Name the Game - Part 3

[Adagio]

Ok... well, I've never had a NES or SNES or any gaming console, so what do I know

Maybe it was released on the C64 in 1991? Weird it had the exact same graphics though

... and yeah, those sisters were cool...

[DrSpike]

Damn I missed this thread until now............I bet Cap is way in front of me by now.

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by ADG
Maybe it was released on the C64 in 1991? Weird it had the exact same graphics though

Let's put it this way- it's not a coincidence Nintendo sued the makers of Giana Sisters for plagiarism.

[DrSpike]

I don't remember that...........did they win?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Let's put it this way- it's not a coincidence Nintendo sued the makers of Giana Sisters for plagiarism.

Doesn't make sense, if MB game with the exact same graphics as GS was released later than GS... Or did they use the same graphics on the consoles earlier?

[Buck Birdseed]

Look, ADG, it's quite simple- Super Mario Brothers came out in 1985 on the NES and had (for the time) unique gameplay, a couple of cute cartoon siblings and a distinctive graphical theme.

Two years later Rainbow Arts' released Giana Sisters which had extremely similar gameplay (more than just "platform is platform"), featured a pair of cute cartoon siblings and even borrowed much of the graphical feel. They were not "exactly" the same as you say but pretty much.

Giana Sisters was also the better game in many ways but that didn't matter- Nintendo threatened to sue and it was withdrawn from shops after a couple of weeks.

[Buck Birdseed]

Compare:

Super Mario Brothers, 1985, NES

[Buck Birdseed]

Great Giana Sisters, 1987, Commodore 64

[Kropotkin]

OK, a new game for you maniacs to figure out: A strategy game from the first half of the 1990s, came on PC (DOS) as well as the amiga. Incidently, it was the first game I bought together with my Amiga 1200.

[DrSpike]

A little vague..........X-Com - UFO: Enemy unknown?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Compare:

Super Mario Brothers, 1985, NES

And here's the Super Mario Brothers from 1991:



Looks pretty much like Giana Sisters

[Buck Birdseed]

That IS giana sisters that someone has superimposed a mario sprite onto. There are no "real" Mario games for non-nintendo platforms.

[Adagio]

Ok, that makes more sense

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
OK, a new game for you maniacs to figure out: A strategy game from the first half of the 1990s, came on PC (DOS) as well as the amiga. Incidently, it was the first game I bought together with my Amiga 1200.

Civilization?

[Asmodean]

Master of Orion?