Picture: Jim Norman / Nintendo LifeMossmouth’s glorious retro compilation UFO 50 was certainly one of our video games of the yr when it lastly arrived on Swap again in August 2025. The 50 video games of the fictional LX system have wolfed up hours (and hours) of our time within the months since, and simply after we thought we had been free from its clutches, Fangamer needed to go and drag us in once more.
You see, the outlet not too long ago launched the UFO 50 ‘Deluxe Version’, a long-awaited bodily launch for Swap which, alongside a boxed copy of the sport, throws in a bunch of tie-in merchandise besides.
Nevertheless, the Deluxe Version extras aren’t your regular ‘Collector’s Version’ paraphernalia of buying and selling playing cards and pin badges, ready to be misplaced in an workplace drawer inside weeks of opening. No, UFO 50’s bonus goodies are each bit as nostalgia-inducing as you’ll hope.
The nice folks over at Fangamer had been type sufficient to ship us a duplicate of this very Deluxe Version, and we thought it solely proper to point out you beautiful of us among the goodies contained inside.
So, be a part of us on this unboxing tour! We’ll begin with the DE field itself, which is modelled on the sport’s LX residence console, for a contact of world-building proper from the soar.
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Other than the bodily copy itself (extra on that in only a second), the pièce de résistance of this launch is the ‘UFO Companion’, an official, 116-page information to the gathering, filled with tutorials and secrets and techniques for every recreation.
Just like the in-game menus and reference supplies, every part in right here is solely devoted to the bit. There isn’t any tongue-in-cheek ‘we all know this console is not really actual’ winking to be present in right here. If historians stumbled throughout this ebook lots of of years from now, they’d assume it was an actual information for actual video games from the ’80s — albeit one in phenomenally good situation, god bless trendy printing.
Photographs: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life
Picture: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life
If it is much more world-building you are after, the bundle additionally throws in bodily copies of one of many recreation’s ‘design paperwork’, an excerpt of the LX Star Publication (talked about briefly in-game), a promo poster for the console itself, and a paper copy of the Bug Hunter disk.
Fangamer has stored the contents of each the design doc and publication a secret on-line, and since each comprise particulars that not everybody goes to need to see, we have adopted an analogous method within the photos beneath. Nothing’s getting spoiled on our watch!
Photographs: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life
Then we now have the primary occasion: the bodily case. It is fairly the looker, we’re positive you will agree, however the actual kicker here’s a reversible cowl, that includes the LX staple, Barbuta. This flip-side even options genuine ‘crease’ marks printed on the reverse to actually up the nostalgia. Discuss consideration to element, eh?
Photographs: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life
Photographs: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life
And eventually, what sort of self-respecting Deluxe Version would launch and not using a boatload of stickers? UFO 50 is not any exception, after all. Other than particular person stickers for every of the compilation video games (excellent for marking your progress within the information), the discharge additionally comes with the next lovable units.
Picture: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life
There you will have it! It is fairly the gathering, no? The UFO 50 Deluxe Version is now accessible on the North American Fangamer web site for $59. Alternatively, you’ll be able to decide up each the usual bodily launch and the Companion Information individually on the European retailer for €39/€26, respectively.
Our due to Fangamer for sending a duplicate of the UFO 50 Deluxe Version!
Have you ever picked up a duplicate of your individual? Tell us within the feedback.
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