You need to play this game. It started the survival horror genre, and it did it right because you learned to fear the inhabitants of the house. Some you could fight, if you could work out how. Some you couldn't, and your only hope was to avoid and evade. In a very real sense this is up there with Space Invaders, Wolfenstien 3D and other ground breaking games. You don't need to finish it, but you do need to play it at least once. That said, the decay set it pretty quickly. 1 is a classic, 2 and 3 where never as good. But buy it for the first one at least.
