Garfield: Caught In The Act The Lost Levels finally found and shown off publically

🚨BREAKING🚨: ‘Garfield: Caught in the Act The Lost Levels’ has been FOUND by YouTube user PointZoneTelephone.

A 40+ minute long gameplay of the levels was uploaded to YouTube yesterday.

Watch it here: https://t.co/sxU5va8ljn pic.twitter.com/5rUPsB39RA

— Lost Media Busters (@LostMediaBuster) October 1, 2024

In a fantastic moment of lost Sega history now found (As well as on a Monday, much to Garfield’s dismay), the “Lost Levels” ROM for Garfield: Caught in the Act (1995) has finally resurfaced after 29 years (give or take). It was set up for the public to play at Portland Retro Gaming Expo this past September 27th-29th 2024.

A long video of the game was uploaded onto YouTube by PZTunleaded, who stresses in the video description that they are not the one to have found the ROM, despite what the above tweet from Lost Media Busters claims. PZTunleaded was only a guest at the expo and wanted to show everyone the game in action. They also promise in the description that the game ROM will eventually be shared with the public online and to not “be a nuisance and/or a menace pls”, so kindly cool your jets and be patient. No need to kick anyone off of any tables. You can see the video beyond the break.

For those unaware, a special version of Garfield: Caught In The Act, made up of a series of levels cut from the final game, made its way onto Sega Channel shortly after the game’s retail release. That special version of the game was known as Garfield: The Lost Levels. It was never available beyond Sega Channel and was thought for decades to be lost to video game history, until now, thankfully. One of those lost levels, Bonehead the Barbarian, (Oddly titled “Season Finale” in The Lost Levels, which is the name of the final boss level.) was remade for the Game Gear version of the game while another of the levels, Alien Landscape, was later finished and included in the Windows 95 port of the game, released two years later in 1997. Featured in neither version of the game was a special train section of the “Catsablanca” level, which was finalized and included in the retail releases sans the train section.

As mentioned above the break, PZTunleaded, who uploaded this video, assures us that the ROM file will be released to the public to try for themselves. When it is, we’ll update you on that news right here on SegaBits.

Are you excited by this discovery? Did you play Garfield: Caught in the Act? Did you actually play The Lost Levels on Sega Channel, and if so, does the gameplay footage in that video bring back memories? Please tell us in the comments below. (Again, without being a nuisance and/or a menace, if you’d be so kind.)

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