Survival horror is a style of game that first appeared in 1993 when Infogrames released a classic PC game called "Alone in the Dark."
PC games are not big in Japan, and neither was survival horror when Capcom's Shinji Mikami took it several steps further with his "Biohazard" series. "Alone in the Dark" had crude-looking settings and characters that were roughly hewn out of limited polygons. Working on PlayStation and Saturn, Mikami created beautiful pre-rendered settings.
Survival horror is a style of game in which players guide a character through a 3-D environment filled with monsters and murderers.