Old New Stock #4: The Great Gianna Sisters

Before we start there's a disclaimer here:
In this series we share 90s scene software with the people still being around. All this to get (re-)acquainted with the rich software library filled by pure hobbyists. Some software was freeware on the day of its release, but this was not the case in most of the software in this Old New Stock series.
For all Old New Stock software a member of the responsible group was contacted and the answer was almost always: "Sure, of course, but you'll have to remove the copy protection yourself". Finding one credited person wasn't always the easiest, let alone all persons.
In order to keep things as clean as possible we can always decide to take an entry out of the download database if one of the makers disagrees.

Now let's get to the content of the fourth edition of Old New Stock. We go way back in time to the year 1993 when a young game developer from Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) coded this game under the flag of MSX Gebruikersgroep Friesland (MGF). Coder, musician and graphics creator Jan van Valburg made a port of Germany based Rainbow Arts The Great Giana Sisters and let Sunrise produce it.

Just like in the original the name of miss Gianna is sometimes spelled with one n and later with two. It's a 2D action platform game which feels a lot like Nintendo's Mario Bros. In this case you're a girl whose sister Gianna is in perpetual sleep suffering nightmares. It's your task to battle yourself through 32 stages of which some are rather easy while others will require several retries to finally make it. All this time enemies try to hinder you in your quest while a timer is counting backwards. Of course you can find some power-ups along the way to make life a tiny bit easier.

The Great Gianna Sisters will give the player hours of pleasure, tension and frustration. Time for the present MSX scene to (re)play this golden oldie from the Dutch 90s scene. A big thank you goes out to Jan van Valburg to agree with spreading his first commercial MSX game.

For those who can't finish the game themselves, FiXato recorded a Tool-Assisted LongPlay of The Great Gianna Sisters using openMSX which can be watched on YouTube.

Relevant link: The Great Gianna Sisters

Update: The previous download was a 360k image in a 720k image which can cause problems. Thanks to Louthrax a good version is available now.