Case study

Pizza Legacy: reimplementing Pizza Tycoon

Pizza Legacy rebuilds the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon, also released as Pizza Connection, in a C++20 engine that loads the original game's assets. The author reports that the major gameplay systems support a complete playthrough. The remake also adds optional bug fixes, autosaving, and support for modern displays and controls.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Asset files from the original English-language DOS release are required.
Limits: The author reports that major gameplay systems are complete; playtesting, balancing, and bug fixing continue.
License: GNU General Public License v3.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{pizza-legacy-case,
  title = {{Pizza Legacy: reimplementing Pizza Tycoon}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://codeberg.org/cowomaly/pizzalegacy}},
  url = {https://codeberg.org/cowomaly/pizzalegacy},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/pizza-legacy-case/}}
}

Plain text

Pizza Legacy: reimplementing Pizza Tycoon. https://codeberg.org/cowomaly/pizzalegacy (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/pizza-legacy-case/

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https://codeberg.org/cowomaly/pizzalegacy/src/commit/95da97dbf75ae5b070470850ca08dba1d3aa34fa/README.md