I know this might be an unusual post, since this is a new game, but hear me out!

I just picked up UFO 50 this week, and I can’t recommend this enough to anyone who loves retro gaming. The premise is that this is a collection of 50 games from a fictional 8-bit console in the 1980s, with a little info card for each one providing its release date, developers, and some trivia. The game selection screen shows 50 cartridges to choose from:

These are all full games like you might have seen during the era - not minigames or demos, and the ones I’ve booted up feel pretty authentically 8-bit (with some modern QoL things thrown in). There are all sorts of cool ideas and game types: platformers, a point and click adventure, bullet hells, at least one full JRPG, etc.

Some examples:

It looks like as you browse through the chronological library, you see a sequel or two of previous titles. This was made by the team that created Spelunky, and it wasn’t even on my radar until I fortunately saw a video a few days ago of one of the individual games (followed by some confusion when I couldn’t figure out where to buy that game by itself). If any of this appeals to you at all, I highly recommend checking it out.

  • popcar2@programming.devEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I have been obsessed with this game since it came out. I’ve already put in 60 hours and got 14 games cherried (which means 100%ing them, getting a true ending, or beating a difficult challenge).

    I’m writing an incredibly long blog post where I review every single game in the pack. Excited to finish & share it once I’m done playing through everything.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Holy wow.

      Where are you posting this? I’d be very interested in reading! I’ve only just gotten started, but I can already feel that I’m going to sink a ton of time into this game.

      • popcar2@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I’ll post it on Lemmy once it’s done. I’m still not entirely sure which gaming communities would be most suitable but it’ll definitely be in !blogging@programming.dev :)

        That said, UFO 50 is truly massive, so it’ll be some time before I finish this thing. One of the games I haven’t started yet is apparently a 20+ hour JRPG, so that’ll be fun.