Giana Sisters

These games are remakes of The Great Giana Sisters, a 1987 Commodore 64 game that was in turn a clone of Super Mario Bros, so close that Nintendo pressured the publisher (Rainbow Arts) to withdraw the game from sale.

Giana Sisters was originally released at the Mekka & Symposium 1998, it was the winning entry in the 32k game competition. It runs at an uncommon 360×240 resolution (another game that used it is Albion) and uses the graphics of the 16-bit (Amiga, Atari ST) port of The Great Giana Sisters, slightly enhanced. The higher resolution allows for a black border as in the original Commodore 64 version.

The full game, with further enhanced graphics, more levels and other improvements was released later in the same year, and finally, for Christmas, the X-Mas'98 Special Edition. The next year Rainer Sinsch started working on a Windows game that sticks less strictly to the Commodore 64 original, Giana Worlds.

If you like Giana Sisters, you might like Mario & Luigi.

Download

• Giana Sisters 32k
• Giana Sisters PC (with source code)
• Giana Sisters X-Mas'98 Special Edition

Links

• Giana Sisters screenshots
• Rainer Sinsch
• The Great Giant Sisters
• Five popular German games