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For me it was decades later that I finally realized that Mario and Luigi were not in fact cheap rip-offs of Giana and Maria and it was the other way round.
by weinzierl 2y ago
For me it was decades later that I finally realized that Mario and Luigi were not in fact cheap rip-offs of Giana and Maria and it was the other way round.
- DiabloD3 2y agoThe Great Giana Sisters also had Chris Huelsbeck do the music. And, arguably, Giana wasn't a cheap rip off. It was clearly inspired by it, and a better game on a better platform.
- badsectoracula 2y agoIt wasn't cheap but also it wasn't better either. The controls and physics are very stiff in Great Giana Sisters. To me it always felt more like a tech demo, though that could be said for a lot of games of the era.
- bonzini 2y agoThe Great Giana Sisters was a legitimate game though—while the gameplay was obviously almost identical to Super Mario Bros, code wise it was technically very advanced as far as C64 games went. The way you phrased it seems like it was a bootleg version of the NES game. But Nintendo was just as litigious back then, so the game didn't last long.