Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PS and it was published by Konami and was developed by Team Silent, a Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo group. It is the first installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in North America on January 31, 1999. It was released in Japan and Europe later that year. Silent Hill uses a third-person view, with real-time 3D environments. To mitigate limitations of the hardware, developers liberally used fog and darkness to muddle the graphics. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the player character of Silent Hill is an " everyman ".
The game follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the eponymous fictional American town of Silent Hill. He stumbles upon a cult conducting a ritual to revive a deity it worships, he discovers its true origin. There are 5 game endings, to get them you have to choose certain actions by the player, including one joke ending.
Silent Hill received positive reviews from critics on its release and was commercially successful. It is considered a defining title in the survival horror genre, moving away from B movie horror emphasizing atmosphere. Various adaptations of Silent Hill have been released, including a 2001 visual novel, the 2006 feature film Silent Hill, and a 2009 reimagining of the game, titled Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. The game was followed by Silent Hill 2 in 2001.