Resident Evil

Resident Evil, known as Biohazard (バイオハザード) in Japan, is a successful franchise of horror-adventure video games developed by Capcom. It is credited with popularizing the survival horror game genre, in which the goal is to avoid being killed by monsters, undead and assorted evil creatures bent on attacking the player. The franchise is heavily influenced by George A. Romero's Dead movies.

Parodies

• President Evil, starring President Martti Ahtisaari as the main bad guy, was a parody game published along with the Finnish adult humour magazine Myrkky.
• Random Evil, a sprite comic created by the Resident Evil: Dawn of a new world guild on gaiaonline.com
• Reploid Hunter Iris; Code: Megaman X, another sprite comic parodying Resident Evil by placing the characters from the Mega Man X series in a similar style of plot.