The Great Giana Sisters
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 Cover art of The Great Giana Sisters |
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| Developer(s) | Time Warp Productions |
| Publisher(s) | Rainbow Arts |
| Composer(s) | Chris Hülsbeck |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX2, Mobile phone, Nintendo DS, iPod Touch, iPhone Unofficial ports: DOS, Windows, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS |
| Release date(s) | 1987 |
| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
The Great Giana Sisters is a platform game developed by Time Warp Productions for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MSX2, and Commodore 64. It was released in 1987 and published by Rainbow Arts. The Commodore 64 version was programmed by Armin Gessert. Graphics were designed by Manfred Trenz.
As of 2005, a new version titled simply Giana Sisters has been made available for mobile phones. There is also an unofficial fangame titled Giana's Return[1] for Windows, GP2x, GP2X Wiz, and Dreamcast. A port of the Commodore 64 version was made for the Nintendo DS.[2]
In April 2009, publisher DTP Entertainment and developer Spellbound Interactive, owner of the game's IP released a new Giana Sisters game in Europe with an extensive graphical update for the Nintendo DS.[3] It has since been released in Australia. The game features all-new levels and more gameplay elements, and a recreation of the original game's levels can be unlocked. Giana Sisters DS was finally released in North America in November 2011 by publisher Destineer, though their official website does not have it listed, and is only available through several retailers such as Walmart and Newegg.com
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[edit] History
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Rainbow Arts was forced to withdraw the game from sale almost as soon as it was released and cancel release of the otherwise completed ZX Spectrum version, under pressure from Nintendo's legal arm, because of the strong resemblance to Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers game. The cover of the C64 version, published in the UK by GO! (a sub-label of US Gold), went so far as to taunt Nintendo's game with the tagline "The brothers are history".
Original copies of the game are currently highly prized by video game collectors.
The Spectrum version was reviewed and mentioned in magazines, but was never commercially released.
[edit] Screenshots
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Great Giana Sisters (Amiga version)
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Giana in a cave (Amiga version)
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Great Giana Sisters (C64 version)
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[edit] External links
- Original C64 version playable on webpage with Java
- Giana Sisters in C64-Wiki
- Giana Sisters DS - Official remake of the Commodore 64 game for the Nintendo DS
- Giana Sisters iPod Touch/ iPhone - Official remake of the Commodore 64 game for the Apple iPod Touch / iPhone (link to iTunes: iTunes-link )
- Review of Great Giana Sisters in Your Sinclair
- Review of Great Giana Sisters in Crash!
- Great Giana Sisters at AmigaMemo.com - AmigaMuseum
- Great Giana Sisters at World of Spectrum
- English page for mobile phone Giana Sisters at Jamster!
- Great Giana Sisters theme remixes at remix.kwed.org
