Mossmouth’s wonderful retro compilation UFO 50 was certainly one of our video games of the yr when it lastly arrived on Change again in August 2025. The 50 video games of the fictional LX system have devoured up hours (and hours) of our time within the months since, and simply once we thought we have been free from its clutches, Fangamer needed to go and drag us in yet again.
You see, the outlet not too long ago launched the UFO 50 ‘Deluxe Version’, a long-awaited bodily launch for Change which, alongside a boxed copy of the sport, throws in a bunch of tie-in merchandise as well.
Nonetheless, the Deluxe Version extras aren’t your traditional ‘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’d hope.
The great folks over at Fangamer have been sort sufficient to ship us a duplicate of this very Deluxe Version, and we thought it solely proper to indicate you pretty of us a few of 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 dwelling console, for a contact of world-building proper from the soar.
Apart from 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, full of tutorials and secrets and techniques for each sport.
Just like the in-game menus and reference supplies, the whole lot in right here is completely devoted to the bit. There is no tongue-in-cheek ‘we all know this console is not really actual’ winking to be present in right here. If historians stumbled throughout this guide a whole lot 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.
If it is much more world-building you are after, the bundle additionally throws in bodily copies of one of many sport’s ‘design paperwork’, an excerpt of the LX Star E-newsletter (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 include particulars that not everybody goes to need to see, we have adopted an analogous strategy within the footage beneath. Nothing’s getting spoiled on our watch!
Then we’ve the principle occasion: the bodily case. It is fairly the looker, we’re positive you may agree, however the true 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. Speak about consideration to element, eh?
And at last, what sort of self-respecting Deluxe Version would launch with no boatload of stickers? UFO 50 is not any exception, in fact. Apart from particular person stickers for every of the compilation video games (good for marking your progress within the information), the discharge additionally comes with the next lovable units.
There you’ve gotten it! It is fairly the gathering, no? The UFO 50 Deluxe Version is now obtainable on the North American Fangamer web site for $59. Alternatively, you may choose up each the usual bodily launch and the Companion Information individually on the European retailer for €39/€26, respectively.
