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Fast Food Tycoon

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Fast Food Tycoon
Fast Food Tycoon cover
Developers
Software 2000
Publishers
Europe Software 2000
North America Activision Value Publishing
Release dates
Windows March 17, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Business, Strategy
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Comedy, Contemporary
Series Pizza Tycoon
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Fast Food Tycoon is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building, business and strategy game in the Pizza Tycoon series.

The game was initially released as Pizza Syndicate in Europe. Activision Value Publishing would release the game in the United States as Fast Food Tycoon in 2000, and would replace the existing waitress sprite with a mild recolor of the one used for the female temp. This version would make its way back to Europe shortly thereafter.

In late 1999, the Mehr Biss (translated roughly as More Bite) was released only in the German-speaking market, and included 10 new cities, new objectives, and the ability to save/load pizza recipes.

This is the only game in the series to which Assemble Entertainment does not claim copyright.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Illegal Table of Contents DRM
Custom DRM code may sabotage the game by disallowing more than one in-game year of play, and/or deleting all saved games after 8 hours spent in the same scenario.
Windows
A free demo version is available from ModDB.

Monetization

Type Notes
Expansion pack The expansion pack includes new missions and playable towns, as well as the ability to save and load recipes.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Mission CD: Mehr Biss Available in German only
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch for the game (v1.02) can be downloaded from the CultGames.

Skip intros

Move, delete or rename the intro-videos
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Movie\Intro.
  2. Move, delete or rename all files within it.

DirectDraw 7 replacement on modern Windows 10

The game can also be rendered with the help of dgVoodoo 2. This can apply stretching and other rendering tricks and might be able to fix the Critical Error Screen:: Surface_Blit : can't Blt (Errorcode -2147024882) bug. To verfiy this, more testing is needed.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Software2000\Pizza Syndicate\Config[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 2]

Video

General settings menu (hovering over tooltips explains the options)
General settings menu (hovering over tooltips explains the options)

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Hardcoded to 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, country-specific music, ads, clicking, speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Different US and European versions. Waitress in US version is a reskin of a temp.
German
Italian
Localization by Dinamic Multimedia
Polish
Localization by CD Projekt Details
Spanish
Localization by Dinamic Multimedia
Swedish
Localization by iQ Media Nordic

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, NT 4.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References