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Contents.Voting of the C64-Wiki-User (10=the best Vote):8.81 points at 113 votes (rank 5).You need to be logged in to cast a vote.C64Games106th July 2014 - 'highlight' - 39601 downsC64.COM910th July 2014 - 9 out of 10 points - 48329 downsLemon6496th June 2014 - 8,6 out of 10 points - 333 votesKultboy.com96th June 2014 - 8,73 out of 10 points - 109 votesThe Legacy96th July 2014 - 'excellent' - 78 votesReady64813th July 2014 - 8,45 out of 10 points - 33 votesGameBase6410'A Classic!' ASM8Issue February 1988 - 10 out of 12 pointsHappy Computer8Games Special March 1988 - 79%Powerplay8Issue February 1987 - 80%ACE7Issue August 1988 - 701 points - p.56Commodore Force8Issue May 1993 - 80% - p.16Issue October 1993 - 80% - p.56Commodore User8Issue June 1988 - 8 out of 10 points - p.16Games Machine8Issue July 1988 - 82% - p.61Zzap!6410Issue July 1988 - 96% - p.18Description. The Startscreen: The title screen of 'The Great Giana Sisters' is scrolling from right to left.The game The Great Giana Sisters (only written in the Gianna) is a fantastic from the year 1987. The original version and program code was developed on a. The game was developed by the game company and was published by the German publisher.

Giana Sisters looks like the similair and sucessfull game, but finally it was only a great clone. The C64 scene and players ignored that. Today Giana Sisters is one of the popular and famous computer games on the 'bread box'.StoryOne night, when little Giana from Milano was fast asleep, she had a nightmare. Giana found herself in a wondrous world with strange creatures, who want to prevent her from going home.

Here everything was huge and strange. Giana can only leave this world, if she finds a huge jewel. On the way she can collect diamonds and many extras.

Fortunately she is not alone, because her sister Maria has also this dream. The world consists of 33 levels and in the last stage Giana can find the needed gem, to return to her world.Design. The game The Great Giana Sisters is played on a 2D screen, whose contents scrolls only to the left out of view. Sound and music are well harmonized with the game and today are computer game music classicals. The sound magier composed this game music, which is one of his bests and famous works.

The are very good and cutely animated. The game play is also very good playability by a exact joystick query. The coder team and developed one of the best game for the. The game contents 33 stages or levels with different game music songs.

Similair the game are splitted the stages into normal world and underground (or cave) levels. After a level part exists final bosses, which aren't easy to besiege. If this game is played with two players, the second player steers Maria, who has different colour of hair and clothes.

The game is controlled by joystick in port 2 of the C64. At every re-start you can choose whether to play with Giana (press 1 or fire button) or Maria (press 2).

With the joystick you steer to the right or left and you can jump, when you press the joystick upwards. The longer you press, the longer Giana stays in the air.

By combining running and jumping, longer jumps are possible. The fire button comes into play, when you make a small punk out of Giana or Maria. The hairdo is hidden in one of the stones. Now she can also destroy stones and has the possibility to find thunderbolts later. The thunderbolts are activated by pressing the fire button. There are three thunderbolts: the simple bolt (vanishes with the first contact with a wall), the double bolt (the shot is reflected by the walls)and the strawberry, which makes the shot hit the nearest target automatically, also through walls.

With the target-searching shot (strawberry) you have to be careful! Some monsters, most notably little bugs or mice 'catch' this shot and are not killed by it, instead the shot comes to rest on the back of the bug. For this time you cannot shoot again.

The bug is also more dangerous than other vulnerable monsters as it can kill you occasionally when you jump at them, especially in tight places like the infamous stage 8!. After the strawberry there is an alarm clock, a bomb and a water drop.

The alarm clock and bomb are activated by the space key. The alarm clock temporarily stops the time (which is practical, e.g. To jump easily over to bouncing balls), the bomb kills directly all killable monsters on the screen and the water drop makes immune against fire (Be careful: in some versions the water drop doesn't work properly).

Alarm clock and bomb have to be collected again after use. All items are lost with the next item collected, so Giana can lose fire immunity right after collecting the 1-up lollipop. The Dragon's head part cannot kill the player, so it can be reached without problem. This bug was fixed in the 7A3 version of Giana Sisters II. The Dragon, the Spider and even the Elevator can be shot down by multiple lightning balls. That gives you no points, except for the user made sequels like Giana Sisters II and the levelpacks by Giana Sisters Construction Kit. You can walk through red peaks cautiously.

If there is a row of red peaks, you can jump between them as only the head of the peak can hurt the player. One of the game's major bug is the fall from the edge bug. When you reach an edge of a platform from above, you can stand there for a second then fall down despite not moving forward.

This bug first occurred in the infamous stage 6. The bug was fixed again in the 7A3 version of Giana Sisters II. Boulders falling from blocks hit by Giana's head cannot kill the player, but can speed up the timer a lot. Beware of standing there too long. Fires can be reached from the right side without giving death to the player.

One nitpick in the game is when you let half of a yellow item block scroll to the left of the screen, and you hit the other (right) half of it, the block can be seen again later on the stage's next screen. In the game there are hidden WARP-spots (Warp-Blocks). No similarity with the original version: Nintendo DS.Clones and hacks The first unofficial Giana Sisters hack, called 'Giana Sisters 2' was created by the team 'New Wave'. It has 32 new levels, and has a feature to play these mixed with the old ones in the 'grand loop' section. Stage 33 for the new levels doesn't exist, and a bug occurs in the game when stage 32 is finished (also stage 30 of the old ones had been removed). This is also the first Giana Sisters hack, where the maps (including bonus sections) are loaded from the disk instead of packed into one PRG file. This made the stages and particularly the bonus sections a lot harder to load with freezing music for a few seconds, as there is no proper flow between the levels.Several more Giana Sisters hacks have been made with the german level editor called 'Giana Sisters Construction Kit'.

The program was made by Professor Knibble and Sandy, and has a german tutorial as well. The editor has no level packager, and has several bugs which makes it hard to use.

Due to legal issues, the software wasn't released officially, and only a few programmers used it for their own levelpacks.Known hacks (with the assigned disk number) written with the construction kit:. Gitty's Dreams I (A01) - created by Gitty. Gitty's Dreams II (A02) - created by Gitty, Bine, Sandy and Prof. Knibble.

Power Sisters I (A03) - created by Posocopi Waldkirch. Frankie's Horror Trip I (A04) - created by Frankie. Frankie's Horror Trip II (A05) - created by Frankie.

The Furry Knibble Girls I (A06) - created by Prof. Lunaria story download. Knibble. The Gitty's News (A07) - created by Gitty and Bine (aka 'The Gittys')All the authors have been greeted in the supporting text files of the games and also in the instruction files of the Giana Sisters Construction Kit.The latest Giana Sisters hack called 'Giana Sisters II' was released in 2005, and is often considered as the best one.

It was created by the team '7A3' in 1993, led by Merlinthe7thSign, originally with a commercial purpose. It fixed some of the original game bugs, removed some sprite issues, added better collision detection, and added 41 new levels. Some of the enemies were changed, and the hack also has some new features like swimming and flying.

The leveldesign here is very faithful to the original game, although there are some new style levels like hell and heaven. The ARMN code had been removed from this hack, and levels after stage 14 have been loaded from the disk (the flow is better than in Giana Sisters 2).A hack called 'Super Mario Bros' was released by the team 'Abyss' which changed Giana's sprite to Mario, and changed some other sprites as well to make to game look more mario-ish. The end result was a disappointment as the new graphics doesn't have the quality neither of the original game, nor of the real Super Mario Bros.' I Want More Diamonds' is a Giana sisters based platform game, but was made with a different engine.Remakes Giana's Return is a free, inofficial follower with coloured graphics in retro style. There are 7 worlds with each 8 levels and and each one end boss to manage.Giana Family is a remake, where the graphics have not really changed.

But the fun is still there.Bugs. In Level 30 exists a green bonus item without function. It is also a green sprite. This bug isn't negative for the game play, but you lost one bonus item in this stage or level. Be carefully by using the shooting options after collecting the strawberry! A few monsters collect the shooted ball and blocked so the shooting option so long if the shooted ball is presented in the screen! This is a really bug!Video.

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Contents.Plot The player takes the role of Giana (referred to as 'Gianna' in the scrolling intro and also the intended name before a typo was made on the cover art and the developers just went with that rather than having the cover remade), a girl who suffers from a nightmare, in which she travels through 32 stages full of monsters, while collecting ominous diamonds and looking for her sister Maria. If the player wins the final battle, Giana will be awakened by her sister. Gameplay. Giana after obtaining a Fire WheelThe Great Giana Sisters is a 2D side-scrolling arcade game in which the player controls either Giana or her sister Maria. The game supports alternating 2 players, with the second player taking control of Maria.Each level contains a number of dream crystals, which gives points when collected in order to make the game's high score.

An extra life can be gained by collecting 100 dream crystals. Extra lives can also be found in the form of hidden 'Lollipop' items.Enemies can be defeated by jumping on them or shooting them after obtaining the relevant power-ups.

The enemies include owls, rolling eyeballs, flesh-eating fish and deadly insects. The 'fire wheel' transforms Giana into a punk with the ability to crush rocks by jumping and hitting them from below. The 'lightning bolt' awards Giana 'dream bubbles', a single projectile shot. 'Double lightning' gives her the ability to shoot recoiling projectiles.

'Strawberries' give her the ability to shoot homing projectiles. There is one defensive item in the game, the 'water drop', which protects Giana against fire. A number of special items can also be triggered that affect the entire screen, such as the 'clock', which freezes all enemies on-screen, and the 'magic bombs', which kill all enemies. These items are found in the item blocks scattered around the stages.There are two types of stages in the game: an 'overworld' and an 'underground' stage. The 'overworld' stages feature green scenery and pipe-shaped objects, along with bottomless pits for Giana to avoid.

The 'underground' stages feature additional hazards such as water and fire, as well as bosses.There are a total of 32 stages in the game. Hidden 'warp blocks' can be found to jump through portions of the game.Development History The Great Giana Sisters was programmed by, with graphics by and a soundtrack composed by under the label of Time Warp Production Inc. The first original game version was released in 1987 on. Shortly after, it was released on,.

The license is held by, who have developed the sequel.Alleged lawsuit According to several urban legends, Nintendo initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against Time Warp Productions and Rainbow Arts because of similarities to its new game Super Mario Bros., but there has never been such a lawsuit. Rather, Nintendo directly influenced The Great Giana Sisters being withdrawn from sale, as the company had already done with other games.Several factors influenced the withdrawal of the game, including conspicuous similarities: the general gameplay and the first level of The Great Giana Sisters are nearly identical in layout to the first stage found in 's The immediate similarity to Super Mario Bros. Ensured that The Great Giana Sisters was quickly noticed by both the public and the video game industry itself.

Nintendo urged the makers of The Great Giana Sisters to withdraw the game from sale, arguing that it was obvious copyright infringement. Time Warp Productions and Rainbow Arts immediately stopped production and, at the same time, the game began vanishing from stores. The rarity of the game has led to copies of it becoming collector's items. Release The game has been ported to numerous systems since its release.

A planned port for the was reviewed in magazines, though eventually cancelled due to legal pressures. In 1993, Dutch publisher Sunrise released a version for the 2, programmed by Jan van Valburg. Unofficially, the game has been on,. An unofficial clone of the Commodore 64 version was also made for the. Reception ReceptionReview scoresPublicationScore96%Power Play (DE)80%ASMASM HitLemon649/10.