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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 24/02/2026

Something's brewing at PTW! @superkirbylover.me yesterday has spent a lot of time making a custom textbox design for the Ancient Aliens stream transcript, resembling DOOM 2 UI! No images here, all CSS! While it's still a work-in-progress, you can see it at pizzatower.wiki/Ancient_Alie...

El Diego: Cuantos mapas quedan raza?
The Noise: w
Maurice: This is America
Maurice: Speak American
The Noise: Dude

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 09/10/2025

This has been planned for a while, but we have finally got around to add the "Citation Needed" template! This will be used for any piece of trivia, that does not have a source, and is primarily spread through word of mouth.

* McPig has stated that Peppino isn't actually wearing an apron, but rather a white tank top over a black t-shirt. This is because Peppino cannot afford an actual apron. [citation needed]

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 30/09/2025

In Western Build, a Pizza Shield power up was added into the game. It could be found in some secret rooms, and it would prevent the player from losing points after getting hit once. These would stay in the game for a while, before getting cut entirely with the rework of the Secret Rooms. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 17/09/2025

Fangamer's "Pizza Tower for Nintendo Switch™ Collector's Edition" comes with a set of 10 art cards, that have every level's titlecard printed on both sides. However, one for Fun Farm is missing, which was replaced with the P-Rank screen. Mort was also edited out of CTOP's titlecard. #PTWtrivia

Comparison between the Crumbling Tower of Pizza's titlecard, featured on the Fangamer's website, and the one used in the game. Mort's head was edited out.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 28/07/2025

In April 2021 Build, for exactly one frame, one of Gerome's keys was the wrong color. This was fixed in the final release. #PTWtrivia

Comparison between the old and the new Gerome sprites, the only difference is one of the keys being grey, when it's meant to be dark yellow.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 24/07/2025

These animations were done before Pizzaface's idle animation was redrawn, which is likely why the shade of yellow is different. Interestingly enough, despite both animations being introduced in Eggplant build, the Flush cards uses the correct shade of yellow.

A comparison between the shade of yellow used in Pizza Time Pizzaface sprite and the Flush card sprite.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 24/07/2025

Initially, Pizzaface used a slightly different, more bright shade of yellow, along with extra shading used. This got carried over onto the Pizza Time Pizzaface animations, where the same shade of yellow is used. Everywhere else, Pizzaface uses a different, more common shade of yellow. #PTWtrivia

A comparison between the shade of yellow in the initial Pizzaface sprite and Pizza Time Pizzaface sprite, and the current Pizzaface sprite.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 21/07/2025

Introduced in LetsGoToSAGE v3, Ancient Cheese and Bloodsauce Dungeon featured falling debris, which would activate during Pizza Time and act as additional obstacles. They were removed in SAGE 2019 Demo v13b. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 15/07/2025

Exclusively in Noise's Hardoween, the left trigger on the controller makes The Noise dab. The dab is analog, meaning that the player can control how the animation is played. It is a reference to Yo! Noid II: Enter the Void, where Noid also had an analog dab animation. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 13/07/2025

Besides a glitch right at the start of the level, where not all objects that give points are removed, there is no way to increase score, only lose it. Once the player has finished a stage, a second sign, colored red, appears next to the entrance to the level, showing the rank they received.

Peppino, standing next to the entrance to Entrance, an earlier variant of John Gutter, with two signs, one showing the rank received on the normal playthrough, and one, colored red, showing a rank received on the Time Attack mode.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 13/07/2025

Very briefly, Pizza Tower featured a Time Attack mode, which could be activated after collecting a clock at the start of the level. It would set the player's score at around 12,000 points and requires to finish the level while the score slowly decreases. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 27/06/2025

The Raid can sprite, used in the footage, was removed from the final release, however the whole fight is still functional.

Sprite for the Raid can, used in the footage above.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 27/06/2025

One of the original ideas for the 4th boss in the game was a single bee. The whole idea behind the fight was to get the Bee to touch the toxic gas from a Raid can 8 times. The fight is still accessible via debug console and the "player_room boss_bee A" command #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 28/04/2025

Hi there! We (JustDenys1) have been contacting various people to help out fill in the meaning of each level name translation. We've managed to fill in each one, except for Japanese. If any of you know it fluently and can help out with this, please contact @justdenys1.bsky.social via DMs. #pizzatower

A list of name translations for John Gutter, from the John Gutter page on Pizza Tower Wiki.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 28/04/2025

Fake Peppino's animations were slightly changed during the release version of the game. The arm shade was replaced with a simpler one under the shirt, there's less shine spots on the face, and the tongue was made a different color, which was originally cheesy yellow. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 30/03/2025

One of short-lived ideas for the game was a day/night cycle, where the background would change its colors. It is unknown if the way it was implemented in the video was meant to be the intended final result. It's still accessible in the files of the Desert build. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 24/03/2025

Weenie enemy, as confirmed by McPig on Tumblr, was based on Peter from Weenie Cop, one of the previous game concepts that was worked on. #PTWtrivia

Comparison image between Peter from Weenie Cop and the Weenie enemy from Pizza Tower

Post from McPig on Tumblr:
"Beating off some weenies. Notice they are basically the same design has that hotdog guy from the first game of this account."

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 17/03/2025

Around 2021, McPig gave a funeral to the Pizzice enemy on one of his streams, as it wasn't going to be used. Later, however, McPig reused the behaviour for the Pizzice enemy for the new Snowman one, eventually reusing the sprites for Pizzice, giving it its current behaviour. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 14/03/2025

Pizza Tower was initially meant to have a Kickstarter campaign, rather than a Patreon page. This never went through, however. #PTWtrivia

McPig's messages in #the-announcements channel in Pizza Tower Discord:
November 12th, 2018
"@everyone we are going to release a kickstarter on december 5th
(image attached is the edit of Peter Griffin, resembling Peppino)
oh yea and new demo on that day too"
December 4th, 2018:
"@everyone I am going to delay the kickstarter for later this month or the beginning of next month. I just wont be able to set it up until then because of problems on my end.

To make up for that we are going to release an update tommorow for the demo that includes
-remaster of first level
-second factory level
-2 small challenge level representing each level"
(image attached is a sketch of Peppino with a weird face, holding a gun)

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 10/03/2025

Pepper Pizza transformation initially had an entirely different effect. It would have been a power up, that would make the player run at mach 4 instantly for about 15 seconds. It was never actually used for a single level and was only showcased in the first Thing of the Week youtube video #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 07/03/2025

There are actually quite a few notable differences between the original "YOU SUCK!" image, compared to the one used in the game. Firstly, rather than using the original one and then adding two more boil frames, it was redrawn entirely, with cleaner outlines. (1/3) #PTWtrivia

The comparison image between the original "YOU SUCK!" image compared to the final one. Mainly Peppino's sprite was redrawn entirely, alongside the "YOU SUCK!" text getting extra boil frames.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 03/03/2025

The Steam page for the game showcases a fight with Pepperman, which actually depicts some pre-release footage. The bosses would always have 8 HP shown, with extra ones placed on top of them, which use a different color. This was likely scrapped as it would have spoiled the Phase 2. #PTWtrivia

The Steam page screenshot for Pizza Tower, depicting a bossfight against Pepperman, with his health points shown as 8 hats, rather than 10, with red and blue ones placed on top of the green ones.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 28/02/2025

Showcase of said faster scrolling background:

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 28/02/2025

PIZZA TOWER TRIVIA At one point in development, the backgrounds for the TV were meant to reuse the level gate ones, before they were changed to solid color. In some other clips, the scrolling was much faster, making it more distracting. This was likely removed as to reduce clutter. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 24/02/2025

PIZZA TOWER TRIVIA At one point in development, McPig has considered making Act 2 for each level, akin to Sonic games, where the second act would reuse gimmicks, with the level assets recolored and another song used. This, however, never went anywhere, and was left as an one-off idea. #PTWtrivia

McPig's message in Pizza Tower Discord (Here named Noiblin) from April 18th, 2019:
"Desert --> Crashed UFO
Medieval plains --> Farm
Creepy plains --> Mansion
Sewer --> Sewage garbage wasteland exterior
Factory --> industrial tunnels
Streets --> Sausage Restaurant
Freezer --> Frozen giant monsters
Hawaain Party --> Kung-fu training grounds
Moving Circus Tent --> Giant balloons in the sky
Space --> Eldritch cheese zone
im going fucking mad
this is what pizza tower dev withdrawal does to me
basically im about to seperate each levels into 2 acts, and extend the ones that are already there
to give them wacky and less generic themes"

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 21/02/2025

PIZZA TOWER TRIVIA The third Oh Shit! background was actually slightly different in the January video update. It featured a sausage, floating in the water, alongside colors being more saturated. The sausage was removed in the following build, however it was readded in the release version. #PTWtrivia

Comparison image between the three variants of the third Oh Shit! background

PEPPINO REACTS to the January update with better bitrate!
* Features the sausage
* Very saturated

April 2021 Build
* The sausage is missing
* Less saturated

Release version
* The sausage is readded
* Dark outline became brown

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 17/02/2025

PIZZA TOWER TRIVIA Did you know that Early Test Build level features a proper background? More often it's blocked off by the Peppino statues and pillars, which make it hard to see. This technically makes it the first background made for the game, that isn't made out of the tiles. #PTWtrivia

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 17/02/2025

Hello bluesky people! This is JustDenys1, one of the admins for the PTW, now that I have access to this account, from now on I will post PT trivia every now and then that not many people know about, primarily it will be about the graphics, but other things might appear as well.

my (JustDenys1's) sona waving, with the text saying "hi"

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 20/12/2024

Regarding archival development builds of Pizza Tower the wiki had previously linked to:

On December 16th, an archive of developmental Pizza Tower builds was taken down and replaced with an explanation written by the maintainer blaming McPig and Tour De Pizza for being anti-preservationist. We believe that these claims are unsubstantiated and instead stem from longtime personal disagreements and issues between the archive maintainer and Tour De Pizza. Furthermore, the archive maintainer has escalated to stalking and drawn-out harassment due to these disagreements.
We will be removing links on the wiki to the archive and will be searching for alternatives. We also ask that Tour De Pizza and the archive maintainer are not contacted over this issue.
Thank you.

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Pizza Tower Wiki @pizzatower.wiki · 15/11/2024

First post! Whoopee! We have a Bluesky account! Will likely be used to share Pizza Tower fanart and just give updates about the wiki, which can be found at pizzatower.wiki! #PizzaTower (art provided by @superkirbylover.me)

Peppino squinting at a large, blue butterfly with The Noise riding on its back. The sun is bright, casting rays down below.

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