The Great Giana Sisters

The Great Giana Sisters released to Commodore 64 is a 2D side-scrolling arcade game in which the player controls either Giana or her sister Maria. The Great Giana Sisters is a 2D platformer inspired to Super Mario Bros (you might say 'clone'). It was developed by Time Warp initially for the Commodore 64/128, in 1987, then ported to Amiga and Atari ST in 1988.

The Great Giana Sisters is an old action game, developed by Time Warp Software and released by Rainbow Arts in 1987. The Great Giana Sisters is currently abandonware and runs on DOS. It's available for download.

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Genres:

female protagonist, side-scroller, fangame, remake

single-player, hotseat

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Additional info

Input: keyboard

Graphics: VGA

Sound cards supported: Adlib, Sound Blaster Dungeon overlord kongregate.

Abandonware DOS views: 6992

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Filesize: 42kb

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The Great Giana Sisters Review by: totaldramaman2 - 6.1/10

Great Giana Sisters Review
Overall - 6.1
Throughout history, there have been many great games, such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, and many more. Of course, developers eventually play these games, and sometimes make their own version of the game. Duludubi Star, Kid Kool, Hydlide, Block Factory, and this game for Commodore 64, Great Giana Sisters. Tell me, what does this sound like? A synonym for Super, a five letter name, and a word relating to two siblings of the same gender. Yeah, it's a Super Mario Bros. copy.
Graphics - 4
The graphics aren't very good. Sure, it's the Commodore 64, but there's a version of this on Amiga that has far superior graphics. The owls look like Goombas, Giana's hair looks really messy, and the colors are overall boring and not interesting to look at. At least things like the bushes look nice. It doesn't even change when you go underground, which makes it look depressing and bright at the same time. This would be a nice time to point out I can't decipher what any of the enemies look like besides the owls. I see this eyeball creature, a two-mouthed caterpillar, shells with eyes, and a wasp. Overall, they could of made the graphics better.
Sound - 8
The music for this game is one of the best Commodore 64 soundtracks I've ever heard. I played a hack of this two years ago, and when playing this game I remembered it perfectly. Everyone always praises the title screen music, but personally, I like the main level theme the best. There's not too much too say besides I'm disappointed that there's no song exlucsive to underground levels.
Addictiveness - 7
For some reason, this game is strangely addicting, and when I first found the game, I played it quite a bit. It's not comparable to Super Mario Bros, but it just seems like the game fascinates you to the point of hypnosis, and then you just find yourself playing it every day for a while. The boxart makes you either go through nostalgia, or get you mad enough to point out every fault of this game. I don't even know I played this as much as I did, it's just.. it's addicting.
Story - BLANK
To my knowledge, this game does not have a story, but the goal of the game is to find a giant crystal, and wake yourself up.
Depth - 6
The game has 33 levels, but the levels sometimes copy Super Mario Bros directly, the levels seem uninspired, and the game's ending, some simple text telling Giana to wake up, isn't worth the trouble it takes to beat this game. However, unlike Mario, the game has several modes of transportation other than Warp Pipes, such as doors, elevators, and holes in the ground. Brich Blocks also now contain rocks, on top of being empty, and coins. Speaking of coins, we're collecting diamonds now, and, taking example from Mario again, you can get an extra life from 100 diamonds. Now, I'm not saying all games that do that are rip-offs of Mario, but with this game, it might be with mentioning.
Difficulty - 5
The game isn't extremely hard, but a decent challenge can be found here. Part of the challenge is pressing up to jump. How annoying could it get? Why not Alt, Ctrl, or some other button that could of worked much better? The game can have tricky jumps, and the later levels (such as Stage 31, where you have falling platforms everywhere) make the difficulty much higher, and, once again, it's not exactly worth it for the ending.
Conclusion
Although the game is a complete rip-off of Super Mario Bros, it can still be a fun and reasonably challenging platformer. If you can deal with the odd controls, and bear the semi-bad graphics, and think of it from it's excellent soundtrack, you have an alright game in the Commodore 64 library, and Mario fans may want too see exactly what Time Warp Productions has done with Nintendo's great platforming series.

Graphics 4 Sound 8 Addictive 7 Depth 6 Difficulty The Great Giana Sisters

Overall 8.4 Graphics 4 Sound 8 Addictive 7Depth 6Difficulty 5
Great Giana Sisters Reviewtotaldramaman2
Overall - 6.1Throughout history, there have been many great games, such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, K..
Graphics 4 Sound 8 Addictive 7 Depth 6 Difficulty 5
Review Rating: 4.6/5 Submitted: 05-19-12 Review Replies: 0

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Completeness

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ScarTheScarab 10-08-19 - 09:53 PM
controlling the game requires switching to a different port for controls, which given mame's inability to do such, means one cannot play the game here..
Congo! 10-08-19 - 09:27 AM
yeah, i can't control this game either
pkmntrainersonic 01-06-18 - 08:27 PM
why can't i control it
eggmanfat120 07-27-15 - 03:04 PM
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dragonslayer444 06-07-15 - 05:05 PM
As far as I am concerned this better than mario it more playable.
putku 02-23-15 - 12:30 PM
game have lags :(
RetroGameNinja 05-25-13 - 09:34 AM
'The Brothers are History!' Yeah Right
ClearAsCrystal 08-14-12 - 05:11 AM
I guess it's okay for a Mario bros. knockoff
RetroGameNinja 08-01-12 - 03:14 PM
Oh wow.
Jordanv78 08-01-12 - 02:44 PM
One of the worst Super Mario Bros ripoffs in a long time.
Jordanv78 08-01-12 - 02:36 PM
lmao what the heck is this?
totaldramaman2 05-11-12 - 07:03 PM
Does the boxart really say the brothers are history? *is angry*
123Cheese 08-06-11 - 09:38 AM
This is bassicly a super mario bros. ripoff.
Me126546 03-21-11 - 07:38 PM
This game rocks!
Karnella 02-19-11 - 06:38 PM
AHHHH! VIZZED! you rock so much! I cant believe you have this :*

The Great Giana Sisters