Joel D. Park Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Guys, did anyone notice this? Check out this comic http://garfield.com/comic/2014-07-20 The comic title is nearly identical to the Atari 2600 Garfield Cartridge, SEE: http://atariage.com/screenshot_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=838 The color is slightly off, and facing a different direction. Is it possible that Jim Davis has an original cartridge, or possibly a more complete prototype? Or at least screenshots. Or did he hack the image from the internet. I think it's pretty cool regardless. What do you guys think? Joel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Garfield is still being made? I mean, I guess Family Circus got made decades after it wasn't funny, but.. Garfield?? The image is almost certainly taken directly from the rom, whether directly or as a screengrab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 That's pretty interesting. I'm sure it was just taken from a screenshot. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24Fanatic365 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I noticed the ROM is available for download. Is it any good, or is this just another piece of shovelware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari181 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Looks the same, except the eyes are a bit different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I noticed the ROM is available for download. Is it any good, or is this just another piece of shovelware? Incomplete prototype. Bonus points for the "LSD trippy" Odie stages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Looks the same, except the eyes are a bit different. Which could either indicate that there exist another prototype or that someone has edited the screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Moving a few pixels around is a lot more probable than another prototype. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Moving a few pixels around is a lot more probable than another prototype. Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybearg Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Clearly Jim Davis searches Google for obscure links to Garfield. I doubt that he remembers a licensing deal from 1984 for a 2600 game that never came to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Clearly Jim Davis searches Google for obscure links to Garfield. I doubt that he remembers a licensing deal from 1984 for a 2600 game that never came to be. Based on the story on AtariProtos, it seems like Jim Davis, in granting permission to release the ROM image, was certainly aware of its existence, and relatively recently at that. Considering the near exact replication, it's likely he was working off of screenshots in his possession rather than a random Web search, and did so quite deliberately. I'm no fan of his, but it's definitely a cool move. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Garfield is still being made? I mean, I guess Family Circus got made decades after it wasn't funny, but.. Garfield?? The image is almost certainly taken directly from the rom, whether directly or as a screengrab. Garfield is the comic I'll be reading in purgatory. There are so many volumes you can literally start over and have completely forgotten the panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 (edited) Clearly Jim Davis searches Google for obscure links to Garfield. I doubt that he remembers a licensing deal from 1984 for a 2600 game that never came to be. © Paws, Inc. is quite alert on the proper use of this ROM. If their copyright statement .txt file is not included with the code, they will not give permission to use the ROM. Atarimania got a warning from them a few years ago. Edited July 31, 2014 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Cool way of putting an Atari screenshot as intro. The Garfield comics always put me in ROTFL state Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaXDragon Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Neat! To bad this was never finished back then. As a Garfield uber fan back in the 80's, I would have been all over it. I also recall an old Apple II Garfield comic strip maker, that included a bunch of clip art of the characters in various poses and you could add your own words. I used to play with it in the school library when I wasn't playing Oregon Trail or Print Shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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