Garfield Details - LaunchBox Games Database

Overview

Garfield is a side-scrolling platform video game for the Atari 2600 that Atari planned, but cancelled because of the videogame crash of 1983. 1984 wasn't a good year for Atari (or the video game industry in general). Because of this Atari decided to stop developing games that it didn't think would sell in large numbers. Once Atari was sold to the Tramiels, they took a look at Garfield and decided they didn't want to pay the high royalties to Jim Davis and Steve Woita, so the game was canceled. When Woita heard this, he didn't take the news very well, but he had little time to protest as most of Atari's staff was laid off. To make a long story short, Garfield was never finished. According to Woita, Garfield still needed about 2 to 3 months of work before it would be complete. The final game was to have hundreds of screens and probably would have been the largest 2600 game to date. Garfield finally turned up when Jim Davis finally gave Woita permission to distribute the rom