The Great Giana Sisters

This is a brand new, unofficial conversion of The Great Giana Sisters for the ZX Spectrum by kirby2000, released free on itch.io in November 2026.

The original game was made by Time Warp and published by Rainbow Arts, and it was designed by Armin Gessert and Manfred Trenz, with music by Chris Huelsbeck. You play Giana, or her sister Maria in two-player mode, exploring a magical world inside Giana’s dream and searching for a giant diamond to wake up.

Most enemies are beaten by jumping on them, and the sisters grow spiky hair when they collect a power-up. After the game’s UK release it was pulled from shops following a notice from Nintendo.

A Spectrum version was reviewed in magazines in 1988 but never released, and no known copies survive. This conversion fills that gap. It has all 33 original stages, secret bonus rooms, hidden warps, eight power-ups, a high score table and a two-player mode.

It supports Kempston, Sinclair and Cursor joysticks, with custom key mapping.

The itch.io page lists several versions: 48K tape, 48K single load, 128K and +3 disk. Indie Retro News credits AI in the making of the conversion. [Add the version and file you are playing.]

Download it here: https://kirby2000.itch.io/great-giana-sisters-zx

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