Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post
Oh crap, well there was a Clock Tower game on SNES that was only released in Japan, so that was pretty early survival horror.
Alone in the Dark actually predates Clock Tower by 3 years.

According to wikipedia, some consider Haunted House to be the first real survivor horror game. Haven't played it myself but reading the description of the gameplay it not only sounds really cool, but I think I might have to agree unless I can find anything earlier which could be difficult even if such a game exists.