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cowomaly

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    Comment #48368260

    Author here: As part of my reimplementation of Pizza Tycoon for my open source Pizza Legacy engine, I had to figure out how to win the game, and in the process I found a bug and/or…

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    Comment #47706665

    Yeah the DOS version was called Pizza Tycoon everywhere. The Amiga version was in German and was called Pizza Connection. Only for the digital re-release in 2017 did they go with P…

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    Comment #47704706

    There are some rules where in their collision detection they basically don't check; for example cars going east will never intersect with cars going south so just drive through the…

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    Comment #47704640

    I'm writing the engine from scratch (not re-creating the original engine) so it definitely won't have the original bug. Of course I'll have my own bugs but at least its open source…

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    Comment #47704341

    That's true! In the original if you don't have at least 3 of the pizza recipes from the "cook book" that shipped with the game your restaurant popularity stat gets divided by 8, wh…

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    Comment #47704274

    I tried the sequels and they never clicked for me either. Probably also due to the missing nostalgia factor :) As to why I did this; when I had some time between university and sta…