Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!netcom!maffett From: maffett@netcom.UUCP (Tim Maffett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: The Great Giana Sisters Message-ID: <11194@netcom.UUCP> Date: 31 Jul 90 01:47:14 GMT References: <13981@shlump.nac.dec.com> <8548@mirsa.inria.fr> Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 12 In article <8548@mirsa.inria.fr> buffa@mirsa.inria.fr writes: >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 I BOUGHT Great Giana Sisters in a shop in Basel in summer of 1988. When I returned to the states I saw it at HT electronics for 1/2 as much. So it was available in stores for quite sometime. tim