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🗓️ 3 September 2021
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0:35.5 | So up next we have the first real Garfield game, Garfield Big Fat Harry deal. And |
1:05.2 | Big Fat Harry deal was like a lesser Garfield expression in the early days. We eventually have |
1:11.5 | like I hate Mondays and whatever else you Garfield would say. But this phrase would pop up in a lot |
1:16.7 | of the specials and a lot of the songs. And yeah, this is the name of his first game. And this is a |
1:23.5 | British micro computer game. And I don't know if it came out in the States, but it does resemble a |
1:28.8 | lot of games this time. And they're very short, very difficult. Often the graphics are very good, |
1:34.2 | but they're very awkward in terms of how they interact with the gameplay. And the music is great, |
1:38.7 | but it fits nothing that's happening on the screen. It is ludicrous to me that the British got all |
1:45.3 | of these Garfield games at the height of Garfield Mania. And we got nothing like it's what I mean, |
1:52.5 | I think Garfield's appeal is universal. But it's like why why would they I feel like the only reason |
1:57.8 | they got it is that it was a cheaper license in England that to get it. And no one wanted to pay |
2:05.2 | for it in America. Yeah, I don't know what his popularity was in the UK. But this game is really |
2:11.6 | just an adventure game that is padded out with lots of exploration. And if you look at the actual |
2:17.6 | fact for this game, you have to do seven things, but they're all just the most moon logic adventure |
2:23.2 | game stuff. It's just like, well, Garfield needs to open this treasure chest. What do you do? Well, |
2:27.4 | you go to the health food store, you buy the spinach donut and you feed it to the rat that's running |
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