![]() And, of course, the most logical thing to do is leap right into the vortex after them. You see, Giana is plenty peeved because her precious pile of diamonds got sucked into a black hole that appeared out of nowhere. The other gal you see plastered throughout the advertising is Punk Giana, her powered up form in which she transforms, in an electrified shock, from a precocious, freckled blonde into a feisty rocker ready to blast the baddies. Rather, the game stars the singular Giana. Oddly enough, there are no sisters in Giana Sisters DS. And how sweet it is for US gamers that this excellent platformer just barely squeaked in before the death throes of the original DS. So what sweet irony that after all this time, the Giana Sisters would see a grand revival-officially licensed for the Nintendo DS. These days, there’s little a company can legally do if others choose to ape its successful designs, if they even give a hoot in the first place. Now fast-forward over 20 years, and video game knockoffs are a dime a dozen. So despite being a legitimately high quality game in its own right, Great Giana Sisters was regulated to the memories of C64 fans that still consider it one of the platform’s finest. They even had the cojones to boldly exclaim, “The brothers are history!” Well, as the saying goes, payback is a something-something, and it was Great Giana Sisters that was to be history, as Nintendo’s army of lawyers hit the pavement and successfully forced Rainbow Arts to pull the game from store shelves. In 1987, during the height of Nintendo’s iron grip on the gaming populace, a publisher by the name of Rainbow Arts released Great Giana Sisters-a blatant, shameless clone of Super Mario Bros.-for the Commodore 64 and a multitude of other computer platforms. ![]()
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