
Guilt Based Gaming: When the player loses all of his or her lives and has continues, they will be treated to a screen of Garfield clinging to the TV screen, desperately wanting to get out of the TV World.Gang Plank Galleon: "The Revenge of Orangebeard".Game Breaking Bug: Occasionally, the third boss would walk offscreen and never return, forcing the player to start over the game.Feelies: The game (at least the Genesis version) came with a free booklet of Garfield cartoons.

B-Movie: The manual explains that Garfield must venture through endless bad B-movies and commercial breaks.Tropes used in Garfield: Caught in the Act include: Chances of seeing them again are dim by now. Garfield: The Lost Levels, a pack of downloadable extra levels, was available through the Genesis online service, called the Sega Channel. In the Game Gear version, the variety is limited to just long-range weapons. Whether it was intentional or not could be debatable.Įvery level gives Garfield a new outfit, as well as different short- and long-range weapons. The game is filled with plenty of Hollywood Science. Collecting TV remote pieces lead you to win the game. These parts come to life, becoming The Glitch, which throws Garfield into the world of television. Garfield throws away the 'spare parts' that were left upon completion. What is left is definitely NOT a television. They work together to fix it before they face the wrath of Jon. The sprites were hand drawn by Davis and his group of artists.īackstory: Odie sneaks up and scares Garfield while he is watching television, causing him to break it.

Garfield: Caught in the Act is a Platform Game released by Sega in 1995 for the Genesis to cash in on the success of Jim Davis's comic strip.
