Banned and Reborn

The Great Giana Sisters, a Super Mario Bros clone, is getting a new lease of life long after being banned. Not by the fashion police though it's wonder why they didn't step in first.

This year will see an updated version of the game released on the .... wait for it……. W a i t for it! ….. on the Nintendo DS. Nintendo may be going soft in their old age seeing how it was they that had the Giana Sisters removed from the shelves for copyright infringement back in 1988. It’s true that the sisters copied the brothers. Blatantly and gloriously but they didn’t better the NES Mario Bros masterpiece. Nevertheless the sisters were very well received back in their day. Zzap64 reviewed the game and bestowed it with a Gold Medal award and a healthy 96%.

The Great Giana Sisters is well worth checking out if you have a penchant for platformers and have a C64 or a **cough** emulator **cough** handy. With the DS already laden with great platform games it’ll be interesting to see how the sisters do when they're released in June.

Maybe Nintendo really are going soft. Or maybe they want a to see the sisters fail miserably against New Super Mario Bros.

So, in a fight….. would the sisters kick the brothers into a pile of dismembered pixels or would the brothers flatten the sisters? Looking at that mohawk I’d have to say my money is on the girls!

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