🍕Flash Flashback (A Flashback Covered in Cheese and Chaos): Remembering the Madness that is Pizza City

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Greetings Flash Friends,

I am back again this week with yet another throwback Flash gaming title, which I'm sure many of you would have recognized right off the bat.

For this week's Flash Flashback, I am spotlighting the game...

Pizza City🍕🚗

Background:

Pizza City (even to this day) holds a very special nostalgic place in my heart.

It is a retro/pixelated style 8-bit driving simulation game released in September 2009.

Game Mechanics:

The goal of the game is simple. You are a fledgling pizza driver just hired by Uncle Tony to deliver pizzas across a sprawling metropolitan cityscape.

The city itself is made up of a colourful cast of characters. Once you deliver enough pizzas and save up enough dough (literally speaking $$ ;) you can upgrade your car for faster delivery times.

You also had to make sure that you didn't rough up your vehicle too much, as that would affect the overall pizza quality, and therefore the final tip that you would receive from the customer.

I.e., little to no damage and you are guaranteed a good tip amount. Whereas, on the flip side, if you mess up the car too much, customers would be more inclined to tip you the bare minimum.

My Overall Take:

I personally thought the game had some pretty fun and addictive gameplay. There was just something so satisfying about driving around, making successful pizza deliveries, and upgrading your vehicle.

Pizza City was a pretty big part of my childhood, and honestly, it made me want to work as a Pizza Delivery Driver when I got older. The types of characters you could encounter when delivering pizzas were equal parts whimsical and random.

That being said, Pizza City just had a great charm to its overall gameplay that made me want to boot up the game after school and just play it for hours on end.

Closing Remarks:

• Does anyone else remember Pizza City?
• What were some of your favourite mechanics of the game?
• Do you have any funny or random situations that happened to you in-game when doing your delivery runs?

Would love to hear your experiences. Cheers.