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This one has me stumped. In fact, I may need to give my friends at Time Extension a call, because I’ve never heard of this.
UFO: A Day in the Life will launch on the PS5 via Hamster’s Console Archives this week, from 6th August.
It’s a PS1 game by a Japanese dev composed primarily of ex-Squaresoft staff which first launched in 1999, exclusively in Japan.
And the concept is this: you’ve been tasked with saving 50 different invisible aliens who have crash landed on Earth through the magic of… Well, photography?
It seems taking pictures of the extraterrestrials with a device called the Cosmo Scanner causes them to reappear, thus adding them to your inventory and opening up new areas.
What’s particularly unique about this game is it takes place in an apartment complex, where you’ll experience “the human drama that unfolds within its walls”.
As I mentioned earlier, this game was never released outside of Japan, so it’s making its worldwide debut here – although it’s not been localised, so you will need to navigate the Japanese text if you do decide to pick this up.
It’ll be joined by Konami’s 1987 military bootcamp effort Combat School in Hamster’s Arcade Archives line, which is also due out on 6th August.
I want to support both of these but I’ve been spending too much on these retro releases of late; I picked up the Famicom Doraemon game last week, which I’ve been really enjoying as well.
Do any of these take your fancy? Let me know if you’ve played UFO: A Day in the Life in the comments section, I’d genuinely never heard of it until today.