remember this one Garfield game on Sega Genesis in which you started inside a television.
I remember that game because that was my first experience with a rage quit. It was so hard it made me think about punching my Tv for the first time ever...
Just to point it out, Bill Murray was contractually obligated to be in the sequel, which is why he was in A Tale of Two Kitties. Fortunately for him the movie didn't do as well as the previous one, so he was free from having to do a third one.
I looked up Garfield on the App Store, and the first one I found was a runner (seems like the antithesis of Garfield). It also had an advertisement blurb that read “Explore stunning Mine Hole”. So,
Hey i actually played Week of Garfield A TON as a kid, it was on this portable DVD player for car rides, it came with some NES games u could play with the controller. This was a very popular thing to have for a bit, so what I'm trying to say is that I am sure there's plenty of kids in the west that played this, despite not ever releasing officially here, and that's insane
Garfield Caught In The Act was my childhood. My father would rent it every now and then and i'd spend the entire day playing it. Good times.
I’m so glad I only discovered you now, because I’ve been able to BINGE watch all episodes. Gonna be sad when I run out…
glad to see your newer content on my feed again with your hair as puffy as always
I got one of those Walmart CD game thingies as a child. All I remember is one minigame, where Garfield collected chocolate eggs from a hen in a factory. Or so. It was one of the strangest games I ever played. And the hardest. i never managed to learn the controls.
I grew up watching the original airing of Garfield and Friends and the Garfield TV specials so I'm a long time fan of the series. Although I never played any of the video games.
I used to have Lost in the Act for the game gear and I remember liking it.
Also
GREEEEEN DOOOOG
actually there's another game that uses the vacuum mechanic that I think was pretty good! and that was Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit for PS2, I love that game
I believe that Garfield: Mad About Cats is the one and only Garfield "game" (I know this one is more edutainment than a game per se) to feature Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield.
Lorenzo Music voice samples were the biggest thing Garfield: Caught in the Act was missing, which was odd considering so many of the levels were inspired by various Lorenzo Music-era Garfield prime time TV specials.
I remember playing Garfield 2004 and the Search for Pooky when I was a kid. Didn't beat either of them.