When I was 6 years old, I spent the night at my friend's house and I remember playing a bootleg Mario game. It was fun enough, and I never got the name, but I remember the music. I even made up lyrics set to the 'Pizza Hut, Making it Great' commercial. For 30+ years I've kept the jingle in my head, but never thought I'd find the game again, until today I randomly got here via the algorithm. Thank you!

@wadz668

7 ай бұрын

by curiosity, was there an intro by Abyss in this bootleg Mario game? I played the same one ALL the time as a kid too! The intro said it was Giana Sisters changed to look like mario

Love this soundtrack! Brings back so many memories.

@SummonerArthur

5 жыл бұрын

Sure, mainly the intro theme.

@claudioandressalinas8770

5 жыл бұрын

For me too! Played this a lot on the C64 and Amiga 500! _)

@modac1

4 жыл бұрын

brings back memorieries! my dad built a room in the basement, filled with nintendo and commodore 64- theme.

@EngieDerek

4 жыл бұрын

Between this soundtrack and Maniac Mansion.......... My childhood, I miss little me!

@janX9

4 жыл бұрын

I'm only discovering this at 42 with my C64 mini and awesome KZread creators like *you,* and the nerd etc... Thanks for Rocking!

The game's tagline "The brothers are history" probably didn't make Nintendo any more amused either :P

@toadtv4389

4 жыл бұрын

But brothers ARE the history of games! If not this box art, the great giana sisters can be alive longer

@neobogard

3 жыл бұрын

@@alphatrion100 What?

@neobogard

3 жыл бұрын

@@alphatrion100 Oh!. Didn't get that. Thanks for the reply.

This game reminds me of one that I played on NES as a kid... I can't put my finger on what it was called, though.

@Muchacho1994

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah... I think his name was Marcus?

@Muchacho1994

9 жыл бұрын

***** OOOOHHH YEEEESS. I recall the game only loading after being orally stimulated.

@rekcere

9 жыл бұрын

Sensi Bleb Mark? Marro? Martin? Shit, I can't remember.

@rekcere

9 жыл бұрын

cookie huffman Yeah I'm gonna go with that. Dupa Makko 1, 2, 3, World, 64, Sunshine, Galaxy 1, 2, etc...

@waluigiwario5857

8 жыл бұрын

+Sensi Bleb Mr. Mary? 7 Grand Dad? maybe Somari?

I wish to have a way to calculate how many hours I played this game on my beloved C64. One of the greatest game ever, even it's a clone. The music is something else too.

@pattrell5257

Жыл бұрын

@@xokksDOTcom Agreed. I was 6 at US NES launch. And, I realize the C64 went from 82-92 with slight updates within that time, but, once you have a viable gaming console, you stick with it until the next big thing(and usually bigger thing than what you have). I didn't even know it existed nor was I looking for another game console...

Giana Sisters music sound is so awesome.

@UltimatePerfection

3 жыл бұрын

Not surprising since SID (C64 sound chip) is more powerful than what NES could do.

@skiing43degreesnorth

3 жыл бұрын

@@UltimatePerfection plus, SID attracted good musicians.

@FelixS.

Жыл бұрын

It’s soundtrack is from the legendary Chris Hülsbeck, an icon of video game music. Plus he is German, which is always a good thing.

@admiralAlfonso9001

Жыл бұрын

@@skiing43degreesnorth yeah Sid is pretty attractive

@S0meb0dy728

Ай бұрын

@@FelixS.​Not if you're a Jew. This comment is cringe af btw... why are you randomly glorifying germans?

Memories...I miss you brother, so much.

The Sounds and the Music are just awesome.

@Musicradio77Network

3 жыл бұрын

Even the whoosh sound that you hear at the beginning of every stage was stolen from Worldvision Home Video.

It's a meeeee...Giannnnna!

@gameboyadvance45

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@sirbenzington5636

4 жыл бұрын

DADA MIA!

@brucki1980

4 жыл бұрын

Mama mia

@Alianger

4 жыл бұрын

The all new sequel to SMB starring a female only cast.

@fede77

4 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha!

Extremely good player. This game is a part of my childhood. Nice to see it again

That epic ending sure was worth the effort.

@invisibletenants

8 жыл бұрын

The ending was kind of a letdown but miles better and more creative than "You're Winner".

@SwiftNimblefoot

5 жыл бұрын

Was it "Sorry Giana, but the prince is in another castle?"

@sammyyo461

4 жыл бұрын

@@invisibletenants It's a shame the uploader left out the "Highscore/Credits" theme as its really quite a bittersweet tune!! Also, in case yer wondering, the whole game was just the protagonist having a dream.

@bonavinter

2 жыл бұрын

imagine the hours of coding that ending must have taken

I played this at school, on a black and white monitor, never seein it in color! But even in Hungary, behind the iron curtain, I knew this was a Mario ripoff. :) Hell until recently I even remembered it as Super Maria Sisters. :)

A game that got me through my childhood... Thank you Gianna :)

I played this game for first time in 1989. now, after 28 years old , I still play it sometimes. When I wish to remind how was to be a child, I play it.

dude you absolutelly OWN this game

@capzisediam5845

3 жыл бұрын

for true

@herohamza1196

3 жыл бұрын

no

@robertcarlsson1781

Ай бұрын

Not sure, could have created a copy on his double decker casette player

I have the Mario sprite version. I grew up thinking it actually was a real Mario game.

@PlasticCogLiquid

4 жыл бұрын

That's the only version I play :D I had that one too when I was a kid

This is it! Game pushed the C64 to the limits with well-deserved success. I spent countless hours on this back in the late 80ies.

@felsner1

4 жыл бұрын

@The Animation Popsicle ! Sure. For bad losers.

@felsner1

4 жыл бұрын

@The Animation Popsicle ! More like developers who couldn't tolerate other and more talented developers.

@felsner1

4 жыл бұрын

@The Animation Popsicle ! Sure thing. And get well soon, asshole.

Uuuuuhhh, end of stage 11 has been played extremely brillant. Respect.

The game was released a short time but was taken from the shops. Nintendo wasn`t really amused about Giana Sisters and contacted Rainbow Arts. The company behind this game. Even the coders don`t know what happened behind the scenes but there was never a lawsuit. It seems that Rainbow Arts gets nervous after Nintendo contact them and moved the game itself from the market.

@hansnystrompastor8690

2 жыл бұрын

Shame on nintendo

@cigoLxeL

2 жыл бұрын

@@hansnystrompastor8690 _Shame?_ These people had the balls to rip off the biggest IP of a very large and legally-savvy media company like Nintendo and then openly taunted them about it. Fuck 'em; they deserved what they got.

@hansnystrompastor8690

2 жыл бұрын

@@cigoLxeL Yea, nobody but nintendont can make a platformer, i get it

@tsm688

Жыл бұрын

@@hansnystrompastor8690 The opening level is a straight-up copy.

@hansnystrompastor8690

Жыл бұрын

@@tsm688 so what, mario 2 isnt even a mario game, they replaced the sprites of the main characters and called it a day, but someone use a lvl as an esatern egg and they call the lawers, they have no shame

Soundtrack is so much better than on the amiga version. C64 was the boom box of it's time.

This could have been a legit game had they just changed the way lots of the terrain looked and removed some of the familiar mechanics. The music is original though.

@roxasthebandicoot4492

4 жыл бұрын

Diana sisters have thier own game for the Nintendo switch and not a copy of super smash it's completely different.

I remember playing the version of this where the sprites were changed to look more like Super Mario Bros. Yes, even in the US we managed to get our hands on this game. Of course, that was only among the 100's gathered from copy parties on the weekends. LOL

Wow - I finally got to see this game again after more than 30 years❗️😃

I used to play this for ages on my C64.... and then my friends came and introduced me to a game where two plumbers were fighting turtles..... my thought was: WTF!!! 😂

@rachaelgreen1812

2 жыл бұрын

Super Mario bros

Kids: Can we have Mario!? Mom: We have Mario at home. Mario at home:

@dexterwoolf1604

4 жыл бұрын

BRUH

@_.._.._

4 жыл бұрын

Its better than Mario

@PA-jw6fo

4 жыл бұрын

My childhood in a nutshell. And Yes, we had c64 with the dodgy cassette player AND this game. Such Memories - So Wow.

@insertclevername4123

4 жыл бұрын

@@PA-jw6fo My childhood gaming consisted almost entirely of boxes and boxes of pirated, semi-labeled C64 disks that my dad bought from a guy at work (maybe by the pound) and still I don't recall having any games this lousy.

@PA-jw6fo

4 жыл бұрын

@@insertclevername4123 Hahaha! Lucky You ^^

C64 had one of the best music cpu 8bit PC

@theyamo7219

5 жыл бұрын

Cego I agree, although there were some great tunes on the Atari Pokey chip too. Still cannot compare to the SID chip though. Now of course the greatness of the tune also depended on WHO was doing the music. There were some shit tunes on the SID chip too, like the title music to Demons of Topaz, and the GENERIC music from the AMERICAN version of Bionic Commando

@vitigarw

4 жыл бұрын

Sid 6581 top

Nostalgie pur! Dnke das Du Dir die Mühe gemacht hast!

Super Gameplay, geiles Game . Das waren noch Zeiten !!! Danke für das Video

Kind of interesting how this Mario-esque game got a 2012 remake (Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams).

@sarysa

4 жыл бұрын

Even weirder than that, a DS remaster with like what...80-100 new levels? It was also possible to unlock the original level set, though without some of the most egregious elements. (like the goombas)

@roxasthebandicoot4492

4 жыл бұрын

Now a special edition of the twisted dreams is for the Nintendo switch.

What an absolute quality version, the music and whole feel of this is wicked ! The sid chip was the business.

30 years back... Damn. So long ago. Remember I played this at a friend's house. So stoked.

This game brings back memories! The music and soundeffects are still awesome!

My first game experience, apart from Commander Keen. God, I was so in love with that old Commodore.

this brings back such amazing memories! and the music for it is still as sick as i remember! classic!

Big up to you & my maximum respect!!! I never made it to the end, back in the days. Now, decades later, i decided to play Giana Sisters till the end. And i finally made it to Stage 33 (thanks Android and C64.EMU/Save state...). Now my soul has found peace.

18:38 I never forget this jump. I died there a hundret times.

I love how it's the exact soundtrack in the new game.

"The brothers are history!"

Can’t believe I still remember the levels in 2021… And the music! Golden!

I used to play this all the time when I was a kid

One my faves on my C64, also one of the best looking and sounding games on the machine!

"The Great Giana Sisters is a platform game developed by Time Warp Productions for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MSX2, and Commodore 64. It was released in 1987 and published by Rainbow Arts." says Wikipedia. Oh, and music by Chris Hülsbeck. He is also making the retro music for Giana Sisters:Twisted Dreams which is in Steam Greenlight. Metal version of the same soundtrack is by Machinae Supremacy.

@HellasBoy1980

4 жыл бұрын

atari st not good games screen :p

man that music brings back memories. amazing upload thanks!

omg! that was the ending!!! so much of my childhood was spent trying to beat that game. if i knew that was how it finished i would have played outside like my mom nagged me to!

I remember playing this as a kid. In the final boss room, if you just hoofed it and ran, you'd run underneath the dragon safely without having to fight, at all. XD

aje, wat hab ich des früher gezockt auf meinem c64, meine güte is des lange her ^^

six years laters, Im still watching your videos man :)

This was my favorite Game on C64 and now I was able to see the end of the Game. Thanks for that

I remember this game running a lot faster. I must have played a later version because it had the "secret entrance" squiggle lines above pits you could drop into.

@hyphz

7 жыл бұрын

That was probably the Amiga version.

@kabuto3907

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe you played this on a NTSC machine, many old games run 20% faster there compared to PAL machines (which this was played on)

Damn this brings back memories, when I played this I was like 7 years old in 1990.

amazing, back to the roots! i watched the hole Video, that was one of the best games i´ve played as i was a kid...sorry for my bad english :) edit: thanks for play and record :)

Now that was half an hour very well spent! :) Thanks!

Hmm... this game seems so familiar... ;-)

@sutanpuu

7 жыл бұрын

yes, and I just realized that they even implemented giana in SMB games...as the princess toadsttool, that mario always says. So thet game franchise ows A LOT to this game

@thesatellite54

6 жыл бұрын

Um... not sure if you were being sarcastic, but Peach/Toadstool was in the original Super Mario Bros. at the very end... So no. Mario owes nothing to Giana Sisters.

@jackfisher9833

6 жыл бұрын

Seem familiar, but Giana Sisters is more fun i think. It is easier and boss music is just great. In mario you can go down the pipes and when you fall in to a hole you die. Giana sisters you fall in to a hole you find a new world full of gems. Whoever made Mario never made it for C64 and other platforms then nintendo so this was a legal rip off, and there is also Amiga version and Atari. Anyways back then no one cared about Mario people were playing Giana Sisters and i thik it was a valuable lesson for leaving out computer based platforms.

@daywalker109

6 жыл бұрын

Tom und jerr

@marakarthegreat

4 жыл бұрын

yeah it looks like that game where you wear space armor and fight off aliens and eventually an anorexic space dragon

Wow! Erstklassiges Gameplay!!! Das habe ich früher auch gezockt auf meinem C-64. Waren tolle Zeiten!!!

@MrVirgion

9 жыл бұрын

Henning Malland Das stimmt wohl! Der alte C-64 war einfach klasse!

@Martin-gn6pm

9 жыл бұрын

Henning Malland 30 JAHRE IST DAS JETZE HER.Commodore 64 war die Weltrevolution in der DDR.Glück auf....

@Martin-gn6pm

9 жыл бұрын

Martin Der erste Teil 1Ich weiss noch wie ich fast vom Balkon gefallen wäre.Es muss noch vor der Wende gewesen sein...Ich war bestimmt 5 Jahre allt.Ulle hatte den Farbefernseher von RFT vorbei gebracht.Am nästen Tag hatten wir Max auf unserem Balkon sitzen.Er hatte immer Geburtstag wenn sieben Tage rum waren ;(

One of the best game sound and music ever made

@assafshmueli

9 жыл бұрын

Amaizing what you can do with 32kb

@pasromano75

Жыл бұрын

64k ....

What always bugged me is that it was impossible to get to the top of the hiscore chart, only the 3rd place if I remember well. On the 1st place was "Marcus" with 990000 points (hell, I even remember the name), the 2nd had about 270000 (or so) which is impossible to reach. Here you can see all levels are done and it is even less than 75k points. Is there a way to get these many points?

It was possible to jump over the pit (entry to level 33) in stage 32 and afterwards some enemies appeared but then only dead end and it was impossible to backtrack so I got killed by timer. Music is still a killer, specially in boss levels. You complete every 4th stage too quickly to listen them :) Btw. Nice job avoiding fires even when you had the rain drop. It is also a great way to avoid cheater-comments :)

this game = my childhood :D love it!

I had this game when I was little this was an awesome game and now I see this video it still is an awesome game!!

So many late nights at my cousins on the C64 playing this early early 90s. Makes me miss my sister as the kids we were. If only we really knew how special those days were while we were living in them.

Okay, we want to make an awesome Mario type game, but what do we replace Bowser with? Umm.... a prawn? GIVE THAT MAN A RAISE!

@MisterAlexEsquire

8 жыл бұрын

I think you mean "Koopa." ;)

memories, the music is great!

Great game - very well made. Excellent tunes. Possibly my fave ever. But that ending was sooooo unsatisfying when you got to it.

That message in the end is so mystical and cryptic.

@Devoguy It seems that Nintendo never sues Rainbow Arts (the company behind Giana Sisters) But Nintendo wasn`t very happy with Giana Sisters and let Rainbow Arts know that. No one really knows what happened behind the scenes but Giana Sisters retract all copies from the stores. But the game was very popular `cause black copys.

Avgn should review this game

@Silentevil7

10 жыл бұрын

ummm he could but this game isn't fuck awful. sure it ripped off mario but it's a pretty neat game.

@RolandTemplar

7 жыл бұрын

and the twisted dreams is awsome

@RolandTemplar

7 жыл бұрын

***** the game for the 25 anniversary of Gianna Sister, even was fundend via kickstarter, is awsome, cute gianna and punk gianna work together

@ZombieGamer80

5 жыл бұрын

*UNKNOWN C64 GAME RECENTLY RESURFACED* SEARCH "DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME C64" ON KZread TO SEE IT. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Oh the memories, I loved this game as a kid!

Those were the days where we lingered and had fun with 8bit games such as this one. It's a shame that we cannot turn back time....

It was one of my favourite games. Hundred of hours with Commodore C64.

Ah, Giana Sisters, Commodore''s improved and extended "Mario Bros".

@fran5678can

5 жыл бұрын

Super should be added.Mario Bros. Makes it look like your Talking of the c64 port made by ocean and a unrealesed Atari-Soft version close to the Day the industry crashed.

@ProxDee222

5 жыл бұрын

@@cruzjunior05 Opinion respected, this honestly looks more playable than SMB.

Major improvement: No toad telling you about princesses in another castle. Giana Sisters forevuhr!

This was my childhood,8,1 :D

Imagine Gianna being a playable character in SSBU

This game is my childhood in a nutshell

@ancogaming

6 жыл бұрын

Add a Competition Pro joystick and a friend giving you shit for every mistake: Yes, these were the days!

@martinkuliza

6 жыл бұрын

This game is fucking awesome

@yourfriendlymemedeliverygu7493

5 жыл бұрын

@@martinkuliza a awesome ripoff then?

@martinkuliza

5 жыл бұрын

@@yourfriendlymemedeliverygu7493 What do you mean.. Rip Off i was just saying it's an awesome game what the hell are you talking about i don't even remember paying for the game, not that the price matters i don't get where you're coming from with this comment or why

@yourfriendlymemedeliverygu7493

5 жыл бұрын

@@martinkuliza i meant that because this game is a ripoff

game of my life...thank you for this

Hi, I'm the composer of Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams, Rise of the Owlverlord, Dream Runners & Giana Sisters DS. Musical Greetings!

Can you play as Luigiana or whatever the other one's name is too?

@zazelby

7 жыл бұрын

Her name is Maria, and... yes, you can.

@MCTV1000Faqs

7 жыл бұрын

Holy shit i thought you were trolling, but her name is actually Maria, what an obvious Super Mario Bros. rip-off lmao.

@TAVI1S

6 жыл бұрын

One sec... Mario=María Luiggi=Luiggianna OMG

@hgwiechie

5 жыл бұрын

@@TAVI1S Hehe. Now it all makes sense...

@monstermanmeme3720

5 жыл бұрын

🙄really🙄 (that was a joke right?)

ngl this game is underrated af

@mcakgun

2 жыл бұрын

why tho? its a cheap super mario bros ripoff

@0DRONZER

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcakgun the level design and music are cooler than mario from back then in my opinion

@mcakgun

2 жыл бұрын

@@0DRONZER yeah but its a ripoff after all

You play it soo amazingly.

Fighting giant crawfish with snowballs. Power-ups that create eighties hair. I LOVE IT.

Also known as "Totally Not Mario".

Ghostbusters 2016: Mario edition

Yeah. Coole Sache dieses Longplay. Daumen hoch :)

17:00 love how she didnt fight the dragon ^^ just ignored and strolled elegant into finish ^^ good gaming, thanks for upload!

I actually prefer this to Mario. The music was much better, the powerups were cooler, and the atmosphere in general was much better. The only advantage that Mario had was the time was a bit more forgiving

@zatozatoichi7920

7 жыл бұрын

This is cool and all, but nowhere near SMB's fluidness (or sound). GFX is a tad bit weaker as well, objectively speaking.

@scottbreon9448

7 жыл бұрын

Zato Zatoichi While I admit the graphics were slightly better on the NES (at least on most games The SID chip was far superior to the sound technology in the first generation NES

@zatozatoichi7920

7 жыл бұрын

Scott Breon Might be true, but we are talking about specific games and in this case, SMB has better sound overall. And way more fluid gameplay. ( Mind you, I started out with a NES and I still have a complete C=64/II set. : > )

I actually think this is pretty cool, kinda reminds me of a hybrid between Super Mario Bros. and Mystery Quest on the NES (if any of the other four people who played that game are reading this). Sucks that it had blatantly rip off so many details from Mario, it could have been great if they took a bit more time to come up with more original concepts.

@jonahabenhaim1223

4 жыл бұрын

Zerio They did with twisted dreams

@DanafoxyVixen

4 жыл бұрын

They had to rip it off, Nintendo refused to release SMB on home computers. the market was there. blame Nintendo's stubbornness more than anything

omg the amount of hours spent playing this!!! the memories.

Still have this game

Epic spelling mistake at 0:34 Gianna instead of Giana ;-)

@federicomorganti2783

7 жыл бұрын

It should be Gianna instead of Giana. Gianna is the abrrievation of the Italian name Giovanna.

@martinkuliza

6 жыл бұрын

hehe Smart arse 10 PRINT "FUCK OFF"* 20 GOTO 10 RUN HEHE

100x Better than Mario. Different bosses etc. Total more playable xd

@1300l

10 жыл бұрын

And better music

@decapattack

10 жыл бұрын

Super Mario 3 wins by far. Sorry. One thing is, the new Giana Sisters game is really good, better than all recent Mario game.

@1300l

10 жыл бұрын

Hermann Cavalcante This was to compeat with the original Mario, not Mario 3. Mario 3 is irrelevant to this Giana game.

@Contrarian-C

7 жыл бұрын

Fuck you

@kylekite9806

6 жыл бұрын

1300l It's not competition if it literally stole the concept, level design, art direction, and miscellaneous assets. If anything it's an attempt to follow up the original game with similar but improved game, which is what mario 3 is.

Wow... Had I grown up with this instead of Mario I might have learned how to interact in social situations!

my childhood, damn I'm getting old >__>

alter schwede wie kannst du dieses spiel einfach so easy durchspielen.. ist ja unfassbar :D

@lysosommike

4 жыл бұрын

Na das ist kein Act...mit einem Leben und die rechte Hand auf den Rücken gebunden!

Super mario bros:who are you? Giana sisters:we are you but girls

Thats awesome, thanks for sharing!!!!!!

Oh i remembered my childhood nice memories 🌹🙏❤️

9:35 missed the invisible one

you must of stayed up all night when you were younger.

@nichderjeniche

4 жыл бұрын

Well we used the level skip key combination to speed up the game play :)

Yes, there is a light blue line. It's obvious on the real machine and/or when using an emulator. It's just KZread's video quality and its blur that makes these lines almost invisible.

WOW and you are awsome player !!!