1852 - Garfield The Search For Pooky (E)

[shadow1w2]

This isnt a bad game. Though the animation doesnt look as good as the NES versoin O-o
The genesis garfield game was plain great :3 But I think SEGA made that one o-o
This one is sorta like the NES one but feels more like a homebrew game o-o.
I think Id rather play the NES and Genesis ones on an emulator for the DS

Though the music isnt too bad.
And even though theres a lack of animation, the sprites look more like they are from the comics.
But they coulda game up with a better idea than "Pooky gets bear napped by mice, go eat food and catch mice one at a time then put in cage"
The genesis one was "GET SUCKED IN THE TV!" and that was just plain good XD
The nes one just had, "go walk around and do stuff until you find odie wich garfield will punt anyway" though that one had alot of weapons XD
Its atleast a decent game, and since it has garfield in it, its an alright decent game with an actual reason to consider playing it.

Also, the game's engine reminds me of the old Ren and Stimpy Vidieots game for snes o-o

 

[DeMoN]

Calvin and Hobbes seems to be pretty popular, but it doesn't get much praise. There's not even an official site for it.

On-Topic: I agree that the design in this game is pretty messed up. Garfield -> Video Games is such a bad idea.

 

[jumpman17]

Ah man, Garfield for the Genesis, I played that all the time.

I will give this game one thing though, they did a great job transferring Garfield to the GBA, I mean, look at him! He looks great!

Now if only they could have put that much time into the rest of the game...

 

[Dirtie]

At first I thought the title read: "Garfield The Search for Pussy". Don't get any dodgy ideas in your heads, remember, a pussy is only a cat (or is it?

).

 

[Tempest Stormwin]

Calvin and Hobbes seems to be pretty popular, but it doesn't get much praise. There's not even an official site for it.

It gets plenty of praise precisely for that reason.

Bill Watterson, the cartoonist, has retired, so there's no new material to put on a website. Nor does he wish to return to it, despite how much he loved it, mostly because of his many years fighting.

You see, he spent all ten years of the comic's life fighting against the licencers who wanted to commercialize and sell Calvin and Hobbes stuff. He succeeded, on the most part (there's a large number of illegal bootleg things, mostly drawn from the "Classical Music at 78 RPM" strip or of a piece of fanart that shows Calvin peeing on something, but those weren't supported by Watterson).

Meanwhile, I dare you to find one person who was alive and reading comics in that era who doesn't say it was the best. There are a few older folks who'll bring up other classics (mostly Krazy Kat or Pogo, and some say Peanuts there too... what should be said, though, is that those were the three biggest inspirations for Watterson), but they won't say that Calvin and Hobbes was bad. They probably liked it too.

There's a rare magic in some strips. That one was one of them.

-Tempest out.-

 

[Froze]

On-Topic:This Garfield game is not as fun as I think.I rather play the Genesis version.
Off-Topic:Snoopy,Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield was the best comic strips I ever seen.But only Calvin and Hobbes are featured in my daily newspaper.

 

[morrisseyshair]

No love for Get Fuzzy, huh?

 

[MonkeyHead79]

No love for Get Fuzzy, huh?

Never got that in my paper, nor have I come across any collections in the library or local bookstore.

So, no.

More on-topic, I didn't think the Garfield game for Genesis/PC was all that great in itself, but it DID have good animation and rendering of the characters, and the music (in the PC version, as it used CD music) was very very catchy. This one I don't think I'll bother with though. As for the NES version... http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=24 well.

 

[Foppzter]

Calvin and Hobbes is teh best!!!
Think how fun a game with them can be

 

[Tempest Stormwin]

I like Get Fuzzy too... it's good, but it's not the truly great masterpiece that is Calvin and Hobbes. (There's a lot of good strips that are funny, but not the same... Dilbert, Fox Trot, Zits, and so on come to mind. Good, but not a masterpiece.)

-Tempest out.-

 

[jumpman17]

I enjoyed Get Fuzzy when it first started. It's gotten old to me.

I still remember reading the last Calvin and Hobbes in the newspaper on Sunday morning. It broke my heart. Calvin and Hobbes riding down a hill in a wagon, talking about how there's a whole world still to see...

 

[radjago]

The last Calvin and Hobbes, for the uninformed.

 

[iceshake]

password save? isn't that a big turn off for some?

 

[DeMoN]

password save? isn't that a big turn off for some?

Yeah, password saving bites ass.
Especially if the password is long, like Golden Sun, I didn't have a link cable when GS2 came out so I spent 2 hours entering in the password by hand.

 

[TheGreat2nd]

Fox Trot and Zits are funny though uncomparable to Calvin and Hobbes.

Back on topic, this game sucks. Not as much as Elf, but it still sucks.

 

[Phooky]

haha garfield i hope you find me

 

[Scollins]

I have a X-ROM 512 and get this game to work... screen goes blank before start. Anyony help me with this??

Thanks