Welcome back to Is It Still Fun Today, our show where we revisit Classic Games to answer the question, Is It Still Fun Today. I'm joined by Nick Limon, Sam Claiborne, and Michael Hyam. Welcome, everybody. This is our second episode. Hopefully you caught the first one on The Legend of Zelda, Ocreen of Time. Spoiler alert, pretty fun game to play today still. You can find that episode here on IGN's YouTube channel or in the IGIN GameScoop Podcast Feet. Now, you may have heard that this year is IGN's 30th anniversary. As part of that celebration, we thought it would be good to do a few Is It Still Fun episodes on games from 1996. So to kick things off, we're starting with the game that itself kicked off an entire genre, start of the that is still going strong, could be argued, is doing better than ever today.

We were about to revisit the original Resident Evil from 1996.

Ages. I think the last time I genuinely played this game was near its launch window.

And my cousin had it on his PlayStation, and I was much too young to play it.

So the second that, like, FMV cutscene of the zombie, or it's the CG cutscene of the zombie turning around.

I got way too scared and ran out of the room.

I was like, no-uh, I'm not doing this.

I can't handle this.

I got a weak constitution.

I got to go.

But, you know, I'm ready to face my fears.

And Michael, you actually played this on your own earlier this year, right?

I did.

I was getting excited for RE9, aka Resident Evil

Requiem, and I've been doing a whole play-through of the series, so I did start with the original. I played the remake, though, but I think for this, I am going to play the original PS-1, or find a way to play the original PS-1 version. Also came to Saturn, so if you have a Saturn lying around. I super don't.

I've got one out there. I will say, the one

thing I'll say is that I think I'm getting to the age in which I am finding old games with clunky controls to be fun. Oh, okay. That might be my answer already. As long as you know you're getting into, the challenge comes from the controls, right? Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, 1,000%. Sam, it is known to Scoop Nation that you love Resident Evil. When did you last play the original? Yeah, so I, weirdly, probably a rental, but at my cousin's house, like, that's exactly what happened to me too. I was between liking video games at the time, and so I wasn't super into the PlayStation 1.

But I do remember these games having black compact discs instead of silver, and it blew my mind.

And then I remember thinking the FMBs were just so bad.

And I couldn't believe that people were into this game.

And then I played the remake on GameCube and of course I I fell in love with that game and Resident Evil Zero at that time

I don't have a lot of experience playing the actual PS1 version I 100% have it on disc

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