Great Giana Sisters, The

I always thought it was overrated.

The Great Giana Sisters

+ despite being an obvious copy of a famous title, it has its own distinctive "personality" and well deserved cult status
+ entertaining to play, good to look at, nice to listen to
+ a true classic C64 gem made by enthusiastic professionals

- the tight time limit often spoils the fun
- occasional bugs and glitches
- losing a life - and therefore losing abilities - on later levels can make them a pain to complete

9/10

Having played this game on both the C64 and the Amiga, both play very similarly with the C64 experience being marginally better due to the control of the main character(s) feeling that little bit lighter in operation. Sure, the whole game is a rip-off, but at least it's a very good one!

A remarkably brazen theft from everyones least favourite games company and a sign of what the corporate scumbags would do for the next 40 plus years. This is a great platformer although the 'floaty' jumping takes a while to get used to. Trenz & Hulsbeck would go on to redefine what the 64 was capable of.

Back in my neighbourhood us we used to go to 'the man's house who was some guy that would copy his games for us for $2. It was a revelation to us and we would visit him and his kids every few weeks excited to see his latest stuff. The Great Giana Sisters was the game I remember he recommended I get and after loading this up I was totally hooked. This Mario clone is very well made, the levels are fun to explore with the odd secret to find. I remember it was not a hard game and I clocked it fairly easily but would constantly return for another go. They have brought back the franchise with Twisted Dreams which is excellent too. This is one of the best pure platform games on C64.

Finished the game before my friends did.
Super!
When this game came out, I had never heard of mario bros, I only had giana sisters.

In terms of a C64 game, it's not too bad. It scratched that SMB itch if you didn't have an NES, for sure. But overall, it lacks much of the polish that made SMB a classic. I'll give them an A for effort.

In my personal opinion - this is the best C64 game ever and my first game I have ever seen on C64 (actually it was GS with sprites changed to Mario and Luigi).

Great graphics, memorable sounds and music, colorfull, joyfull, nice animation, just superb. I have spent years to master it. Even now - after like 20 years, I'm still able to make an almost perfect run with only like 2 lives lost (with using warps). Great memories, a good game even with todays standards.

For my it's a 10/10.

Poor peoples super mario. I just love this game. I had C64 so I had no super mario, but anyway who is that? We have Giana !!! The game is superb! The scroll, the controll everything just right, and the music... Awesome. One of the few games what aged well. When I started testing it, I said "ooooh OK, it's late let me play 10 lvl out 33 and I go to sleep"... Well around 3am after grabing the big crystal...

I always played with trainer, this is one of those games what still a challange even if you have unlimited lives.

10/10 this is a MUST

Tested version: Remember +9
Tested on: C128 NTSC - OK

Use real hardware for real experience!

I had this for my AMIGA not a bad little game.

Good mario clone played it loads but smb is better more playable

Not a patch on the expert level design, music and controls of Super Mario Bros.

The levels are quite short and don't give me any feeling of actually working my through a level. Controls are floaty and the enemies are the most generic unidentifiable things I have seen in a game. The level graphics are pretty uninspiring too.

What it holds it up is some okay level design (mostly copied from SMB) and catchy music. The title screen is especially nice.

A good game in it's own right but only good, not great like it's master

While I wish by 1987 german game design had moved away a little more from the 'let's make a game like... ' starting point, it doesn't change the fact that Giana Sisters is, to this day, still the best example of a scrolling platformer on the C64 imho. The reason why I like it so much compared to e. G. The much more pretty Mayem is that Giana Sisters never becomes frustrating. The very floaty controls maybe make the game a little TOO easy, but it's just so much more easy to pick up and enjoy compared to all the rock hard platformers on this system.
I also like Chris Huelsbeck's music. Even though he often seemed more comfortable with Paula, he did a good job here from the catchy intro tune with digitized drums to the laid back in-game music.
The biggest flaw of this game is easily the the cover art. The german one is a mediocre try to make something sexy when it rather should be something cute and cartoony and the UK one is just one of the ugliest I've ever seen.

A rich (or lucky) man's super mario bros. More like...

A poor man's super mario bros.

Played it with my sister over & over again

One of the best platformers for the C64. 10/10.

Obviously no Mario beater, but a fine little variant in its own right, and as good as it was ever going to get without a NES. Much better music, too. 8/10.

The Great Giana Sisters is so much better than that lousy console game it was inspired on; that one obviously was designed to entertain little children, ha! All this beautiful action, color, graphics, music and playability in one single load- only the Commodore 64 can do this trick.
I give this game a solid 9.

I was 14 when this game was out. Everyone at school loved it. No one even knew anything about lawsuits. And (surprisingly from today's point of view) no one even knew it was a Mario variation! Mario was only known as the character in Donkey Kong. This game, Giana Sisters, absoutely deserves its cult status.

Classic

Great Giana Sisters may have been a Mario rip-off but taken for itself, it still was one of the best scrolling platformers on the C64. Gameplay is smooth as silk, graphics are good, just like Chris Hülsbeck's music and the in-game sound effects. It has a well-balanced difficulty level that caters to beginners and pros alike and is extremly addictive, just like the original SMB. The makers got sued by Big N over it, the similarities to Mario are very obvious, down to the the "inverted" name of the game - Great Giana Sisters vs. Super Mario Brothers... Still, I think Nintendo should have countered Time Warp Production's game with a SMB conversion for C64 of their own instead of taking legal action. Sadly, this was their standard in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, back then, driving competitors out of the market via lawsuits and legally gagging dev'er or distributor contracts was Big N's fave pastime. Ah well... Rip-off or not, Giana Sisters is an excellent game that will always be part of the C64 hall of fame - Quality Made in Germany! . 9/10.

It's alright--I liked it. Controls a little slow, but so are the baddies--
Music's pretty good and it's easy to make it to the end of level (and that's saying something for me).
I put my C=64 stamp of approval upon this one.
6/10

Distinctly average platformer that wouldn't be nearly as well-regarded if it hadn't been for the massive controversy around it (honestly, is there any 64 user at the time who HADN'T heard about the whole Nintendo lawsuit?). Consequently the first game most people hunted down when they got their first C64 emulator.

Plays like a competent, second-grade Mario clone. Decent for 64 users at the time, but these days when you can just boot up a NES emulator and play the original, there's hardly much point.

Very nice platform for the C64. Good gameplay and awesome music.
but I prefered the Mario Bros

Indeed a very nice platform for the C64. Good gameplay and awesome music. But as a clone I think it's a little slow compared to the original SMB. And I really miss a jump button.

I guess I'm not a true fan, but it's still a good game and I play it from time to time.

Playing this for the frist time was almost a revelation!

Not a massive fan of platform games, but I enjoyed this a lot. Good fun.

Legendary gameplay, nice little cute sprites, good animations, bonus levels, music and backgrounds.. A lot to play.. Trenz uber alles

Although it's very good, I never liked this to the level of some people here . Later, when I got a NES, I found Super Mario Bros to be much more playable. It's by no means a bad game, but this game has a rather rabid fanboy following of sorts, perhaps due to the story behind it.

And for the record, I think there's better C64 games than the original SMB anyway - or at least equal to.

Fantastic game, great music.
Still play it almost every day at work (during break time offcourse )

What a laugh! I actually found this more enjoyable than Super Mario Brothers! Especially when you get the first power-up and it looks like her perm has been electrocuted! Brilliant!

Best game ever

I played the Amiga version to death (the best platformer on the Amiga) and was amazed by the C64 version - it was just as good and looked pretty much the same.

A true classic!

Mario and Luigi wish they were this sweet.

And the title song for this is way better than

dodododododo do dododod yeah, dumb.



Theyre both fun games for different systems

Ditto with dksmfb86. The best thing ever to happen on the C64.

Classic...

This game can never be a 10 since it's a rip off of the greatest game ever made. HOWEVER, it is a very good clone, fun, and the level design is excellent (an area where many platformer games fail). Excellent overall... 9/10

Addictive Mario clone. Sure the controls are a pain, and there are lots of bugs, but it's quite good fun to play.

I don't get the fuzz about this game, in my book it says "OVERRATED" in capital letters.

I would not really call it "unoriginal", but I admit it's not a major breakthrough. On the other hand, this was the first decent (or good) side-scrolling Platformer for the C64 (I think).
Nicely done GFX (just Giana on the Title-Screen looks a little awkward... ) and Sound (of cours, Huelsbeck at work!), and _mostly_ smooth gameplay. And that mostly sometimes spoils it a little. Collision is sometimes a little flaky, which can be frustrating, and some gfx-bugs are ugly, but not really disturbing.
I've seen many of Trenz's games suffer from these flaws, Turrican is a good example, you have shots standing in midair, sometimes "deterioating" Background and so on.

The Level Design of TGGS is quite good, compared to other games, but in my opinion there's not a real "learning curve", but mor like steps and hurdles. After LVL 8 it becomes significantly more difficult, and after that you only have certain difficult jumps at some Levels (11, 19, 24, IIRC) but that's it.

But still this is a true classic, I spent lots of time on this one

On eof my fave platform games in C64 and Amiga

9 out of 10 - C64
10 out of 10 - Amiga

When I owned a C64 I only played the SMB Hack of this game. I always assumed it was Super Mario Brothers ported to the C64 legally. I never knew about Giana or any of the trouble with Nintendo.

I know I really liked the SMB version and I played both it and SMB on the Nintendo, but as was often the case I like the stuff on the C64 better.

Having recently discovered this game, I am pretty impressed with it as an original game. I must confess to still enjoying the SMB Hack more, but this game deserves Kudos for out Nintendoing Nintendo.

-Ray

I grew up with SMB ( I'm 16) I never even played it. Untill not so long ago. And yes, it looks just as much like SMB as GEOS looks like WINDOWS ... Grrr, , stupid bill gates... Cool game.

Great graphics and mind-boggling sound but the level design seemed to be lacking, especially compared to the game's "role model". Still definitely worth playing, though.

As has been mentioned, the music for this game is great. I always like the animation of that dragon thingy, and the fact you could get up to the top of the screen and run "above" the underground levels (while jumping into the score area). Classy.

Never played SMB so can't compare and don't really care. The Amiga version was good but missed something for me (the title screen wasn't quite as nice?!)

I liked this a lot. I hated Nintendo, but I secretly coveted SMB. I enthusiastically accepted this as a fine substitute, warts and all. My biggest peeve, though, which I didn't see anyone mention, was that once you were "Super" Giana or Maria, one collision with an enemy could kill you outright instead of just reduce you back to normal. Wasn't that the point of becoming "Super" (aside from gaining the ability to destroy blocks and after further power ups to shoot disks)? Would it have been that difficult to program in? But great otherwise, especially in a single load.

Fine game, but not perfect by any means. Lacks something that SMB 1 has. Still, a solid 8 is a good rating for GS.

I hate this game, 'cause it's just a plumber-rip.

Just KIDDING!

I literally loved this game, especially the music. It also wasn't too difficult, so little kiddies like me ( )could play it until the last level (unlike lots of other games). Great and lots of fun !!!

A mario clone which can't hold up to the original. Although I detest (sorry) NES and other consoles (gimme a COMPUTER baby) I must be honest and say that the NES version of this game was far more better. I saw it, played and threw it away. Couldn't please me much. I would like to make a positive comment on the graphics and music which are done great. The rest, like gameplay... Sucks. Sorry, just my humble opinion.

As great as the Amiga version

Sakura

Well, this may be overrated, IN PRIZE though (nowadays)...

Great game although the Amiga version I favoured. The old mario clone that kicked ass and made Nintendo throw the toys out the pram! I'm sticking with my original views on this as it was a cracking little game!

A fantastic C64 game. Not overrated at all, one of the greatest platform games in history. A true classic!

As for the lesser comments, everyone has their own opinion but for a platformer on a system without mario, this was thouroughly enjoying as well as addictive

Somehow, I have never liked Giana Sisters. Neither on C64 nor on Amiga However this is a very good platformer.

I agree with Mountain Man. 4/10 OVERRATED!

Not bad, but I really don't think it compares to Shigeru Miyamoto's classic. One thing Super Mario Bros. Definitely has over this one is spot on controls. Gina Sisters just feels a bit light and loose for lack of a better description, which lessens the enjoyment.

I guess it's nice for C64 fans to have a Mario-like game to call their own, but honestly, I'd rather play the original than settle for an average imitation.

This ist one of the greatest jump/run ever made. The game music is inmortal! I have tears in my eyes when I hear it now 20 years later. :/

Just like super mario bros but much funnier to play with joystick and not that horrible nintendo-pad

Hi very cool game platform nice graphics excellent gameplay C64 version cool

I used to own the original of this. Seeing what it fetches on Ebay now makes me wish I handn't thrown all my 64 games away when I got a Playstation!

Super Mario was a good game and would rate 6 but Giana sisters takes it all the way up to 10. Giana Sister put the edge to the game and gave it good musik, better grafics and a great feeling to the game...
It was for sure one of the games that we played most. Well I can count many games that we played the most... But this was for sure one of them =)

I too played both this version and the SMB hacked version as well as hard'n'heavy on both the C64 and Amiga and I still think the C64 version of giana played better somehow than the Amiga version... A classic ripoff of SMB but on the C64!!

I played this a lot at the time and thought it was excellent. I never 'got' the whole 2D Super Mario Brothers concept much (first mario I played was on SNES, kinda boring really), Super Mario Sunshine was cool and I got that, however, recently I got the original SMB for the wife (she used to play it) for the GBA/GC Player and gave that a few goes, still wasn't into it that much but it was playable, although I loaded this up to show wifey and it didn't play half as good as I remember at all in comparison. This wasn't better than SMB at all, not bad for those who didn't have a NES, but no way better in hindsight. Interesting theory about RA licensing SMB, I can't see that Nintendo thought it kicked SMB's arse, probably rejected it in truth. Harsh I know, but IMO fair. Still a great game though.

My favourite game! You could kill the bosses with the shooting balls for an extra bonus -just like in Mario Bros. The challenge was to arrive at the boss with the item...

Yes, it's a less than perfect mario ... Erm... Conversion. But it's not bad by any means, it's fun to play and whilst there are a couple of bugs, it doesn't deserve a 1 rating. Besides, can you really rate a game so badly just because it was a clone? Do you rate tetris games badly because they aren't as good as the original? Baah, a lot of people on the C64 wanted to play mario, this gave them the chance.

I realize that a lot of people loved this game back in the day because it was basically Mario for the C64, but IMO it sucks boo-hiney (and yes I did play it just to see what all the fuss was about). Put this game side by side with Super Mario Bros, and Mario is the better game by far. This one is just horrible.

At the risk of turning this into a forum (this is my last "review" I see Trantor64's point. In USA however, NES was very popular, easily moreso than the C-64 by the late 80s. Thus, the experience I had was much different than people in other countries. Therefore, I stand by my abyssmal rating of a "1" for this rubbish.

Lasafrog, I think you are missing the point of why this game was so huge, both on the C64 and the Amiga. It did in fact attract a law suit, and the Amiga version was never even released (if I'm wrong on this one, please let me know). People loved it because it WAS Mario! For many, especially in Europe and South America (where I lived at the time), consoles were virtually unknown or had such small user bases that this became the only way to enjoy a game like Mario. Had Nintendo just gone ahead and either A) Sublicensed the original game or B) ported it themselves, they probably would have made a fortune.

This is a blatant rip off of Super Mario Brothers in every conceivable way without risking a lawsuit. For reasons I am unable to grasp, this is wildly adored by C-64 users; seemingly those that disliked/couldn't afford a NES. Fact - Super Mario Bros. Was more responsive, less buggy, cleaner looking, and came first. This game had decent music, but nothing even close to the catchy melodies in Super Mario. I can even recall, back in 1987, being thoroughly disgusted with the obviousness of this Mario clone, and though I was not an owner of a NES myself, I had no problems admitting the vast superiority of Super Mario Bros. To this drivel. Forgive me for the harshness, but I found this game horrid then, and I find it downright appalling now.

The sound is great.

Wow, what a game!
Played it hours and hours, day and night... Great chiptunes, legendary graphics and amazing addictive gameplay.

WOW!

I recall that you can DOUBLE JUMP for the coin blocks (stars???) - and get two every time when really you should have only be able to get one. Give it a try - just jumpjump instead of jumping once.

The very best game!

I spend nearly whole my childhood playing this amazing, fabulous etc game! There were other games too. But this was and till is my favorite!!!

This truly was an excellent game. However, the version of this game I had was a hacked version. Actually, the characters were hacked so that they were all very close to the Mario Bros game. In fact, Mario himself was in the game in the hacked version. Very good game play. A very large game that I never understood how they managed to write as a memory resident program!

Great Giana Sisters is nothing else than Super Mario Bros! In the 80s, I didn't have a Nintendo console at home, so nothing better could happen to me than this marvellous game! One of chris hülsbecks best sound-score, the title-track is great C64-music!!! 10/10

This game is so much better than Super Maro Bros. In my opinion.

What could I say... Excelent grafichs, gameplay and music! This game is brilliant! Those German fuckers did it again (they also created the two Turricans). PS: Why does hardly anybody now that this game is called "The Great Gianna Sisters" (with two N's in 'Gianna'). The girls name where Giana and for the 2nd player Maria. I now even see that also all advertisements call this game 'The Great Giana Sisters', but in the (scrolling) intro you can clearly see Gianna with tho n's... (or was that just a typo) Strange stuff though!

Allthough I always hated the Nintendo I still liked Mario Bros better than this one

OMG! This one's my most favourite C64 game EVER!
Played many times and couldn't get enough!
When I got Amiga, I got this game for Amiga too and played days and days Giana!

Mario Bros with a bird! This was a top game even though it was an obvious rip-off of Mario Bros. Nobody cared accept Nintendo & we didn't care much for them!

Great game C64 version is better than Amiga

OK, we all know it was a rip-off. Who cares... ! It was better than SMB. It was darker, a lot more sharp edges. Didn't have that huge cute/fun factor like SMB, there was a lot more danger in this one. I think SMB was a good warm up for this one. Although I have to admit, I finished this game very quickly.

33 Levels of happiness !!
Giana-Sisters is my favourite game !

It does borrow the basic formula from SMB, but GGS is still not a simple clone. Me and my friends all loved this game - it manages to capture some of the magic Nintendo formula, and the music is great... One of the Top-10 C-64 games, IMO.

This game almost made me fail an entire school year. Nuff said

One of my all time faves.
PURE GAMEPLAY.
Another C64 Classic
10/10

A much better game than the SMB... SUPER SUPER!!!

I like playing the oline version(tho it sux). Too bad Nintendo to it off cuz I never got to play it (i was probably not born when it was dismissed) I live in the usa so noone knows what a C64 is(sounds like n64 lol)

Oh, this is so cute! They didn't rip off SMB, oh no. What they did was take a concept and actually better it, making The Great Giana Sisters the most playable platformer of all time, including every gaming machine that has been or will be. The chubby Italian plumbers doesn't stand a chance against the spunky Giana sisters. This game has got an idea of a gameplay, if you know what I mean. You know exactly how the character reacts when you control her, how much inertia affects the movement when you land your jumps and so on. I never completed the game
but I was very close. Maybe one day I will correct that.

This game makes Super Mario Brothers look extremely tame. One of the most (re-)playable games on the C64 (and in world history), Super Mario Brothers just don't stand a chance against this one.

I can't believe how blatantly they ripped off Super Mario Brothers. I mean, everything from the game mechanics, to the graphics, to the enemies, to the level designs is a shameless ripoff. How hard would it have been to at least give it a different look and some original level concepts? I really can't blame Nintendo for wanting to sue; there's hardly an original idea in this game.

That aside, I guess it's a decent platformer... But I'd still rather play SMB.

When a clone is better than an original all criticism
is discounted. It plays better, its quirky, edgey
and the music is magnificent.

If Carlsberg made Mario-clones it would make this - probably the best.

Non-Nintendo owners didn't missed the excitement Nintendo owners had.
So GSS was a SMB Clone, so what, I mean arnt all platformers - Cool Spot, Chuck Rock, Fire and Ice, Donkey Country Country, all SMB Clones. Then agin SMB is an Apple Panic clone expect the screen scrollls - so there !
GGS RULES - 1987 - TODAY and FOREVER, so shove your Nintendo up your Nose.

Better then super mario brothers in every senc3e of the way... Best side scroller platformer C64 ever seen and on top of that the best sound track together with the turrican series then I've ever heared on a C64 just a top game... Although its ripped from smb then but who gives a F***!!!

This game has GAMEPLAY.

Someone modded this game so it looked exactly like Super Mario Brothers. In fact, I had that version before the original, and I thought the original was the fake!!!

Living proof that we didn't have to buy that Nintendo!!

Score 10

A poor conversion of Mario Bros, IMHO. I don't like it except for the soundtrack.

Hmmmm... The music you have on this site wasn't in the game - or was it?

I think this is one of the best C64 games ever! Used to be my favourite when I passed the days solemny playing the C64 in the early 90's :-) Who needs DirectX anyways?

One of the best platform games I would say but abit easy to beat the game but nice sprites and I think it was better than supermario bros 1 to bad the Developer hade to stop selling the game because Nintendo was complaining it was a remake of super mario

I had the super mario brothers hack - never played the original GGS. As much as I disliked Nintendo at the time, I had to admit that this was simply a poor copy.

This game doesn't need an introduction. The most playable scrolling platformer ever for the C64. Brillant Graphics, Sound, and atmosphere. This platformer will give you endless hours of fun. Its couldn't of been any better! 10/10

Best Super Mario Brothers conversion, propably the best jump and run on the C64 - definitely rainbow arts best game

A great game.. Indeed, but Heavy Metal was a stand alone game, not an version of TGGS!
It was a clone of a clone, hi, hi.. Made by Time Warp !

Awsome game. Closest thing you will find to Super Mario Bros on the C64. I had a version called "Heavy Metal" which was even better. Fun if you are 5 years old through to 50!!

I played the Super Mario hack version and managed to finish it. This is the game that saved me from being jealous of my NES owning friends.

My favourite C64 game

Hi! I'm very enjoy this game! But can anyone tell me what's the differences between Amiga and C64 version?

A Super Mario clone?
Maybe. It's a good game thought.

Nintendo forced it off the market maybe, but I don't know anyone who didn't have one kind of hacked version of GGS. It is the kind of games that almost makes you wanna scream out: "Girl Power" !!!

Super mario rip-off. Great game but the ABYSS re-mix (super mario bros) made it more playable... For some reason!

For all you dumbbells who are ripping this game because it was a 'clone' then know this.. Nintendo licensed SMB to RA and when it was done Nintendo realised this kicked thier own version in the ass and was a lot better to play..
For the person who said 'Sigheru Miyamoto is a genius his work is ripped off all the time.. ' This may be true. But he couldn't come up with a game that couldn't be beat by a lowley 8-bit machine.

Poor old Nintendo beaten by rainbow arts and the humble C64, at there own game. Should never have been with drawn from sale ala katakis!

This is similar to Mario Bros. , but its actually better playable!

For just that reason(s) it was kicked off the market by Nintendo and thus it became no official sucessor to Super Mario. Thats a shame, but official or not, clone or not, who cares, its actually the better game!


(Does everyone rember the A. R. M. I. N. - cheat?)

Fantastic game! Far better than Super Mario Bros! As a collector I've been searching for the original, but it's damn hard to find..

Rip-off of Mario Bros, thing is... IT'S SOO MUCH BETTER! All is forgiven if a rip-off outstrips an original. Mario with girl power.

This game kicks @$$ but it is a rip off of mario. In fact I saw a game that was called super Mario Bros and it was for c-64 and it played just like this. Great game though

Now this is a bit cheeky... As much as I loved this game and great fun as it was, it is just a total rip off of Mario so all credit really should go to Sigheru Miyamoto/ Nintendo.

Yup - seeing Giana Sisters here brought a sleek smile to my face as well =o) I cursed my darn luck to hell, when my 5. 25"disk with this great game dissapeared totally.
Anyways - who wants the Mario-Broz after trying Giana Sisters ??!!??
NOT me. =o)

I loved this game more than Super Mario Bros. This game was simply amazing, with fantastic music to match!
my version had some odd bugs that made the game crash in pretty hilarious ways.

What a ferkin rip-off. No wonder the big N had this removed from the selves. Sigheru Miyamoto is a genius his work is ripped off all the time... They even ripped off the title not one bit of this game was original. It was a shame that Nintendo didn't want to release original games in europe at the time this game came out.

So which came first the sisters or the brothers?

Grew up on this one! Fantastic! Mario can go jump!

Love this game! Grew up on it too. Still play it in an emulator. I am really pissed that my parents sold our Commondore when we got the first pc.

Great graphics! Great music! Greatest game on C64!

Extremelty Playable, Fun, Exciting! ... The older is gets today. The Better is gets. Score: 10/10

Nice variation of SMB with addictive gameplay and cuuuuuute girls. Sadly thrown off the market by Non-tendo

Fantastic game, I grew up on this game!!! It would be fun to try it again.

A great variation on the Super Mario Bros style of play. However, don't expect it replace that game, as its nowhere near as playable but it is a great C64 game. And it was released, just for a short time!

I don't agree with fishduna. C-64 version is great but Amiga version is better in my opinion! Great game!

Aaaw... The cute Commodore classic The Great Giana Siters.
Simply the Best!

Very playable! Perfect 8-bit game. WARNING: This game has been on the AMIGA. I hate it when 16Bits clone classics 8bits. Stick with the 64 version, Amiga version is a shocker !

Fast & furious action and powerful weapons make this enjoyable... But quite as much as Super Mario Bros (where monsters have higher IQ - nothing incredible, yet at least they chase you - and the levels are more inventive, just think of worlds 5-4 or 8-4)... 6/10

*laugh* Addictive and highly-derivative platformer that enjoyed MASSIVE circulation despite the legal hassles! Play it, play it, play it!

A real cute game. One of the best platform games ever for the Commodore64!!

The brothers are history!

This is by far the best C64 game ever not really released - it's still as playable now as it was 12 years ago

That's pure history. The magic team ARMIN, MANFRED and CHRIS defined the whole computerworld with this title and others to follow. Think of the C64 and you think of the - indeed - great Giana Sisters.

This was the game that started my C64-addiction. The graphics are beatifully designed, the musics (deveral pieces, written to fit the mood of the level) are one of the finest ever written for a C64 game. Try pressing all of the letters of "ARMIN" at the same time to jump to the next level (doesn't work in some levels). The game was only sold for a short time because Nintendo wanted to sue Rainbow Arts because they thought the game looked too much like "Mario Brothers".