Limited Run #385: Ground Zero: Texas - Nuclear Edition (PS4)

FMV games from the early '90s occupy a very specific corner of collecting, somewhere between genuine curiosity and beautiful absurdity. Limited Run #385: Ground Zero: Texas, Nuclear Edition for the PlayStation 4 brings one of the strangest Sega CD titles back from the dead on physical disc, region free, with reversible cover art to boot. Which cover faces outward was randomized at the factory, so you won't know what you're getting until it arrives.

Ground Zero: Texas was the kind of game that could only exist in the FMV gold rush. You're a tactical weapons expert dropped into a dusty Texas border town crawling with aliens disguised as humans. You manage BattleCams armed with particle beams. You hunt alien weapon stashes with a RoverCam. It's ridiculous, it's ambitious, and it's a genuine piece of gaming history that most people forgot existed.

That's exactly why this PS4 disc matters. The pre-digital distribution era on PlayStation 4 gave us a window where physical releases of deep-cut titles like this were actually possible. The reversible cover art adds a nice display wrinkle for collectors who care about presentation. For those of us who remember the promise of interactive movies, or who just appreciate the weird detours gaming took on the way to where it is now, this Nuclear Edition is a conversation piece and a time capsule rolled into one.