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Great Giana Sisters

fiermanfierman
in Games

Apparently The Great Giana Sisters never saw release for the ZX Spectrum, due to legal pressure from Nintendo. Yet, apparently some time ago a working copy did seem to surface:

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There is always the possibility this is a fake of course, BUT I did find an interesting letter in SU november 1988 - where a certain Gavin Sharpin writes about the game - kind of proving that at least a few copies did find their way into the shops, just as happened with the C64 and Amiga versions:

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Any hopes of finding a complete copy somewhere - so it can be dumped and preserved?

Comments

  • IvanzxIvanzx
    I asked exactly the same few months ago and got no answer :/ and I know that the supposed owner of those pictures is a user of WoS here in the forums...
    <a href="http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/</a>;
  • fiermanfierman
    edited October 2017
    Ah, didn't see pictures in your post, didn't know the same pics were used in that auction. Do take note of the SU letter though.
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  • RalfRalf
    Yes, I remember this old thread too. The same screenshots, the same question and silence was the only answer.

    And I wouldn't get too excited about letters in old mags. They were quite often made by the people who made the mag themselves ;)
  • slenkarslenkar
    Ralf wrote: »
    Yes, I remember this old thread too. The same screenshots, the same question and silence was the only answer.

    And I wouldn't get too excited about letters in old mags. They were quite often made by the people who made the mag themselves ;)

    lol, I wonder what kind of letters they recieved really.
    I would imagine a lot of childish stuff from 8-11 year olds which never seemed to get printed.

  • DunnyDunny
    So far, only the images in the magazine previews exist. I'm pretty sure we already did this one, and the images in the first post of it running on a real spectrum were proved to be fake.
  • VampyreVampyre
    Dunny wrote: »
    So far, only the images in the magazine previews exist. I'm pretty sure we already did this one, and the images in the first post of it running on a real spectrum were proved to be fake.

    I think this is the thread you're thinking of. It was going along nicely until the weasel got involved.
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
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