Pizza Connection 2

After playing for almost 40 hours on and off, I finally beat the game that I came to know in around 2003. This is a really great Pizza store management and simulation with a little mob flavor add into it. Rather than just trying to only outsell and making the best Pizza chain, you may crush the competition using dirty tactic as bribery, hiring punk, or heck blow the store and headquarter. It have variety places to keep it fresh, but overall it is a quite dull game once you found the perfect formula to make a successful store. And that where the mob mechanic come into play to make it more dynamic. Bear in mindt he game can feel slow because there is no fast forward feature. Overall this is a pretty fun game that revolve around pizza store management, which not many I found. Give it a shot if you like old school Tycoon game, you might fall in love with this one. Side note: Played this in fairly modern PC on Windows 10 64-bit without issue. My only itch, there is no window option at all which will force your resolution to 360p. There is a workaround using DXGL which run fine, but it will crash when bombing a store or headquarter so turn that off

Disclaimer: I played the heck out of this as a child. Nostalgia blindness incoming. About: You build your Pizza empire, make sure to get places in good spots (Near schools, subways, etc.) deal with the Health inspectors, and send less-than-legal visits to your competitors while fending off theirs. The strategy elements are put together pretty randomly, (designing pizzas, invading other pizza places with cockroaches, managing staff, while taking care of ad campaings, bribing the mayor), but make for a very enjoyable mix. However, beware that none of these elements present too much depth, this is a game for fun relaxation. Aditionally, some of the aspects, like creating recipes, can be automated once your headquarter reached a certain stage, if you don't feel like channeling your inner chef. There are difficulty settings, but once you get your head around the aspects like "where you SHOULD put your stores, how many people to hire, when to upgrade your headquarters", the rest can become rather easy. The main challenge is to be more efficient in your empire-building than your opponents. I can't comment too much on the campaign challenges, as I did mostly free plays as kid, and haven't racked up a huge amount of time now. As I remember, they give you very specific tasks to accomplish in limited time, which works better as challenge. There are a lot of low scores based on the controls. However, I have to say, that the snail pace if your empire is running itself, the problematic placement of interior furniture, and the input lag of the mouse and keyboard, were all there in the original game. This is of course a detractor nonetheless, but since this is GOG, I wouldn't go to really low scores. Just be aware that the game is plagued by being from 2001. If that doesn't bother you, there is a lot of fun to be had, not the least due to the mob cliches being thrown around.

As others mentioned, I also suffered from delayed mouse clicks and keyboard inputs. Simply downloading DDrawCompat (a DLL file) and placing it into the install folder solved all of the issues. Game ran fine afterwards. It's an odd, quirky game and I really enjoyed my time with it (though I didn't do well loll). There is a mini-tutorial that kick starts you but you're mostly left to figure it out on your own. It can be slow at times, though I feel like it only really slows down when you make an absolute disaster of your business. I got this on sale for $0.89 AUD, and I can't really complain at all. I love these older, weird games and this fits the bill perfectly.

So happy to see this on GOG Its a Fantastic Game that i have played over and over for years Title is Incorrect it was Never called Pizza Tycoon Original Name was Pizza Connection USA Version was Fast Food Tycoon 2 I own several discs of this game And will be purchasing this digital GOG version soon Reading about the issues here And my advice is try this When i play this with my original discs I play on an xp sp3 win 7 and win 8.1 And my advice may not work at all for the GOG version But here it is Before i even fire it up i go to Properties in XP Then Setting/Advanced and find "Troubleshoot" Hardware acceleration and i move it to the third bar from left you dont want it on FULL i click apply and exit For win 7 and 8 Right click desktop Click "Personalization" Choose Display from the left panel of the window Click "Change Display Settings" You want the "Troubleshoot" Then Hardware Acceleration This makes the game play for me just like it played on my xp in 2001 I dont know if this will help with the GOG version Sorry to see ppl are not able to enjoy the game

I can recommend this nice old strategy game. It reminds me old times of Win 95. Who has a problems with performance you can try to use dgVoodoo2. It works on newest systems very good! I can recommend!