Giana Sisters
 

hi all played Giana Sisters today for the first time.
what a game a bit to much like mario but i thing if i played this first i would say mario was to much like this, but any way i put it and had a go but it wouldn't work on my 1200 just got to some color changes on the screen but put the same disk in my 500 and bang it worked.
2 hours had gone by but hay if i wasn't doing that ill be doing the garden lol

ugh, color me stupid but I have big troubles reading that. I need punctuation dude :(

to play it on 1200 you need an hd and whdload
OR a degrader and softkicker (like tude from aminet) with a500 kickstart1.3,
OR a version fixed to work on AGA KS3+ machines

great game... could play this without losing my first life... put this down to the fact I cdn't get past a certain jump on stage 30 or 31... kept hitting my head until I realised I could ease off on the up pressure and cut the length/height of my jump and slip in to the tunnel entrance...

after finishing the game I devoted the following months to trying to get the best score I could... deliberately dying in screens prior to large hidden crystal rooms... I remember achieving 89,000 or there abouts but never quite hitting 90,000

good luck ;)

@pbareges

iv been thinking about getting whdload. seems like every ones using it, is it worth getting it?

You have a nice A1200 machine. Yes, it is worth for sure. :agree

I have always deplored this game.
Why would anyone play this, SM Bros. is far superior.

If I remember correctly it's exactly the same as SMB 1. Cause SMB was never released on the Amiga Giana Sisters was very popular. I have played it on my C64 and than on the Amiga and really liked it. Later on when I played SMB with an emulator I recognized that Giana Sisters is a ripoff, but it's still a great game :great

Wrong. Giana Sisters has better graphics, sound and level design.

It is a matter of opinion, I suppose: there is no right or wrong.

Just less uninformed opinions: mine.

I find the controls sluggish and the graphics/sounds characterless. And relatively speaking, it is not technically/artistically superior.
(And the Amiga has better scrolling platformers than this shameless clone, in my opinion.)

but it's game from 1988

Japanese (and US) release of SMB was 1985...

I think s2325 meant on the Amiga there was no game like it before 1988.

yes, I don't remember any

I don't like platforms, but I ever loved Great Giana Sisters. I think it worths a try for ever arcade games fan.

since everyone is voicing an opinion, i'm with oneshotdead - a shameless and awful clone , but i cant stand mario games either.

my favourite thing about this game is the cracktro - and i'm usually no fan of those either.

Well, it's a clone, buit it is more difficult than Super Mario Bross and more fast: you have less time to end levels.

I like it, so I decided to add a poll ;)

My vote reflects the fact I played it far more than any of the mario games, which I tired of quickly!

It's one of the most overrated Amiga games, in my opinion...

Giana was cool on C64, definitely not on Amiga. I've never played Mario.