Resident Evil Survivor[a] is a
first-person light gun shooter video game developed by
Tose and published by
Capcom. It was released on the
PlayStation in Japan on January 27, 2000, in Europe on March 31, 2000 and in North America on August 30, 2000. It is a
spin-off of the
Resident Evil video game series. It is also the first, first-person perspective
Resident Evil game predating
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard by seventeen years. A
Microsoft Windows version was released only in
China and
Taiwan on September 7, 2002.
As the first release of the
Gun Survivor series, this game was a major difference from the main
Resident Evil series, substituting the third-person perspective of the previous games to a
first-person view. The Japanese and European versions of the game were compatible with
Namco's
GunCon/G-Con 45 light gun, making it one of the first off-
rail light gun games, whereas light-gun compatibility was removed from the North American release due to shooting games being partly blamed for the motivation of the then-recent
Columbine High School massacre.
[1] It was followed by
Resident Evil Survivor 2 – Code: Veronica.