Giana Sisters is better than Super Mario Bros. The soundtrack is better too.
I’m probably one of the few who thinks so—but there’s a reason for this.
I was one of the few kids who owned a C64 instead of an NES. For a good portion of my life, Giana Sisters were my Mario Bros.
Did they copy Super Mario Bros.?
Yes, but the copy seemed better than the original.
Giana Sisters games are still made today. And they’re still fun.
My daughter and her friends play it.
Glad to pass this on to the next generation!
You might wonder why I had a C64 instead of an NES.
Part of the reason is that my parents wanted me to get something “educational” instead of something that would “rot my brain”. They imagined I’d spend my days writing novels and composing songs.
Instead, I played games. And when I got bored with the games I had, I’d go to the library to figure out how to code my own games.
When I got a C64, I thought, “Wow! This could do word processing and has great graphics for games!”
Because you got to remember that the first IBM PCs only had CGA graphics and they looked really awful for gaming.
And if you didn’t have an IBM, you were forced to use the blocky Apple ][ or the rough black and white Macs.
PC gaming mostly wasn’t as good as console gaming back in the day.
C64s were the best computer gaming machines.
@atomicpoet great little thread 👍 my exposure to Commodore machines came about when we moved to the UK from Venezuela. Back there I gamed on an NES, 2600, and an IBM PC clone. Nowadays the TheC64 introduced me to C64 gaming and coding in a big way.
