Everyone stops talking for a second, okay? Nothing else you have to say right now is important to me or to someone else. All that is important is that UFO 50 is now available at Nintendo Switch. Not even Switch 2! I mean, it will also change 2, boo, so woo!
The important thing is that UFO 50 was my game a year and probably the game that I randomly throw on most when I'm bored or need to kill a few minutes. It is the largest collection of fictional games ever made, and I say that someone who owns several copies in several languages in almost every Warioware game ever released.
As Angela says in Silent Hill 2, “I don't lie!” She talked about something more serious, but the feeling is the same.
UFO 50 has the best real, fake games that money can buy
You want to have fun in your life, right? That is why you are here on a video game website. That's why you kill time at work by looking at all the fun you can have if you just clicked on a small “buy now” button on a website owned by a large company. I know this article itself is on a website owned by a large company, but someone has to give baby money for these games, and I am a 41-year-old man whose parents made extremely poor financial decisions.
But you know what is A good financial decision? Repurchase of UFO 50, although I have grossly invested the same time in that it takes a child to learn to speak.
And let's be honest here: ufo 50 should have always been on the switch. It is so Nintendo coded from the 1980s. It fills me with the closest I have ever known about happiness. For those of you who have not seen God's light, UFO 50 is a collection of fifty fictional 8-bit games for a fictional console. There is a little more below the surface you can explore when it comes to the console and the fictional development of the games, which is fantastic, but let me just sell you in the first part: fifty new games.
And who made from America's Next Top Model Cycle 6 always said: Don't get it twisted. These are real game. Between 1985 and 1992, each individual game here would probably have sold for $ 50 on their own. But they didn't. Because they are not real. I mean they are now.
UFO 50 belongs on the switch
I'm serious when I say this game was born for a Nintendo console. It's like opening the door to another dimension where Nintendo never existed and another company took its place and released similar but completely strange 8-bit games of their own. These games range from sports to platform players to arcade shooters to horror adventures with legitimate jumpscares to full JRPG with memorable characters.
I know I have said this before, but the only experience that even comes close to what UFO 50 dates off is Retro Game Challenge, a Nintendo DS collection of fictional Famicom games that no one in the West bought, which meant we did not get the sequel or Nintendo Switch remake. It is not the world I want to live in anymore.
Playing UFO 50 really feels like being a child again. It makes you feel nostalgic without just extinguishing fan service on your plate like wet cafeteria meat. It is a throw without being a reminder that many of the games that my generation played when the kids were sucking. It's as if someone took everything Good about the era and removed each Cash part.
Getting a new game that children used to feel almost mysterious: especially when a parent or grandparent took a wild swing on something strange that was for sale. Going in blind to playing these games was infinitely more satisfying than spending two years learning every detail online before I got the chance to play anything.
UFO 50 earns its nostalgia
And look, I get right now that it sounds like I'm doing a case for nostalgia before internet. I am not. As much as things suck now, they sucked differently then, so this is not something Bukolian “if I was a boy again, life would be perfect” shit. It is so that they actually caught the look and the feeling of finding new, strange games in a rental shop or your friend's house.
UFO 50 games like The Exploration-Heavy Barbuta are confusing and scary how Metroid felt when I first played it. Others, such as the action platform Ninpek, I have played so much that they have somehow been taken retroactively in my childhood memory.
The phrase “There is something for everyone” is a clumsy cliché, but in a collection of 50 new “retro” games that actually apply here. Do you like strategy? Bug Hunter is fantastic and Avianos is even better. Avianos is also about birds that worship dinosaurs, which would alone sell me on a game. Do you like sports? Bushido Ball feels like a NES game that would have caused fistfights between siblings.
You like Pinball and Golf combined and wish there were more games that contained it? You will want to sit down: Pingolf is a game in this collection and that is exactly how it sounds like. Oh, you like golf, but you wish it was an open adventure? Golfia is there for you. Don't worry about your laundry. Don't worry about your job. We have everything on UFO 50.
The trick to UFO 50 is that it just drops you in the middle of a bunch of dusty game counters and says you should do what you want. There is a “chronological” order of fictional editions, but who cares? Choose what looks good and drive with it. Explore games, try new things, discover secrets. These are all full titles with full experiences that could have lived on their own. Half of the fun in this thing is to open something stupid and realize that it is one of the most convincing games ever made (Party House, Baby!).
I know I'm a sucker to buy the same thing more than once. I know I'm a dork to have UFO 50 on two different portable devices (Steam Deck and Switch 2) that are literally next to each other on my shelf. But God, this is an incredible collection of some incredible games. And it works on the original switch as well as Switch 2, so you have no excuses, children.
