Resident Evil’s Proud Papa Speaks On The Series’ Twentieth Birthday

  These days, you can’t move in the gametastic world for all the damn zombies everywhere. We’re up to our scrotes in arcade shooters with shamblers, post-apocalyptic survival games full of them, all that kind of stuff. Whose fault is that? Resident Evil’s, probably.  

The original game hit twenty years ago yesterday, pretty well inventing survival horror games while it was about it. It did for the genre what Mario Kart did for kart racers, in a kinda sorta way, and that’s a big deal.

Needless to say, then, Capcom are milking the Evil’s big 20 as hard as they can. Hyping it up ‘til it can be hyped no more. We’re up to our scrotes in HD remasters, new announcements and all of that, and Umbrella Corps is on its way. All that’s missing is Resident Evil 7, but we haven’t heard a damn thing about that.

What we do have is a steady trickle of all kinds of little homages and tributes and such. Like what’s happening over Pokémon way (a series also celebrating its twentieth birthday). This latest is pretty neat, an interview with Resident Evil stalwart Hiroyuki Kobayashi. This guy knows his shit, having been involved in all the games --and movies bar one—since it all began.

Franchise fans will want to hit those English closed captions and take an ogle at his reminiscences.