RE2 was released on January 21, 1998 in North America. It sold nearly five million copies, becoming one of the best selling PS1 games. It held a Guinness World Record for “Highest Grossing Survival Horror Game” at the time. Resident Evil 2 was originally almost entirely different as it would have been the infamous Resident…
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Fun Fact: How Capcom Made Resident Evil 1 Harder in America
In the American release of Capcom’s Resident Evil 1, you only got three ink ribbons in a pack to save your game, but in Japan that number was double. Capcom was adamant about preventing players from beating the game after renting it from Blockbuster.
Fun Fact: Resident Evil 1’s Low Expected Sales
The team at Capcom behind Resident Evil 1 only expected to sell 200,000 copies as they expected a horror game to have limited audience.
Fun Fact: Japanese Name For Resident Evil 1
The Japanese title for Capcom’s Resident Evil was Biohazard. The American title was chosen for copyright reasons as in America, nobody can copyright the name Biohazard.
Fun Fact: Two Characters Cut From Resident Evil 1
Capcom had two prototype characters that didn’t make it into the original Resident Evil on PlayStation. One was a African American man with a comic relief intent and another was a cyborg strongman.