Long story short: It was announced the other day that Resident Evil 1 was going to be getting a re-release. Again.
This will be an HD re-release of the 2002 GameCube rendition, which was already a re-make from the original 1996 classic that was released on the Piss1, before it was also ported out to the Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 and DS. In spite of the fact that the re-make had some modifications to the setting and execution of the story, it’s still fundamentally the same plot as the original version of the game, although it’s popularly argued that the re-makes’ slight alterations to the game justify not necessarily accepting it as RE storyline canon.
That being said, the bottom line is that the concept of Resident Evil 1 has been beaten like a dead horse, dug up and beaten some more.