Garfield and His Nine Lives is a 2006 platform game for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Lucky Jump Games. Despite sharing the same name, this game has almost no similarities to the TV special and book of the same name. It follows Garfield across 9 levels taking place in different areas.
Garfield and His Nine Lives contains examples of:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Level 4, Spiders in the Sewers, is a large and labyrinthine sewer system.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Why would Garfield care about rescuing Nermal, Odie, and a bunch of random chicken eggs?
- A Winner Is You: The game's ending is insulting. You're shown a single image of Garfield happily running away from the refrigerator, then it goes back to the main menu.
- Big Boo's Haunt: Level 2, Haunted House. Full of coffins, bats, suits of armor, ghosts, and a graveyard. The goal is to find a key and escape.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Implied. Level 8, Dr. Dupes and the Odie Clones, is full of Odie lookalikes who wear helmets and attack Garfield. The titular "Dr. Dupes" is nowhere to be seen.
- Circus Episode: Level 3, The Circus, has Garfield jumping over flaming hoops and through tightropes at a circus.
- Difficulty Levels: Before you start a save file, you can choose to play on Easy, Medium, or Hard difficulty.
- Edible Collectible: Being the Big Eater he is, the collectible items for Garfield in each level are foods: coffee, pizza, pie, donuts...
- Ground Pound: While in the air, Garfield can slam the ground with his shoulder to break open weak ground.
- Idle Animation: If he hasn't moved in a while, Garfield will look at the player and tap his foot impatiently.
- Life Meter: Garfield's health is portrayed by a pan of lasagna. As he loses health, the lasagna partially disappears. If he loses a life, all that's left is an empty pan.
- Platform Game: Garfield runs and jumps through 9 different levels.
- Pie in the Face: Pie-throwing monkey enemies appear in The Circus.
- Pun-Based Title: The final level is titled Kitchen Cat-Astrophe.
- Rake Take: One obstacle in level 1, Arbuckle Farm, is rakes laying on the ground. If Garfield steps on one, it hits him in the face and he loses health.
- Random Events Plot: There's no connective narrative between each level; some are regular Garfield setpieces like the kitchen and climbing a tree, others are stranger locales like a haunted house and a circus. Whether these are meant to be Garfield's lives, dreams, or anything else is left to your interpretation.
