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March 1, 2024 3:38 PM

Garfield (2004) was a game for the Playstation 2 and PC. It was a pretty lackluster 3D production where the idea was to help the cartoon cat clean Jon's house within eight hours (real time!) or else be put on a diet. The few places that reviewed it gave it extremely low scores (0/10!). Youtuber planet clue recently had a look at the game (20 minutes) and, while agreeing it's no great work of art, saw that there was still a bit of fun to be had, if it could be made to run on Windows 11, and if one could get over its issues. So, they went about hacking it to correct its more egregious flaws, and when they were done put their improved version online, as Garfield+ (Windows only).
posted by JHarris (4 comments total)

Thanks for sharing a link that's lead down a rabbithole of many hours I'm only now finally whittling down back to this original tab.
posted by GoblinHoney at 6:22 PM on March 1 [2 favorites]

Now, someone needs to hack this into Garfield+ Minus Garfield and the cycle will be complete.
posted by xedrik at 7:11 AM on March 2 [1 favorite]

I love how intensely weird this is. That anyone could possibly care about this game enough to want to save it, never mind hacking it to improve it? Mad lads.
posted by 1adam12 at 7:31 AM on March 2 [1 favorite]

Here is a video of someone playing the original version of game. Possibly being displayed at the wrong ratio.

My first instinct was to search for a tool-assisted speedrun of it but nobody seems to have bothered doing that to this particular Garfield game.
posted by egypturnash at 10:02 AM on March 3 [1 favorite]