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Great Giana Sisters coming to DS News
DS Retro News by Oli Welsh
Unlikely as it may seem, late-80s collector's item and notorious Super Mario Bros clone The Great Giana Sisters is to get a DS release in Europe next June.
Wired reports that dtp Entertainment is working with developer Spellbound Studios - founded by Giana creator Armin Gessert - to bring the controversial and rare platform game to a Nintendo machine, of all things. It will feature a remixed version of the original soundtrack and updated graphics.
The Great Giana Sisters was released - briefly - for the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1987, before publisher Rainbow Arts had to withdraw it under legal pressure from Nintendo.
It stars siblings Giana and Maria, who bop blocks to collect power-ups that give them the ability to smash more blocks wit their heads. Not only that, but enemies and even map layouts bear strong similarities to the NES classic, Super Mario Bros.
Derivative it may have been, but Great Giana Sisters was one of the better platform games on home computers at the time. Thanks to widespread piracy, it became a cult hit after it was withdrawn.
20 years on and it seems as though Nintendo's prepared to forgive and forget. Perhaps that's not surprising - Great Giana Sisters wouldn't be the first tribute to Super Mario Bros on the DS, after all.
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johnboy_johsnon
15/12/08 @ 14:42
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Had a pirate copy for the Amiga (possibly still do). Now that I think of it why did they have to withdraw it? Sure it was really like Mario but you could argue that about a lot of different genres and games.
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muscleblade
15/12/08 @ 14:49
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"Sure it was really like Mario but you could argue that about a lot of different genres and games. "
It was almost the exact same game only with sisters. |
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I used to spend waaay too many hours looking at the load/front screen* on the (pirated) amiga version...
If you catch my drift ;) *It was the same as the box art = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Giana... |
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Martin_feltches_men
15/12/08 @ 16:47
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hahaha! i had the flip screen version on the ST, damn its lack of dedicated named after girls Amiga style chippies...now what was that game with the 7 layers of parralex scrolling hmmmm
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BonzoBanana
22/12/08 @ 16:24
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As previously stated the control was rubbish. It didn't play anywhere near as good as Nintendo's original. I only ever played it on C64 though. Curious to know what the amiga version was like.
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