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In a franchise as dense and prolific as Resident Evil, there’s bound to be a buffet congealing on the cutting room floor. The series’ abandoned games have become the stuff of legend; a discarded drafts folder that includes ports that pushed classic hardware past its limits and phantom prototypes for consoles that never made it to the West.
While the name Resident Evil is often considered synonymous with PlayStation, thanks to the series getting its start on Sony hardware, Capcom’s survival horror has had a comfortable relationship with Nintendo across the years. While that collaboration is beloved for birthing the once GameCube-exclusive Resident Evil 4, there have been a couple of less-successful ventures on Nintendo consoles.
Resident Evil has never been a stranger to handheld hardware, though its early track record came with casualties. The series’ portable debut on Tiger’s doomed, ignominious Game.com device in 1998 bode ill for Resi’s viability in one’s pocket, but Capcom wasn’t about to give up on the idea of carrying survival horror around in your shorts.
The hardware wasn’t making it easy, though. Handheld gaming was in its AA battery and magnifying lens era, a time of chunky underpowered devices with atrocious screens and
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