Talk:The Great Giana Sisters

message: There is a Giana sisters game on the iPod app store  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.173.2.230 (talk) 02:57, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: iPod app

message: I think it would be great not to restrict ourselves to the similarities between Mario/Giana but also to show how Giana's gameplay is unique (e.g. disappearing platforms, absence of 1up mushrooms, homing shots).
Imho, you need to reach at least level 3 of GGS to experience the _real_ giana sisters, with more dangerous foes and pits than ever in Super Mario.
:Giana Sisters does have 1ups, they come in the form of lollipops. But I agree with you, there should be a mention of the ideas Giana Sisters added. Disappearing platforms and homing shots are some of them. Another thing is the boulders that fall down from some bricks if you head-butt them while wearing a mohawk hairdo. Are the pink bouncing ball enemies also a new idea? I don't remember seeing such enemies in Super Mario Brothers. I seem to remember Giana Sisters had power-ups that froze or killed all enemies on the screen, but I just played through the entire game on VICE and didn't notice any such effects. JIP | Talk 18:44, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that such material was already added, but later removed. I could perhaps add it back, but in a shorter, more restricted form. JIP | Talk 18:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sisters vs. Brothers 

message: Does anybody know the current legal status of the game? It has been rereleased for mobile phones a while ago. 
* http://www.gianasisters.de/gamer
-- Grumbel 15:44, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Legal Status 

message: As shown in the above screenshot , there was at least a beta/review copy for the ZX Spectrum, which was pulled before it could be officially released. Did any copies of that unreleased version ever get "leaked" ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.2.16.5 (talk) 22:22, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Sinclair ZX Spectrum version

message: A Winamp plugin made for Winamp 2+ called Nullsoft DSP Demo that changes the tempo of the music allows you to hear the music from the underground (#3) as played in the SMB ad hoc if set to +12. LReyome254 05:05, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: SID Soundtrack and Winamp Plugin

message: I just downloaded Giana's Return from the website linked in this article, and found, not to much surprise, that the executable works straight out of the box even though it was compiled on Ubuntu Linux and I use Fedora Linux. I could make a screenshot of that game too, but should one be included in this article? I mean, Giana Sisters and Giana's Return are different games, although closely related. JIP | Talk 20:15, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Giana's Return screenshot 

message: Why are Giana Sisters DS and Project Giana being considered unofficial sequels? The official Giana Sisters DS available from retailers, in particular, is not a port (although it does confusingly share its name with an unofficial port of the C64 original), is an official sequel (it includes the original, but as a hidden bonus), and should have its own entry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.24.162.214 (talk) 04:46, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Unofficial" Sequels 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: there seems to be a new (7 new tracks?) version of the Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams, but not sure if it's a sequel or a superset
https://www.gamersgate.com/DD-GSTWRO-H/giana-sisters-twisted-dreams-rise-of-the-owlverlord  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2149:870F:A900:1E9:3DF5:CD1A:B398 (talk) 01:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:   Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Rise Of The Owlverlord 

message: The only citation for the first paragraph of the "Alleged lawsuit" section is a German-language source. I was able to track down the original German text and then translated it into English using Google Translate. Though the translation is imperfect, it's clear that the source says nothing whatsoever about any Nintendo lawsuit, real or myth. It's merely a description and academic critique of the game's mechanics "in a vacuum", without even mentioning that it was originally based on Super Mario Bros. As further proof, a search on Google Books shows that the word "Nintendo" only appears three times in the entire book, and only in footnotes and image credits.
The second paragraph wrongly cites this source again. But it also cites a second German source that I've not been able to track it down. It's possible that this source contains information about Nintendo's action in response to the game (the title sounds promising). But we should treat it as suspect until someone is able to track down that source and confirm exactly what it says.
135.180.119.77 (talk) 06:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Validity of German-language sources 

message: There was a very well-known user-made reskin of GGS at the time that essentially turned it into Super Mario Bros. I still have it on floppy. The article has omitted this arguably significant detail. It may not be canon, but at least in parts of the USA, it was more popular than the original GGS. 2603:7081:1342:9B00:8186:65BA:1A0:1B1E (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 22:19, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Find a source and add the information then. Cortador (talk) 07:18, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of Mario Mod 

message: Hi, I grew up in Greece in the '80s and TGGS was huge on Amiga pc back then. There was also a rumour at the time that the creator of the game was ripped off when they went to present it to a gaming company and their disk was fully copied while presenting it. The rumour was that that had happened to the existing TGGS version at the time though but it got me thinking. TGGS is so much more sophisticated and complex than the plumber bros dummied down version that it's hard to believe that it didn't predate Mario Bros. If you lived anywhere in Europe at the time and even remotely knew anyone with access to an Amiga pc (i.e. my rich neighbours) you knew TGGS. I strongly feel that someone just copied TGGS, changed the players' gender and reintroduced it as a new game to the US continent that had no knowledge of it, although I have no proof of this. Who else feels like Nintendo has gotten away with murder screwing the little guy/gal game designer? How can we prove this? Goes to show you don't even have to be a living breathing woman to be plagirised in this world. Even our digital representations get screwed over. Cheers. #crushthepatriarchy
VegetarianCat (talk) 02:11, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: While yes, TGGS did in fact debut before the official public European release of Super Mario Bros. as cited by both the Super Mario Wiki (and presumably Wikipedia as well) and this page, Super Mario Bros. actually debuted in other countries before, with the original Japanese release of SMB coming out for the Famicom in September of 1985 and the US version debuting for the NES in October of the same year. For reference, that's almost two years before the cited release of TGGS, so that makes it technically impossible for Super Mario Bros. to be a copy of The Great Giana Sisters. Sorry, I just wanted to point this out for clarification purposes. 24.19.193.26 (talk) 06:41, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Per the current prose in the article and per the "Making of" article from Retro Gamer from the later 2000s, the developers of the game specifically were told to make a game like Super Mario Bros.. So despite the sisters popularity in Europe, Nintendo did not borrow from their game. Andrzejbanas (talk) 19:48, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mario Bros is a blatant TGGS rip-off