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| Genre | Survival Horror | ||||||||||||
| Developer(s) | Capcom Nextech (Saturn) | ||||||||||||
| Publisher(s) | PlayStation Capcom (NA/JP) Windows 95 Virgin Interactive (NA/PAL) Capcom (JP) Saturn Capcom DS Capcom Nintendo Australia (AUS) | ||||||||||||
| Composer(s) | Makoto Tomozawa Akari Kaida Masami Ueda | ||||||||||||
| Series | Resident Evil series | ||||||||||||
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Windows 95 PlayStation Network, Nintendo DS | ||||||||||||
| Release Date | PlayStation NA March 30, 1996 JP March 22, 1996 PAL August 1, 1996 Windows 95 NA September 30, 1997 JP December 6, 1996 PAL September 17, 1997 Saturn NA August 31, 1997 JP July 25, 1997 PAL October 1, 1997 Nintendo DS NA February 7, 2006 JP January 19, 2006 PAL March 30, 2006 PlayStation Network NA May 28, 2009 JP November 22, 2006 (Director's Cut) PAL March 23, 2011 (Director's Cut | ||||||||||||
| Mode(s) | Single-player | ||||||||||||
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Resident Evil, known as Bio Hazard or Biohazard in Japan, is a survival horror video game by Capcom. The first installment in the Resident Evil series, it was originally released in 1996 for the PlayStation and was subsequently ported to the Sega Saturn and PC. In 2002, a remake of the game was released for the Nintendo GameCube featuring new graphics, voice acting and many gameplay changes. A Nintendo DS port of the original was released in 2006 titled Resident Evil: Deadly Silence.
It was one of the first games to be dubbed a "survival horror", borrowing from the "ambient survival horror" genre coined by Alone in the Dark. Accordingly, Game Informer refers to "the original Resident Evil" as "one of the most important games of all time." The inspiration for Resident Evil was the earlier Capcom game Sweet Home. Shinji Mikami was initially commissioned to make a horror game set in a haunted mansion like Sweet Home, which Resident Evil was originally intended to be a remake of.
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| Main series | Resident Evil (Remake) - Resident Evil 2 - Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - Resident Evil Code: Veronica - Resident Evil Zero - Resident Evil 4 - Resident Evil 5 - Resident Evil Revelations |
| Survivor series | Resident Evil Survivor - Resident Evil: Dead Aim |
| Outbreak series | Resident Evil Outbreak - Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 |
| Chronicles series | Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles |
| Mobile games | The Missions - Confidental Report - Genesis - Mercenaries VS - Degeneration - Assault the Nightmare - Zombie Buster - Uprising - Outbreak Survive - Afterlife Movie Game |
| Other | Resident Evil Gaiden - Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D - Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City - Resident Evil Portable |