Pizza Tycoon really takes the meaning of the word "micromanagement" to a new level. In this game, you must take care of everything. You start out with a pathetic amount of money. First, you have to rent a restaurant. Then you have to buy and place furniture. You have to hire personell. You have to decide which pizzas you put on the menu, and you have to do some market research first. Are there more kids or old folks in your neighboourhood? Which pizza ingredient is popular with this demographic?

Demographics are all important. There are six: kids, young people, blue collar (These three often have common tastes), white collar, business people, and senior citizens. The last three, again, often share tastes, theirs being more conservative. Anything from floor covering to pizza ingredients to the pictures you hang on your wall will have different appeal on these six demographics.

Once you have decided on a menu, you have to buy ingredients. Again these are available in different quality, and you have to figure out how much of each you need yourself. The game does not really help you here. Once you hire a manager, he or she can do it for you.

You can amend your meager earnings by running errands for the mafia, for naturally, where there is pizza, there has to be mafia.

In the bottom line, this is a great simulation game of micromanagement of a pizza place, though it gets quite tough to begin earning and understanding the market. Great simulation of real life, isn't it?