[DS] NEW Great Giana Sisters! (Nintendo approved, too!)

Hey, do you remember when some german dudes made this game called The Great Giana Sisters, who then got sued because "it looked like Super Mario? Of course you do! And now the sisters are back!

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Hamburg, December 09th, 2008 – It was a little bit more than 20 years ago when a game was born that still is a synonym for a whole gaming genre: The Great Giana Sisters made Jump’n’Run gaming available for home computer users all over the world. In 2009, the blondes finally return – and with that, they make it all the way to Nintendo DS for the first time.

Back in the late 1980’s, there was literally no chance to play Jump’n’Run games on home computers like Commodore 64, Amiga or Atari ST. Until 1987, when a small German development team released The Great Giana Sisters.

Their father, Armin Gessert, let them become stars of the genre over night. The Great Giana Sisters was a Jump’n’Run that had everything home computer gamers back then only could experience on video game consoles: A fantastic game world on many different levels, that challenged the players’ hand eye coordination skills to their maximum to jump over deep canyons, collect bonuses and succeed when fighting enemies just by jumping on their back.

Now, The Great Giana Sisters are finally back! Publisher dtp entertainment and developer Spellbound Entertainment in co-operation with Bitfield are going to release their new adventure on Nintendo DS in June 2009.

In more than 80 levels, players experience all the great features of the original home computer version, as well as new features, that are kept exclusive for Nintendo DS. Players will have the Nintendo DS microphone as well as the touchpad, for instance.

The Great Giana Sisters’ graphics on Nintendo DS both is a redesign as well as reminiscent of the classic game.

The music score of the game is a remix by Fabian del Priore of the original soundtrack, written by famous computer game composer Chris Hülsbeck.

dtp entertainment is going to release The Great Giana Sisters DS for Nintendo DS in June 2009.

YouTube Video

Sauced by NeoGAF, but I checked it on Gamespress.com, and it's genuine...

Is this:
A) Awesome?
b) Awesome?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Did she....just grab something like a fire flower....?

Looks good...definitely reminding me of the old NES days...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Heh, this looks kind of amusing. The Mario's influence is obvious, and I can even see a smudge of something taken from Sonic too (Holding down to look below, Giant Gem hidden in the stage).

80 Levels huh? I wonder how long the average level might be then?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

C) Awesome awesome

How completely out of nowhere! Looks wonderful! It needs to be June 2009 now, not in 2009! The fact that they mention the DS' microphone in the PR is a bit of a worry though, I hope you don't have to blow around the bubbles, I don't know how much saliva the DS can take! Spellbound's site has a few more screens.





Hmm. Since Europe has the C64 on the Virtual Console, I wonder if they'll try and get the original game on it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Wow, classy!

I remember playing that game at the age of <6.
The graphics and music were better at that time - even those mean cat things looked more fierce and evil...wait, they're owls?

Ah well, it's great to see they're giving that game a second chance.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Looks like any of a million uninspired platformers to me. When's someone going to get hold of the Bitmap Bros back-catalogue and start releasing some decent old school games like Magic Pockets?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

Hmm. Since Europe has the C64 on the Virtual Console, I wonder if they'll try and get the original game on it.

That would indeed be option C)!

FELIPE NO

The video reminds me of Mr. Nutz for some reason. I was just listening to an OCRemix from this game and wanted to play it again. Can't wait for it to come out.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Oh my god the music harks back to the C64 synth sound BEST EVER.

Hope they don't shoehorn scribbling and blowing into this, though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Is this a remake or a new game in the series? I never would have imagined another GGS game would be made, especially for DS, since the original was more-or-less a knock off of Mario.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So some of the music is avaliable to Internet from the Internet now. Title theme's pretty much the best thing that'll ever explode forth from the DS' crappy little speakers.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.