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From: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr (Michel Buffa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: The Great Giana Sisters
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Date: 30 Jul 90 08:12:58 GMT
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In article <13981@shlump.nac.dec.com>, owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve
Owen) writes:
> 
> Have any of you ever heard of a game called "THE GREAT GIANA SISTERS"?
> 
> It's a great game that is like Mario Bros, but tons better.  It's real old, 
> probably about 3 or 4 years old.  Great graphics, great sound, and simply 
> fantastic game play.  It's easy to learn, yet very chalenging.
> 
> A bunch of friends and I for the most part agree that it's the best game for 
> the Amiga that we've played.  We've played for hours on end.
> 
> Now here's the problem.  My friend had a copy, and I got a copy from
him.  Now 
> please DON'T go labeling us as pirates.  We would buy this game in a second, 
> and the only reason we have copies is because we haven't been able to
find it 
> anywhere, and couldn't find it before we got copies.  In fact, almost no one 
> has ever heard about it, or knew that it existed.
> 
> I've called places, and posted messages, and still no luck.  The best answer 
> I've gotten from a retailer is "We don't have any more", which could
mean just 
> about anything.
> 
> If anyone knows who makes it, or where I can buy a copy, please let me
know so 
> I can pick it up.

Great Giana Sister has never been available in the shops because of a Mario
Bros Copyright Violation. Rainbow Arts, the great German company which made
recently TURRICAN (a very good game, like almost all of the Rainbow Arts
games), produced Great Giana Sister a few years ago, but as soon as the
magazines published a test (and before the game was out), Nintendo attacked
Rainbow Arts because GGS was too close to Mario Bros. At this time, Raibow
Arts was a small company and decided not to fight with Nintendo, so the game
was never marketed. Rainbow Arts had the same problem with a game called
Katakis, a shoo'em'up that was too close to R-TYPE. Finally the game was
modified and marketed under the name of DENARIS. It was modified a second time
and marketed under the name of R-TYPE by activision who bought the rights of
the game to IREM. Instead of writing their own R-TYPE, the guys from
Activision just made a deal with Rainbow arts, as they already wrote an R-TYPE
clone so close to the original.

So: Rainbow arts doesn't make original games, they copy everybody, but so what?
They make fucking great games !
TURRICAN, GREAT GIANA SISTER, X-OUT, R-TYPE, ROCK'N'ROLL,... The best game
company ? Certainly.

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