# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://codeberg.org/cowomaly/pizzalegacy>
- Primary source: <https://codeberg.org/cowomaly/pizzalegacy/src/commit/95da97dbf75ae5b070470850ca08dba1d3aa34fa/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pizza-legacy-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pizza-legacy-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pizza-legacy-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

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

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