I've never played the original game. Played a bit of RE2 and RE3: Nemesis back in the day on the Dreamcast, but never got all that far into them. Code Veronica was the one RE game that I really got into back in the day (also on the Dreamcast), but I remember doing a pretty poor job of inventory management and got to the final boss with far less firepower than necessary and could never beat it. Apparently didn't do a good job at saving either, and never got around to playing it.
Would love it if they did a re-release of those early games with modern graphics and control schemes. Would really like to revisit some of them, but the control schemes on those early games were just awful, something I just don't have the patience for anymore.