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Garfield's Mad About Cats

20002

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In Garfield's Mad About Cats, Jon expresses displeasure with Garfield's lack of motivation towards performing traditional rodent control duties. Still, Garfield is sympathetic to the mouse problem. He assumes his alter-ego of Dr. Frankencat and, along with his assistant Eager (Odie), descends into his mad scientist lab in the house's dungeon. The mission: create the perfect cat. To that end, Dr. Frankencat uses his computer to identify the most perfect traits of various cats from around the planet and assemble the features into a perfect cat.

The game allows the player to select different feline attributes such as size, roar, tail, and eyes, and then choose a cat from a global map that best showcases the feature. The game plays a brief educational video with a factoid about that cat. These lessons are then interspersed with one of 12 minigames that the player can elect to play before proceeding to the next lesson. The games are:

  1. Disco Jon: memorize and replay the flashing button sequence to make Jon boogie to the beat.

  2. Dress-A-Nerd: dress Jon using a variety of zany clothes from his own closet.

  3. Dunk Tank: launch baseballs at moving targets in order to dunk Binky the Clown in the tank.

  4. Soda Shaker: Garfield wants a soda but the soda machine places 4 cans on the table, shakes 3 of them, and swaps several pairs of cans. Pick the unshaken can.

  5. Odie Maze: a sliding tile puzzle where the player has to unscramble the scene so that Odie can make it to the fire hydrant.

  6. Hack Attack: a Space Invaders clone, where Garfield is being descended upon by a flock of Nermals that shoot cute hearts. Garfield must take out the invaders by hacking up hairballs.

  7. Fowl Shot: stick a chicken in a recliner and launch it at a moving target.

  8. Squash-A-Spider: dozens of spiders are descending on your pizza and coffee; squish them with a rolled-up newspaper.

  9. Burp Game: a Breakout clone, where Garfield uses his belches to bounce a mouse around to get all the cheese bricks.

  10. Matching Madness: a card matching game.

  11. Create-A-Character: an activity where the player can change the upper, middle, and lower sections of a character to create new, mismatched characters.

  12. Whack-A-Rat: a clone of the venerable Whac-A-Mole game, with rats.

Game details

Business Model

Commercial

Media Type

CD-ROM

Input Devices Required

Keyboard, Mouse

Input Devices Supported/Optional

Keyboard, Mouse

Number of Offline Players

1 Player

System requirements

Min. CPU Class Required

Intel Pentium

Min. OS Class Required

Windows 95

Min. RAM Required

8 MB

Min. CD-ROM Drive Speed Required

4X (600 KB/s)

Video Modes Supported

SuperVGA, Full screen

Video Resolutions Supported

640×480

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Also known as

Garfield der BesserwisserGerman title

Garfield: Louco Por GatosPortuguese title

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Facts

Released

2000

Series

Garfield

Platforms

PCWindowsMac

Age ratings

USK6

Tags

1st-personBoard gameMinigamesShooterEcology / natureGeographyLicensed