About
Banania is a 1992 Windows 3.x game created by programmer Rüdiger Appel and comic artist Markuß Golschinski, published by Data Becker, a German company that closed in 2014; its original Pascal source code is believed lost. BananiaJS is a from-scratch JavaScript recreation of Banania, aiming to be pixel-perfect by reverse-engineering the sprites, sounds, level data, and game logic directly from the originally released Windows binary (since the source code is lost). It runs in a browser via HTML5 canvas, with no installation needed.
How it differs from the original
Because the original Pascal source code no longer exists, all sprites, sounds, levels, and game logic were reverse-engineered from the released Windows binary rather than ported from source.
Getting started
It can be played online directly in a browser via a hosted version linked from the repo, or run locally by downloading the repository and opening its HTML file in any browser that supports JavaScript and HTML5 canvas — no installation required.