/vr/ - Retro Games

Exhibit 2: The Great Giana Sisters
1987

Contrary to popular belief Nintendo did not open a lawsuit against the German publishers of this title for copyright infringement. Nintendo itself later admitted to have influenced the stop of sales personally, as it did already before with other games.
Several factors influenced the stop of the sales of the game, including conspicuous similarities: the general gameplay and the first level of The Great Giana Sisters is nearly identical in layout to the first stage found in Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. The immediate similarity to Super Mario Bros. ensured that The Great Giana Sisters was quickly noticed by both the public and the video game industry itself. Nintendo admonished the makers of The Great Giana Sisters to withdraw the game from sale, arguing with obvious performances of copyright infringement. Hülsbeck and Gessert immediately stopped the production and, at the same time, the game began vanishing from the stores. The difficulty in obtaining copies of the game has led to them being sought out as collector's items.

At that time we still only had c64s at school...

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Great Giana Sisters?