Pizza Palace

Pizza Palace

Kind

Flash arcade game

Main files

pizzaPalace_hack.swf, pizzaPalace_og.swf

Pizza Palace is a Flash game from the Arcade of Webkinz in which the player runs a pizza shop for a character called Berry. Its files hold more readable text than those of any other preserved Arcade game.

How it is played

The player clicks on a customer to take the order, goes to the dough maker and picks the right size of pizza, then picks up the dough and takes it to "the Topper", adding one topping at a time. The uncooked pizza goes into the oven, and when it is cooked it is handed to the customer. Bigger pizzas with more toppings are worth more, faster service earns more tips, and a wrong pizza can be thrown in the recycling bin.

Berry carries out several instructions in the order they were given; the spacebar cancels them, and the Q key restarts a level at the cost of a try. One of the game's tips adds that each oven holds up to four slices.

Upgrades

At the end of a level the kitchen can be improved. The game's text describes the things on offer in a joking voice: a machine that "will help you make more pizzas" and an improved "Pizz-o Maker", an extra topper, a second oven, a "super oven which uses alien technology", and two pairs of shoes for Berry, the second "Powered by a tiny engine".

Berry's story

The game file holds twenty short remarks in Berry's voice which follow the shop's growth; the readable text does not say when each was shown. They begin with "Just one customer today" and pass through a flyer made with a friend's help, a good review and a television commercial, to the day she can call herself "the President of Pizza Palace Incorporated"; the last few report good news from her other stores.

Reward

The game paid one KinzCash for every 175 points. The files do not say who made the game or when.