Garfield no Isshukan

"Oh Garfield, what have they done to you?"

Remember in 1995 when Sega made a deal with Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, to create video games for Genesis and Game Gear using his orange tubby cat character? Well, the games weren't that great, but compared to this piece of NES crap, they look like pure gold. In fact, even terrible licensed NES games like Yo! Noid and the Crash Test Dummies look wonderful in comparison.

Graphics- 1/10

What the heck?! You're telling me this is a NES game?! I thought it was a colorized Game Boy game! Seriously, though, the graphics are TERRIBLE. Poor use of colors, tons of bugs and glitches, one color characters, terrible looking backgrounds that make Super Mario Brothers look like a PS2 game...this game has got it all. If it weren't for the average-looking Garfield, I'd give this game a 0 in graphics.

Sound- 0.5/10

I gave this game a half point because the company who made this even bothered to put in ANY music or sound fx. Unfortunately, though, the soundtrack repeates on a 3-second loop as it uses the sound 3 music tracks over and over. In addition, there are, like, 3 sound effects in the entire game. Even worse, they're TERRIBLE. If you listen to this game without muting your TV or computer, you SERIOUSLY need your head examined.

Control- 5/10

To the game's credit, the control is fairly average. Garifled moves in the direction you want him to, and jumps at exactly the direction you wanted him to. Too bad your kicks, your main attack, are extremely useless, as you end up taking damage befoe you even touch the enemy you're tying to kick. WHWWHHHHEEEE!!! Are we having fun yet?! I mean that literally...because I'm not having fun =(

Challenege- 25/10

If you can actually beat this game, you are either a) a super god at video games or b) the luckiest guy on Earth. Either way, most people will probably never beat this game without cheating, kinda like Nintendo said about Perfect Dark.

Replay- 0/10

Play this game for 5 seconds, laugh at how bad it is, and never speak of it again. That's all I can say. There are bad 1983 arcade games with more replay value than this piece of crap of a ''video game''.

Overall- 1/10

Do not play this game if you like Garfield. Do not play this game even if you hate Garfield. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME PERIOD!! Some things are bst left unknown...this unholy piece of crap of a game, which looks and feels like it was made by 9 year olds during the course of 2 weeks, is a dud in every way. The ONLY good thing about this is that it never came to the U.S. We are SO lucky.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 10/20/01, Updated 10/20/01