10 Weirdest Video Game Ports You Won't Believe
3. Resident Evil 2 (The "Game.Com" Console)
The Tiger's back to take another bite, and this time it's taking a chomp out of Capcom with their port of Resident Evil 2. After their LCD games made them more money than all sanity in the universe dictates they should have, they decided to try their hand at an actual console.
This resulted in the Game.Com, a black and white handheld that was notable for being the first handheld game with touchscreen and internet capabilities, but beyond that, was pretty unremarkable. Mostly because it had very few games to its name. One of these was a port of Capcom's Resident Evil 2.
Taking a 3D survival horror game and trying to convert it into a 2D sidescroller while maintaining the elements that made Resident Evil 2 so great would be hard enough for a team that knew what they were doing. But this odd beast of a port is mostly forgotten for a very good reason: the guys who made it clearly did not know what they were doing.
It seems odd that Capcom would trust their biggest new IP to a brand new console made by an infamous company like Tiger. But then again, this is Capcom we're talking about.