Revolutionary? I think this is deserving of a rant.....

Resident Evil wasn't the first survival horror game. That honor goes to Alone In The Dark. The title describes the game perfectly. You're alone in a very dark house... or are you? Not only was it the first, but in a lot of ways I liked it MORE than RE. For one thing, RE gives you like 50,000,000,000 chances to recover health. AitD gives you about 2. Resident Evil had lots and lots of shooting. AitD had monsters constantly entering from the same hole in the ground until you pushed a rock on top of it or something. Resident Evil had weird mutant zombies. AitD had haunted paintings that threw axes at you. Just everything about the game was creepy. The music, the environments.... everything. I clearly remember one point where the PoV shifted to outside of the window of the room I was in, and everything was all reddish... I had no idea what I was in for.... And when did the game come out? If memory serves...... it was 1994.