/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8616807
YOU'RE EATING US OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME

GARMFIELD!!

>>8616807
>see ,the japanese did it too!
Higher highs and better averages than your shit ever had Nigel.

>>8616834
Top kek! Which Tick Tock video did you get this one from? Its pretty random xD

>>8616867
It's from a 9-year-old video

>>8616807
At least the box art wasn't Euroshit nightmare fuel.

>>8616807
Is this the only good game published by Towa Chiki?

>>8616807
Why are zoomers obsessed with this crap, out of all the crap on Famicom?

>>8617607
Based Americhad Jim Davis to the rescue.

>>8617648
Boomers discovered NES games through cartridges. Zoomers discover them through emulators, so they have a wider grasp on overall 8-bit gaming landscape.

>>8617653
And so they use that wider grasp to focus on meme garbage titles they heard about on YouTube?

>>8617653
nes emulation has been around for 25 years, baby faggot

>>8616807
I just got me an Everdrive, it'll be a few days to arrive. You can bet this is one of the first games I'm going to try out.

>>8616834
I gotta have a good meal

>>8617648
it's based on a familiar Western franchise i guess. there may be worse games based on obscure manga series no Westerner knows about.

>>8616807
licensed games are always shit

>>8617648
I'm a late-80s millennial, and I've been fascinated with AWOG since I first discovered its existence in the early 2000s. Even beyond the absolutely atrocious quality, there's something fascinating about a Garfield NES game that was only released in Japan. It absolutely seems like something developed for a US audience, and yet it never came out in the US.

Also, Garfield autism is only a notch below Sonic autism, so that could be part of why zoomies love it.

>>8618126
Platformers are also generally approachable, compared to things like untranslated RPGs and sims, or more Japanesey games like horse racing games and mahjong. The shittiness of a low quality platformer can be experienced and "appreciated" regardless of language and culture.

>>8616834
fpbp, I expected that

>>8616854
Yeah except while we were paying £2.99 for classics such as Monty on the Run and Treasure Island Dizzy, Amerisharts were getting jewed out of the best part of $100 for NES shitware like Back to the Future lmao

>>8619741
They may have not had a Garfield license for North America, but maybe they considered it too shitty to release as well. Paws, Inc had strict Q/C standards for Garfield products back in the 80s-90s.

>>8619913
yeah, about that...

Pretty sure Caught in the Act was the only decent Garfield game ever.

>>8620373
The box and game data itself has all the proper copyright, with the (unique?) cover art even featuring the Jim Davis signature stamp. I'd have to imagine the game was initially intended for a US release, and that Paws approved of it before development began. Maybe they saw the finished or in-development product and realized it was too shitty to release, but figured the harm done by releasing a sub-par game strictly in the Japanese market wasn't going to harm the brand enough to outweigh the profit.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Paws Inc even commissioned the game in the first place, seems odd for a Japanese publisher to, entirely on their own, decide to develop a Garfield Famicom game.

>>8620373
Transformers: Comvoy no Nazo could have been a similar deal, but also they maybe didn't bother because it would have gotten to the West too late to help promote the movie. At least that has the excuse of being an early Famicom game from 86 while Garfield is a disgrace for something that came out so late.

>tfw no late 80s/early 90s "Garfield and Friends" NES game handled by Capcom or Konami
Why did some no-name Japanese developer wind up handling the IP, and why didn't they go with the iteration of the franchise that would've been most appealing to kids at the time of release?

>>8620429
>tfw no late 80s/early 90s "Garfield and Friends" NES game handled by Capcom or Konami
Knowing your luck it would be done by Titus or something.

>>8620424

>>8620382
The second gba game was very good.