UFO 50 creates the feeling of wide-openness, that video games can be anything. This is a feeling that has only thrived on the margins in video games and thus un-markable as a generalized nostalgia.

One thing I initially found off-putting about UFO 50 — Spelunky developer Mossmouth’s new release that’s actually a collection of 50 games that run on an imagined 1980s console called the LX ...