Limited Run #498: A Boy and His Blob Retro Collection (PS4)

Jellybeans have never been more collectible. Limited Run #498: A Boy and His Blob Retro Collection for PlayStation 4 gathers two of the most charmingly odd platformers ever made onto a single region-free physical disc that also works on PlayStation 5. This Retro Collection includes the original NES classic A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia and its Game Boy follow-up, The Rescue of Princess Blobette.

If you grew up in the late '80s and early '90s, these games were a rite of passage in creative problem-solving, feeding your amorphous buddy different jellybean flavors to transform him into ladders, trampolines, and blowtorches. Designer David Crane gave us something truly weird and wonderful, and it's aged into the kind of cult classic that collectors hunt specifically because it represents a time when developers just swung for the fences with bizarre concepts. The PS4 disc format with PS5 backward compatibility makes this a future-proof pickup, ensuring these NES and Game Boy originals have a permanent physical home on modern hardware.

For retro collectors building a PS4 library of curated classics, this one fills a slot that nothing else can. Two games, one blob, zero substitutes.