Amiga Longplay: The Great Giana Sisters
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- After falling into a dark, deep sleep, Giana finds herself in a mysterious dreamworld where she must possess the magical diamond in order to wake up.
I completed the game, collecting (what I believe is) the maximum number of diamonds possible (without killing Giana, that is). That includes completing stage 32 twice, before entering the lair with the magical diamond.
At the beginning of stage 23 I miss a diamond due to a game bug (the stone needed to reach the diamond won't drop to the ground).
After the game itself, I've added sequences of where to locate the 8 stage warps (stages 3, 6, 8, 17, 19, 22, 25 and 28).
(Source recorded at 50 fps.)
![Flashback Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wNTnRM77XuE/mqdefault.jpg)
![The Great Giana Sisters Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]](/img/n.gif)
I can’t help but love this soundtrack. It has an eerie twilightzonish nostalgic draw to it. Like I’m dreaming on acid
Yeah, but nothing beats the c64 version! (SID sound)
It’s not just satisfying listening back to it now for nostalgia feels. It had those same good feels at the time. Many Amiga games had superb soundtracks. Super Cars was a classic soundtrack… but there were many. Worms. Another World, Lemmings, Speedball 2, Sensible World of Soccer, Shadow of the Beast, Turrican, North & South, and on and on.
@@savedfaves That’s the thing though. I never heard of this game or played when I was a kid. I just discovered this as a 42 year old. But it still strikes me with a sense of nostalgia some how. It’s just so…. Idk….. the feeling this sound invokes is just weird. Almost disturbingly, but in a good way.
@@HW-Origin Like in Commando, Last ninja 1, 2, and 3. :)
@@RamManNo1 Then maybe u remember some of these ua-cam.com/play/PL4890C30D3D417475.html
I'm still playing this classic game on my Commodore 64 and Amiga 500. And that blonde girl on a screen - MIAOW 😻!! Thanx for a legendary longplay video. 😺👍🕹️🎵🎶🎸
God, your skill is insane. I barely reach 20 level and I've been playing this game for months!
Thank you, this is my childhood dream of a game!
Ouch my heart! The nostalgia is too much
The first good platform game on the Amiga.
C64 soundtrack smokes this
My fave game on the amiga as a kid, memories
Must say I was a bit surprised you could walk through the fires. Allways recall that as killing you and having to land on the edges of those platforms.
You recall correctly. But if you collect a “water droplet” bonus item you’re fireproof until you lose a life.
@@mcskodowska And with the clock and bomb you were able to stop time / blow up all visible enemies by pushing "Space" on the keyboard.
Gianasisters is the best games in that time.I like it and play it now.Love Giana Sisters 🥰🤘👍😁
Well played, a joy to watch.
Wow the stage music just never changes. Glad I got to see this and flicking through it as playing through the whole game with that music track would drive me batty.
We grew up on this. Years and years of Great Giana Sisters. (and forty thousand other pirated games)
@@Ulvetann Xcopy+ was used a lot by me xD
Giana Sisters DS fixes that issue
Thanks for all warp, probably this is the best video about Great Gianna Sister. Good job.
I've always rage-quit this game at the first bouncing red ball encounter. Even though I am a professional drummer, I have to admit that I may have bad timing. :(
Loved this game
Soundtrack alone made it worth, but the game also was fun
Some might cynically think that what is essentially a Super Mario ripoff won't be worth of such an epic soundtrack, but leave it to Chris Huelsbeck to prove 'em biblically wrong!!!
Giana Sisters rules! I prefer the C64 version, I grew up with it and always thought it's at least as good as Super Mario Bros 1. Btw, I made the music for Giana Sisters DS and Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams.
Awesome job on the music for DS! I thought it fit the classic soundtrack well and added a lot to the game. I still need to play Twisted Dreams.
Between the Amiga and C64 soundtracks, I also prefer the C64.
@@kcowolf Thanks for your comment about Giana Sisters DS! I hope you'll have much fun with the Twisted Dreams game as well! Yeah, I clearly prefer the C64 version over the Amiga version.
41:00 Armin and Thomas in the rankings, “Are you a Scout Regiment!”
I said unintentionally.
Nice game!
Was für ein verdammt geiles Game!
I remember this game well... Could get to level 12 without loosing a single life and always died to that darn dragon except once... And never figured out how I did that. Think on that one occasion got to level 14 ...and my sister never believed me.
:-) Hah, pretty much the same experience, here.
C64 version of this music is a LOT better but graphics seem to be better on this
One of the few games I actually finished.
are you deaf?
This is so weird. I only played this on the C64
Every Giana Sisters music track in order of appearance.
0:07 Main Theme.
3:08 Title Theme.
4:17 Game Over.
4:51 Overworld.
8:04 Dungeon Boss.
40:53 Ending Highscore.
Born 1980.
Back then, I loved the GianaSisters.
Today I share my apartment with them. (I named my pet-rats Giana and Maria)
Always liked the two ingame tunes.
I think the Amiga conversion lacks a lot of the Commodore 64 version. It's a real shame. The first level tune just doesn't groove any more in this version.
@@joe_razor Amiga conversions weren't the best. I guess they got lazy.
I respect that you were so polite about someone criticizing the music. I personally love the music in both versions, that said I think the reason that the music for the Amiga port might have come off lacking is because that version of the game was made after the Commodore 64 version, and the composer for the C64 Chris Huelsbeck (a very great composer) didn't return for the Amiga version. So, the job of transferring over his music was left with a different person. They did ok, I have definitely seen worse conversions of Huelbeck's music (looks to the versions of Turrican 2 where his music was ported over without his involvement.)
All in all I still love the underground music in this version it's so epic.
The opening screen music seems to open the world.
Perfect Game
An diesem Spiel, das hier in der besten Variante zu sehen ist mit der dafür best ausgelegtesten Hardware, sieht man wie verdammt poliert Mario Bros wirklich war. Die Ingamephysic ist Giana Sisters um lichtjahre vorraus. Hat im Kindesalter aber keine Rolle gespielt.
Great little game, it was so hard when i was a kid!! It does not look so hard now i see it again...
But it is.
It is hard. It requires skill. That said, after 30+ years of playing this game I can play it through blindfolded now. So I have set a challenge for myself to go through the game with one life. And after all those years of trying, I was on Stage 33 last year and can you imagine that I forgot how to do that stage? I was killed by that f...n lizard. I was devastated. So I'm still trying for that challenge of mine.
Mind you I play on C64 emulator now. Back in the day I was playing on C64. But either way it's way harder than this Amiga version. To name a few differences: you can not jump into the fire barrel without dying, you can not fire through walls and floor tiles, time on the stages seems to be more tight there than here and Giana's hair is bigger as well, which makes jumping out of tight spaces much more difficult. So it is a tough game, but I always liked the challenge of it.
It's kinda creepy how the enemies' corpses don't disappear
Ah ya see that's what Giana Sisters had over Mario Brothers. Realism. ;)
If you don't want to wait and hear the intro theme music skip to 4:51 for the gameplay.
From the authors of Turrican 2. OMG!!!
The music was so much better in C64 version.
C64 version features more animations too. Crystals were animated, water was animated as well as the elevator.
Agree... the C64 sound was much better! Is this due to sound emulation or was it the same on the real machine?
Yeh but her tits werent
Ah memories!
So how is this game actually called: "The Great Giana Sisters" (title-screen) or "The Great Gianna Sisters" (scroller)? What a typo, yeez!! 🤣😂😁
The scroller was correct. The printer messed up the box (no kidding) so they raced to fix the code to match the box. But the scroller wasn't so easy to fix, so they didn't.
Even because the two little girls were Italian , and here in Italy there is no Giana , but Gianna
@svin svin I don't remember how I know this. It was common knowledge once. But don't make assumptions. The error was on the box for the C64 version. After that they changed the official name to match the erroneous box. I'm not making this up.
@svin svin yes it is. It came after the C64 one, so they had changed the name by then.
Well i can see why nintendo shut this game down but i can also see that this game was different enough to have withstood nintendo's lawyers
4:17 Is that the unused game over music track? Because it sounds a bit off. And if it's in this port then that means it's not unused.
I remember playing this on our amiga 1000 and 2000, if you died on a fire barrel stage and lost your powers you were kind of screwed. You can stand on the edge of a fire barrel but it's too hard.
Also I remember on some underground levels you could break through the top of the stage and just walk across to the end. You missed all the crystals but you didn't have to do the challenges.
Oh yes. I remember losing countless lives at 15:54, having no drop of water to protect Giana. :-)
This part is not that hard. If you jump straight against the barrel, Giana will stand right at the edge with no damage.
I've still to work out why the hell the title screen shows the main character with no shoes on when she's clearly wearing them. Also, trousers.
And the title screen says The Great Giana Sisters, but the title that scrolls across the screen when the game has loaded is: The Great Gianna Sisters. Which spelling is correct? Giana or Gianna ?
You may be the one and only looking on her feet instead of her wonderful n .... blonde hair 😉😍
Mh. That shirt is very much see-through ;).
I’m guessing it’s prolly really cold up in those mountains that Giana is adventuring through on the title screen, iff’n ya know what I’m sayin’.......
@@radrich4873 both, actually. It was supposed to be Gianna but the printer screwed up. True story.
Love this game!!! Oh Im number 666 on the like button😂…. Im buying the pixel stick so I can play this again!! I can’t wait!!
German music this is super duper muper kuper cool 😎. Okay 👍 I'm love The Great Giana Sisters ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Super:)
My childhood
I just got hit by fucking nostalgia
This sounds so sterile compared to the Raw powerd of C64 SID. Great respect to both machines tho!
I like both scores a lot
But the cover picture is not completely G-rated. One of the best Amiga games.
What? Pointy wet-like red t-shirt? Naaah. That was common in the 80's.
Respekt !!! 👍
Should probably have tuned the instruments a little…
...music is painful :) ...im shocked :) my favorite game on c64 :)
No kidding!
Agreed!
I can only make it to level 7. LOL
The Red Sector crack version has a messed up Level (21/31?),
nearly everything is invisible or broken so you have to memorize...
All the time i thought this not so good design idea was intended in the original version...
Sorry, only back for the 4x 8 bit channels....
35:43 Drummer get wicked!
well fucking played man!
Yes! This is the right one! Mario Bruhs... Whos that for? Amateurs? Damn right it is.
Hehe newer have i seen this game played so, you must be part machine. :)
Wow.... dare I say this is better than Super Mario Bros.? Yes. Yes I do. The music is better, the graphics are better. Gee whiz this game is freaking cool.
Just because the graphics are better doesn’t mean it’s better
Looks like entertaining
Like female version of Super Mario bros x3
Is Giana Sisters DS a remake or a sequel to The Great Giana Sisters ?
A reboot
Somehow i got a cheat to this game I dont know how i done it but I couldn't die , I remember there being absolutely loads of levels.
Great game. But prefer the c64 version. The music is much better on c64. Sure the graphic is "better" on Amiga. But c64 version is my favorite.
Image ratio fail this game was 4:3
Looks like Mario
What are those enemies at 35:15?
I'll guess , spike tops from Mario?
The C64 SID version of the soundtrack is far superior to this.
I did this same but I did it walk on the barrow flames
The makers of this game actually got sued by Nintendo, as it closely resembled Super Mario
Actually, it never got to a lawsuit, they got a letter from Nintendo and withdrew the game from the market.
@@0x777 Because nintendo was a tad bigger company, but I am pretty sure They made Mario because this became a success on Commodore computers. :P
In retrospect, it just seems greedy. I suspect sales of this would've helped Nintendo, rather than hurt. But of course, Nintendo was purely rotten when they became successful. Stupid Atari, could've prevented that. Ironically it's Commodore's fault. They fired Jack and the Atari-Nintendo deal got lost in the shuffle.
Genau. Das ist sowas von perfekt. Ohne worte???????????????????
It's just disturbing that the music is worse on the Amiga. Heck they could've just sampled the C64 version if they wanted.
How the hell did you miss the real exit in Lv 32 twice?
How did you not understand, I didn't miss it but did it on purpose?
@@adalsgaard But why twice?
@@Atombender Why not twice? Plenty of time to do it.
So... Mario?
This game is technically illegal :P
No, it is most defiantly illegal.
Made In Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪✌️✌️✌️😉😉😉
Does player 2 get a different sprite or it is the same sprite for both players??
Player 2 (Maria) has a green ribbon in her hair (as opposed to Giana's purple ribbon).
Gina ist echt Sexy auf den Titelbild
Blatant rip off or Mario Bros but who cares. I loved this on the Amiga in the 90s.
Its supossed to be Mario un pc, bit Nintendo rejected
Actually Nintendo ripped this one off... ...Why Nintendo got big, btw...
@@Ulvetann lol. Oh man i really hope this you're joking 😂
The graphics of this game are not great, given Amiga possibilities.
How is it possible to get shittier graphics and music with Amiga than Commodore64.
Man Nintendo needs to chill...haha
It’s an obvious ripoff of Super Mario Bros, but it’s a good one.
Amiga version looks like a rip-off. It serves better quality graphics (because of stronger hardware) and better quality sound (again, hardware), but worse everything else. More bits doesn’t always mean better impression.
I think the c64 version sounds better, but this is better in all other aspects. The C64 seemed glitchy at times. This doesn't appear like that.
The sound effects are better, but the music is god-awful on the amiga version.
Ashley Williams to me, Amiga version looks and feels like an amateurish clone. The dynamics are somehow different. A lot of amateurish platforming games feel like that.
@@rafadydkiemmacha7543 I'm not sure if the phenomon has a name, but I think it's due to the common phenomenon where an increase in graphical horsepower makes something look worse. If you just naïvely scale up what works at low resolution, low colour space, small memory, low animation framerates etc you get something unbalanced and the glaring difference in quality really highlights the things you expect to see, but can't.
The character sprites/models may look good, but the low quality animations now look jarringly awful. FMV from the mid 90's is notorious for this; they often used much higher poly models and offline rendering to make it, but the textures were terrible, and the animations were terrible and there was not any more real detail in character models as they just had more polygons added to smooth them out; looked worse than in-engine cut-scenes almost all the time. In 3D games like Half-life, going higher than about 800x600 makes glaringly obvious that walls are atomically flat, despite the depth and shadows painted into them, etc. and it makes things look worse.
soylentgreenb it makes sense. I would add the frames per second issue. Sometimes, retro games just feel better at lower FPS. That can be due to the fact that the movement is pretty linear. If that linear path gets smooth, it looks just artificial and wrong. But for Giana, also some colors are weird on Amiga (red shooting balls and diamonds?) and the movement of some objects seems to be different too (look how the shooting balls behave).
Game was nice, but I couldn’t stand the music anc Giana’s awful look 😅😅😅
mario's copy game
Lol
Mario Bros. just less pretty and worse art direction. Still liked this game.
The graphics look great but the music sounds like shit compared to the Commodore 64 version.....
MARIO BROS 1 RIP OFF
The music in this version sucks ass... C64 FTW!
It doesn't matter if this is a good game, has good music or good graphics. The whole idea behind this project was to copy another already released piece of art. The purpose..... to cash in on the Mario craze, to creatively copy a copyrighted work. Despicable. And all you people bought it. We all know about money grubbing companies and their end game. What's your excuse??
The Giana sisters are nothing, were nothing, and will always be nothing more than one game companies' illegal attempt to be like the big N. Knowing its sorted history, why would anyone support it......on principal alone even?
What's your excuse? I don't care...it's a cool game? Ok, so I don't care these shoes were made in a sweat shop, they are cool?! Exploitation is as exploitation does. Shame shame, know your name Giana fans.👎
Coming from the original C64 version, this seems subpar in just about every way except graphics, and even that's arguable.
What a terrible port :S Especially the soundtrack, my lord it's a savagely butchered version of the original masterpiece.
I can only hope the game play is good enough to warrant a play, because looking at this it seems like there is zero reason to play this over the original.