Garfield and His Nine Lives

by American Game Factory

Product Features

• Play and Interact
• Journey to various places
• Tricky obstacles
• Play and interact with the popular characters from the cartoon series: Garfield, Odie and Arlene

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000CSUKXW
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 4.8 x 1 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,718 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

That cut-up, Garfield the cat, seems to have eaten too much lasagna--again! That night he faces the consequences as he endures a night full of strange dreams. These dreams and, in some cases, nightmares, take Garfield on nine unique adventures--one for each of a cat's nine lives!

Throughout the game Garfield's dreams will take the player on a journey to various places in the Garfield universe where everyone's favorite feline must think fast and smart to avoid his enemies and overcome tricky obstacles.

Features:

• 12 levels
• Interact with Odie and Arlene
• Sarcastic commentary from Garfield himself
• 2-D comic art style inspired by the Garfield and Friends television show
• Password save
• English, French, and Spanish text
• For one player

Product Description

Garfield, the classic comic strip character, is back and he's just as fat, lazy and lovable as ever. One night just before bed time Garfield goes on one of his eating benders. He faces the consequences that night as he encounters an evening full of stra

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Basic Platformer for Garfield Fans, December 30, 2006

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Garfield and His Nine Lives (Video Game)

Garfield and his Nine Lives is a GameBoy Advance adventure game featuring the always hungry tabby cat and his cartoon friends.

The game is a side scrolling adventure much like Super Mario, but featuring Garfield as the main character. He can run, jump, and kick enemies. He goes through a series of themed levels such as a circus, farm, haunted house, and other interesting locations. In each ones the enemies are what you might expect - foxes, ghosts, bats, and so on. Nothing overly scary, and while many of them are challenging, they're all quite doable even for youngsters.

There are three difficulty settings, so that tykes and adults can find a challenge they will enjoy. Also, you can have the dialogue in English, Spanish or French - so if you're trying to learn a new language, this could be a fun way to do it! Not that there's a lot of talk in this game. You get a few quips and jokes along the way, but that's about it.

Each level has a basic task - gather up the eggs, find the key. Each game also has bonus tasks - find all the coffee cups. Back on the main screen, you can see which levels you've beaten and what remains on each one, as well as what difficulty you took that level on. That way you can work on levels one at a time, choosing your favorites and ramping the difficulty up step by step until you can get a perfect score on the hardest level.

The sounds are what you'd expect from a GameBoy Advance title - cutesy music and silly sound effects.

You eat lasagna to regain your health, of course!

There are some downsides here. Some of the monsters can become quite annoying. For example, one enemy "bounces you back" - and you can get between two of them, and they get you stuck in the middle. I had one monster bounce me back "into" a decorative box, and it was a few minutes before the game let me get back out of it again.

Still, the game is great fun for Garfield fans.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor, tacked together cash-in game, March 4, 2007

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Inspector Gadget "Go Go Gadget Reviews" (On the trail of Doctor Claw) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Garfield and His Nine Lives (Video Game)

I am so disappointed with this Garfield game for many reasons. Let me begin by saying that the graphics are great and the music is very sweet. I have to say that my judgment is not all negative, but the gameplay is the worst in the history of all video-games ever. You think I'm exaggerating?

Basically, all you have to do is run around a generic level collecting things and occasionally discovering a secret room. Even something as novice as this could have been fun if the controls were not totally useless. It's a very difficult game to navigate through especially since the physics of touching baddies and dangerous objects just doesn't seem right.

I finally just abandoned the game since there was obviously no point in taking it all the way to the end. I just wasn't enjoying it and I regret buying it. At least is was cheap.

Graphics B+ Sound B Gameplay F Lasting Appeal F

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars garfield's lives, January 21, 2007

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Melissa A. Miller "Chevywoman2003" (Hereford, MD) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Garfield and His Nine Lives (Video Game)

This is a fun game but, hard at first!In the first level you have to collect all the eggs on the arbuckle farm before the fox eat them all! The Second level is easy you have find you way out of a haunted house you have to get rid of the ghosts to get the key!!the third level you have to get through the circus and the monkeys like the throw stuff at you so watch out!! the third level your in the sewers with spiders and mice watch out fo them to get through the level!!