The Resident Evil remake is amazing. Really great. But do you know what is good? Original Resident Evil. well, hey. Look, I admit it, basically all the re-remakes Capcom put out have been whacked, improving the game they're based on all sorts of clever ways, but there's still a part of me who yearns for the awkward, badly voiced appeal of the original PS1 game. Perhaps the word "better" is wrong, but is it important? iconic? Nostalgic're original is all of these things and more.

So it's no small excitement for me to tell you that the original 1996 Resident Evil just got a mysterious new PC PEGI rating (Via Gematsu), suggesting something is going on in the game, and it seems likely to me that something is some kind of release. It is easy to use. You can find it yourself on the 'Resident Evil' PEGI website, and the list still appears to be live at the time of writing. There is clearly violence. News to me. 

Well, you may wonder what the big deal is. After all, Resident Evil 1 has been available on Steam for years. The thing is, it is a touch-up remaster of the Gamecube remake, and not the original 1996 version of the game. That PlayStation version got a Windows release the same year, but never appeared in digital stores. Random pop-ups on the PEGI website do not necessarily mean anything, but that older versions of the game will be re-released

In fact there were two versions of OG RE: the one that first came out and its director's cut version, Spencer. - Mix things like placement of enemies with items throughout the mansion. The PEGI rating doesn't show much about which version it refers to. But given that the version available on PS4 and PS5 is Director's Cut, I would be surprised if it wasn't.

It is pure speculation on my part, but if this is a digital release of the original re, I would not hold much hope for modernization. I mean it just meant that someone at Capcom noticed that the company had a PC game back in the catalog that might be released on Steam, but still, I would be very happy to see the classics saved (legally) on the PC, and if that meant, we could one day be down the line with RE2. RE3 Digital