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

If you know who Earnest Evans is without Googling, you've earned a certain kind of respect in collecting circles. The Earnest Evans Collector's Edition on PlayStation 5 resurrects one of the Genesis era's most ambitious, wildly janky action platformers and gives it the physical treatment it never got the first time around.

This is a game that tried to be Indiana Jones on a 16-bit console. The character animation was bizarre, the physics were unhinged, and somehow it all became endearing over the decades. Now it's sitting in a PS5 case, which is a sentence nobody in 1991 could have predicted. The softcover artbook is the real draw for historians. Seeing the original concept art and design work behind a game this obscure is a genuine gift. The CD soundtrack lets you revisit the Wolfteam compositions outside the chaos of gameplay, and the commemorative coin gives the set a tactile, collectible anchor.

This isn't a mainstream release. It's not going to sit in big-box retail. That's the point. The Earnest Evans Collector's Edition is for the collectors who dig deep, who care about preservation, and who want their shelves to tell a story that goes beyond the obvious. Limited physical runs of obscure titles don't stay available forever. If this one resonates with you, you already know why.