Switch Limited Run #65: Streets of Rage 4 Limited Edition

They don't make them like this anymore, which is exactly why this exists. Switch Limited Run #65: Streets of Rage 4 Limited Edition for the Nintendo Switch is limited to just 1,500 copies worldwide, and the package inside is a love letter to the Genesis era that borders on obsessive. You get the game in a reversible "Bare Knuckle IV" cover with manual, a SteelBook, a commemorative metal cartridge housed inside a standard Genesis clamshell case, a 7-inch statue, a chicken stress ball (yes, really), an original CD soundtrack, an art book, an 18x24 poster, and an enlarged custom Genesis case that holds everything together.

The metal cartridge in the Genesis case is the kind of detail that separates good collector's editions from legendary ones. Streets of Rage 4 itself delivered on two decades of anticipation, proving that the beat-em-up genre still had gas in the tank. The hand-drawn art, Yuzo Koshiro's return to the soundtrack, the frame-perfect combat.

It all clicked. At 1,500 copies, this Limited Edition is already one of the harder Switch sets to track down. The Genesis-styled packaging makes it a bridge between eras, a modern classic dressed in the clothes of our childhood.