Earnest Evans Collector's Edition (Switch, PS5, PS4)

If you know Earnest Evans, you already know why this exists. If you don't, buckle up. The Earnest Evans Collector's Edition on Nintendo Switch revives one of the Genesis era's most infamous action platformers, a game that tried to be Indiana Jones with rotoscoped animation and ended up becoming a cult classic for entirely different reasons.

Earnest Evans is janky, wild, and completely unforgettable. The character's limbs flail like a marionette in a hurricane, and the game leans into spectacle over precision in a way that's become genuinely endearing over time. Getting this collection on Switch with a proper physical release is the kind of thing that would have seemed impossible a decade ago.

The softcover artbook gives visual context to a game that was always more ambitious than its hardware could handle, and flipping through the art reveals just how much creative vision was packed into those 16-bit cartridges. The CD soundtrack is a solid inclusion for a series with surprisingly strong compositions. The commemorative coin adds a tactile collectible that works on a shelf or in a display case.

This is a preservation play as much as it is a collector's edition. Games like Earnest Evans slip through the cracks of history without releases like this, and for collectors who value the weird, the wonderful, and the deeply obscure corners of gaming, this edition is exactly where your attention should be.