10 Lost Video Games That Were Discovered Years Later
7. Resident Evil - GameBoy Color
There aren't many consoles from 1996 onwards that don't have some kind of Resident Evil game on them. Whilst it hasn't been brought forward for quite some time, the original Resident Evil had three releases for PlayStation, shambled its way onto the Sega Saturn and PC and eventually took a bite out of the Nintendo DS in 2006.
This final note is particularly important as it marks a happy ending to a tumultuous story of trying to make Resident Evil an on-the-go experience.
Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto was attracted to handheld gaming, which had served Nintendo well through the 90s, hitting another boom nearing the turn of the millennium thanks to Pokémon and the GameBoy Color . Capcom hired UK team HotGen, led by Fergus McGovern, who had previously worked at Probe Entertainment and had experience in porting arcade games to home consoles.
In what is surely one of the most ambitious but doomed ports of all time, moving Resident Evil from PlayStation to GameBoy Color was a remarkable ask. Early screenshots looked promising in how faithful they were but the release missed several deadlines and then hit the wall of cancellation.
In 2012, different prototypes of the game were dropped online which confirmed just how ambitious and how doomed the project was. It's clear that Resident Evil on GameBoy Color was never going to work but it's marvellous that something so bold even existed at all.