 Stop it. Don't open that door. All of these things made it a massive hit. It brought the survival horror genre into the mainstream and inspired competitors like Silent Hill. And after a dearth of other zombie-related media in the 90s, you could argue it even primed the next decade for its own zombie craze. Resident Evil 1 literally saved Capcom from financial ruin in the latter half of the 90s. That's Alex Aniel.