Play Garfield And His Nine Lives (e)(lightforce) Online

Garfield and His Nine Lives came out for the Game Boy Advance in 2006, a time when the handheld was full of licensed games based on cartoons. It was published by The Game Factory, and it fits right into that era of trying to bring a comic strip cat into a side scrolling adventure. You step into the world of Jim Davis's creation, but it's not a lazy Sunday kind of experience.

You control Garfield through a series of levels, mostly running and jumping across platforms while avoiding enemies like mice and spiders. The main goal is simply to get from the start of each stage to the end, but you also collect lasagna plates and alarm clocks for points. A couple of mechanics stand out: you can perform a ground pound to defeat enemies below you, and you occasionally find power ups like a temporary super jump. The pacing is fairly straightforward, though some jumps require precise timing, and the difficulty can spike unexpectedly in later areas. Playing it feels like a straightforward, sometimes clunky, trip through Garfield's world where the challenge comes more from the level design than complex mechanics.