Resident Evil was announced in 1999 to be released on the Gameboy Color handheld system.
Unfortunatly, as quickly people had heard about this game, it was just
as quickly cancelled by CAPCOM due to technical issues, mainly due to
it being lapse in quality.

The game was to be a complete port of the Playstation and Saturn
versions as much as the game could be. There was no mention on the
game's cutscenes, but I dare say they were done via text. The game's
developers and CAPCOM boasted that the game would have new enemies
while keeping all the original enemies from the Playstation/Saturn
version and a new Save feature, acessed from the Start menu. It seemed
a more ideal way due to the fact the Playstation version's save points
were far inbetween each other, something which is useless for a
handheld title.

Via compression the game was able to fit onto the 4MB Gameboy Color
catridge, but by this point the game was seen as truley just rubbish.
With that in mind, CAPCOM went ahead and pulled the plug on the game
and later re-planned their Gameboy Color Resident Evil title with the
Gameboy Colors limmitiations in mind and made the game Resident Evil
Gaiden.