Street Fighter 3 - A MOVIE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY! (Why Did No One Play It?)

[@SeekerLancer]

As someone who lived through this as well it's bizarre seeing people try to re-write history. Street Fighter III is an incredible game, honestly one of the best fighting games ever made on a technical level, but it bombed hard in its day. It didn't appeal to casuals and Street Fighter fans balked at the new characters. Arcades were dying, half the people I knew didn't even know a Street Fighter III existed and if anything were more into Alpha 2 and later Alpha 3 as far as playing Street Fighter goes. Tekken III meanwhile was a phenomenon that completely took over the fighting scene of the time with its graphics and gameplay. I say this as someone who isn't even a fan of Tekken, I have no agenda here, it's just how it was in reality. Yes, the fighting game community and hardcore fans embraced SFIII but they were an even smaller niche back then than they are today. All of the people going "well me and my friends played it and loved it," and I'm sure they did hell I was one of them playing Second Impact and Third Strike with friends on Dreamcast, need to realize that they are the exceptions and not how the game performed with a wider audience. People also seem to not understand that you're saying Street Fighter III was overlooked WHEN IT CAME OUT not TODAY.

[@HaussmannComics]

I'm 39. I loved street fighter 2 and spent plenty of time in arcades. I didn't know SF3 existed until it was released on PS2

[@joncollins7730]

Same here but for the xbox lol. Probably walked past it in the arcade dozens of times without really noticing.

[@beezusHrist]

THIS

[@jasondavis2537]

In my youth I used to really enjoy reading about Street Fighter 3 in egm and gamepro magazines. I really love the art direction as well as the uniqueness and challenge of the parry system. Super Arts looked incredible. Anytime I would go on a school trip and we would kill time at the mall I would seek out an arcade to play. I do agree with you top hat gaming man that there were obstacles to playing this game. It wasn't until I got to college in the early 2000s when I bought a Dreamcast that I was able to spend very much time with the game. I would say that Street Fighter 3 third strike is my favorite game of all time. Decades later I'm still playing the game on almost a weekly basis. Thanks for the video. I must be one of the few that enjoyed it from the beginning.

[@starbutter2730]

Glad you stuck with it. I recently got it and its definitely one of my favorite fighting games so far. Its cool seeing people in the comments, including you, reminisce about it

[@sunnymane]

Who are you favorites to use?

[@jasondavis2537]

@@sunnymane I like the cast as a whole. My favorites are Ken and Chun Li through all of the street fighter games.

[@brichan1851]

The greatest fighting game of all time. Period.

[@moham1287]

Sometimes I get sad that Capcom will never make a 2D hand animated Street Fighter again - then I remember that 3rd Strike is the only fighting game I'll ever play

[@elvisp116]

I was thinking this too. No more 2d smh

[@brichan1851]

Wouldn’t it be incredible if a new Darkstalkers came out with HD graphics and animation intensive 2D style? One can hope and pray.

[@brichan1851]

@@jenn5628 it’s because they need massive amounts of data for the frames of animation. Everything today has to be done in higher resolution and the standard is 60 fps. They have to hand draw every frame of every character and the engine needs a ton of RAM to keep everything running smoothly. It’s a tremendous undertaking. I think Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is the last 2D original we can expect from Capcom. Yes, Capcom Fighting Evolution came out on PS2, but it was only reused sprites put in to new backdrops. This wasn’t a new game, really. Everything going forward will probably be 3D. Sad, but true.

[@eddylex4921]

Your absolutely right about no one playing Street Fighter III when it came out, I was 17 at the time of the games release and remember we all thought the game was a little to basic and there wasn't enough new in the title and innovative. Especially when you compared it Alpha 2 at the time which was popular and eating a lot of quarters. Arcade's were also very much dieing at the time here in the states which also contributed to this. I'm going to take this controversy a step further and state that both Super and Super Turbo (the go to SFII game now for tournaments and otherwise) also bombed back then as no one played them. Super had the unfortunate distinction of being released at the same time as the juggernaut Mortal Kombat II everyone was playing that and no one was playing Super. In Japan it faired a little better but in that country everyone was playing Virtua Fighter 2. Super Turbo had a similar fate as most who played the game couldn't get past the first character as the USA & Euro Blue board's were very difficult and very few people came back to the game after this. It's funny no one really played Tekken but when Tekken 2 came out it was the number 1 fighting game in the arcade's at the time. In the USA it was Tekken in Japan it was Virtua Fighter that was King, and the Street Fighter series with the exception of Alpha 2 were good but there were alot of other titles and most people played those instead. Of course it's different now but this is the 90s I'm talking about. Many of you young fanboys weren't alive at the time or in diapers.

[@maguszero8565]

exactly

[@CaptainVulcan]

Quite true. Street Fighter III's popularity had a very rocky start. I was 14 when the game first emerged in arcades back in 97. And I vividly remember many people lining up to play Tekken 3, Soul Edge, X-Men VS Street Fighter, and even KOF 96 (and 97 later that year). Even Street Fighter Alpha 2 was getting a lot more engagement back then. Furthermore, SFIII was getting lukewarm reviews by the big gaming magazines, at best. Simply put, nobody really fugged with SFIII back in the 90s. Sadly. It was definitely a weird era for the franchise and its fan. Remember Gamepro's Sheng Long hoax in vanilla SFIII? The one with the unblockable Denjin Shoryuken super? Exactly. It's not nearly as memorable as the Sheng Long hoax from SFII.

[@kaceejones2282]

@@CaptainVulcan Did you guys played Fatal Fury at that time too how many of yall played Real Bout Special and KOF 97 or SFA3 Real Bout 2 and KOF 98

[@kaceejones2282]

@@CaptainVulcan Especially Art of Fighting 3 since it had less popularity just as Street Fighter 3

[@pjthomas9849]

Wow....a human. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@7ten]

At the time, no one in the UK really touched SF III. It was slow, we didn't get the parry system, we all stuck with Alpha 2/3, and KOF which was really popping off then. SF III New Generation used to sit unplayed, even Tekken 3 was getting more gameplay. It wasn't until much later after EVO moment 2004 that we really understood the depth of 3S. By 2009, TEN YEARS after 3S and THIRTEEN after SF III... It seems like we finally got it.

[@kevinrice4169]

I didn't get to play it until it got rereleased on PS2, but to be fair because I live in a rural area when arcades dies they diiiiieeeeddd, you would see an occasional machine at certain laundry mattes or at mom and pop eateries or pizza shops but it was never guaranteed to even be a fighting game, now in days with the rise of retro gaming there are some stores that'll have arcades but again it's not always a fighting game, so I got his perception of its popularity because unless you were a FGC die hard the casual gamer was not aware of how die hard fighting games were it was still very niche especially in the late 90s, it's interesting looking at how gaming has evolved, changed, and how retro has gained popularity.

[@brittislove]

Making a full length SFIII movie? Yeah that makes sense

[@apierre6]

Great video. Love all these movie length documentaries that you put together

[@greatestutuberhd]

"The down right respect it deserves" I'm only just now catching that one

[@personunkown9847]

25:58 is that E Honda getting a backrub from a monkey and Haggar under a waterfall?

[@TheQueenSpider]

The only reason I bought the game was because of Daigo’s parry.

[@drethemage9559]

I think that is why a lot of people got this game.

[@bruceleeds7988]

1. So did the rest of the world 2. They was buying the THIRD version of the game FIVE years after it came out

[@bruceleeds7988]

That Daigo parry is legend tho!

[@johnmecca9008]

@@bruceleeds7988 legend indeed.

[@marcolatorre6594]

What I remember, and after I had watched your video returned stark and clear, is that 1997 at a point became sad, because arcades were less and less frequented. Few and few people were found there. Where I am living SFIII never arrived.

[@brichan1851]

I do think limiting the Dreamcast sales as the end-all/be-all sales is somewhat misleading. Street Fighter Anniversary Collection released with SF III: 3rd Strike on both PS2 and Xbox, where it sold a lot more. Maybe that is why people objected so much to your sales numbers. I love your vids and I remember SF III: 3rd Strike not receiving the love it deserved. Tekken, Dead or Alive 2, and Soul Calibur were all the rage back then. Hell, the Alpha/Zero series outsold SF III due to being more readily available on consoles. And, while I think Alex is a great character, he certainly was no Ryu/Ken/Chun Li. If you ask me, it was the Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara moment that made more people sit up and take notice on SF III. Until then, Street Fighter III was only relevant to fanboys like me. You’re spot on.

[@TheDemonking82]

I have owned street fighter 3 on Dreamcast, Xbox, ps2,3,4 and hopefully soon on steam. I consider this game to be one of the most complete and balanced fighters out there.

[@mangoesdarkside1999]

Used to love playing Street fighter 2 in my local kebab shop back in the day and as for Street fighter 3 nobody was playing it as the arcades were dead and we were rocking PlayStations or Nintendo 64 (64 basically to play GoldenEye)

[@pjthomas9849]

Your vids and your research is golden. There's more of us that love your vids than nitpick. The nitpickers dont deserve your attention. ❤#YourreAwesomeToMe 👍🏿

[@sachaallari592]

In the 90's we had 2 Arcades where I lived in Harrow on the hill back in those days, Debenhams Arcade and The Edge in St Georges Center. I'm 44 now and work in the games industry. Street Fighter 3 NEVER graced the arcade in Harrow in either arcade. Alpha 3 and Alpha 3 2 were in our arcades. Our main showcase fighting games were X Men v Capcom and Tekken 3. Now the only reason I was aware of Street Fighter 3's existence was because a good friend of mine said that he played in in Japan. This story of my mate playing it became a myth and legend and I forgot about the game. Because I was never actively looking for the game I never saw it in London's SEGA World in Troccodero. Fast forward to 2005, I was working in SEGA QA where on lunchtime some colleagues would play SF3 3rd strike! This was my first exposure to the game. Clearly, I was not hardcore into my fighting games but I know a LOT of people that didn't know that Street Fighter 3 EVER came out!. Hell, I know people that were so confused when 4 came out that they would ask what happened to 3, These are adults in their 40s that are not hardcore fighting game fanatics so it kinda cements the point that 3 was not very popular on release. Speaking of 3 I'm playing it a lot on my Switch and it's great.

[@segaboy9894]

I was 18 was Dreamcast came out. Me and my crew split our time between SFIII Third Strike, Alpha 3, and Soul Calibur.

[@bruceleeds7988]

I bet any money if you asked your mates they would say Alpha 3 is better than 3rd Strike

[@segaboy9894]

@@bruceleeds7988 Alpha 2 is my favorite. Anyway, you might be right!

[@DefConprime28]

I am 42 and I'll never forget I think mortal Kombat was on like mortal Kombat 4 or 5 and I'm like whatever happened to Street fighter they tried to do that 3D game the alpha Series whatever happened to Street fighter why is there no Street fighter 3 and then one day it just showed up at our movie theaters arcade I was dumbfounded no fanfare no nothing and this is before they came to the consoles first and they would go straight to arcade one of the biggest franchises of all time had a sequel finally released as quietly received as a silent but deadly fart on a first date

[@marcgoesblindgaming2076]

Nobody even do Street fighter 3 existed at this time most of us have moved on to Tekken and I was still playing one of the 50 versions of Street fighter 2 LOL

[@beezusHrist]

I didn't know Street Fighter 3 even existed before like 2002... *edit* And I am seeing similar comments in the comment section so this was clearly Capcom's fault.

[@bruceleeds7988]

It was, basically Street Fighter fatigue was in full effect. By 1999 the most unpopular versions of SF were SF3 and SF1 😂

[@ckingch]

I heard Ryu's name spoke properly in SSF2 on the SNES 👀

[@bruceleeds7988]

I heard that too... But it sounded like garbage in that game 😂

[@laos85]

But Raiyu sounds fitting to his muscles

[@AcornElectron]

Street Fighter…. Yeeeaaaaaaaaah! Three ………………

[@rayphoenix8685]

I didn't play SF3 until 2007! I knew about it through GamePro magazine in 2000! Great video!

[@kaceejones2282]

Same here ik there had tb a Street Fighter 3 but didnt get to know about it in more recent years. Now that I have the SF 30th Anniversary Collection I can finally experience the whole of SF3.

[@christophercaudill16]

Gosh damn top hat. Whenever I think ur done with ur Brit bias stuff it still pops up...Dudley for real mate? U mean Dudley as in Dud? I love you bro and ur patriotism is a respectable trait of urs. Lol enough said my friend across the pond. I swear I believe most ur viewers are red white And blue Americans. I have 12 years military in 2 American branches being the Marine Corp and US Army. We have very different views in gaming but as said I do appreciate ur British perspective. Thank u

[@bruceleeds7988]

I think the point Top Hat was trying to make is Dudley is one of the most popular characters... In Street Fighter FOUR! no one played Three when it was released

[@crypticsailor]

lol this video is over analyzing to unnecessary degree and title is false. The reason it wasn't played is: it wasn't released on a home console at the time and thus not marketed in magazines. Not rocket science. Not to say I don't usually enjoy this channel.

[@bruceleeds7988]

Disagree, in magazines it was heavily promoted IT'S FINALLY HERE!! the problem was it wasn't as Good as SF Alpha 2, or X men vs SF. Think of SF3 as how people talk about SF5 or GG Strive "They Simplified the game" then you will understand why it didn't get played at the time.

[@ismalali]

I remember playing third strike in the arcades. I picked Ken. & his fireball timing was so different. & the leg sweep felt so different. After using an arcade stick at home.. I FEEL that I started to get the hang of playing more offensively in SF3 by wanting to jab forward. Instead of always being in a defensive crouch. I still don’t have the hang of SF3, but I feel if I played it longer.. I would enjoy this arcade stick jab forward/reward fighting style. But I can’t say that I have played this game enough to really say the I know how to play it because I’m still used to SF2

[@shenglongisback4688]

Lmao this is awesome comedy video 🤣🤣 Top stuff😊

[@ProdDeity]

Never went to Game Works in Seattle when it was announced, but the other arcades I frequented in the late 90's, Tekken 3 was a staple. Sometimes numerous cabs. I can honestly never seen a Street Fighter 3 can in the wild when it came out. First time I played it was on the SF Collection on the PS2.

[@damiancarlson9472]

Parry is forward, not down. And you’ve said Ryu wrong. And you failed to mention Ryu and Ken weren’t supposed to be in 3.

[@antoniohall1684]

I was a big SF fan and was upset that I could only play SF3 at our local bowling alley once or twice a month. And racked my little brain on why it wasn't on any of my consoles at the time.

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

Street Fighter 3 is a really overhype game but my fave will always be Alpha 3.

[@zakafx]

Same dude. I had the GBA version, but would play it at the arcade every weekend when I would stay at my grandma's on the weekends haha.

[@Fashunh8r]

Sweet!a I can never get enough STREET FIGHTER VIDS!!

[@urabusxrw04]

The wwf references is why i fell in love with this channel. No homo.

[@RainbowSlinky5]

I had thought that the reason sf3 was unsuccessful initially was because players were street fightered out due to an abundance of fighting games from capcom in a relatively short amount of time post sf2. But since you mentioned the fact that 3d graphics had taken the video game industry by storm I think that is probably the main reason it was overlooked as well.

[@s14tat]

I am one of the 80k buyers for all 3 sf3 games on the Dreamcast! Woohoo 🎉

[@MJRLHobbyStuff]

THGM I consider you a friend. And I want you to know, I support you. Salt just comes with the territory. But it’s your content, if you feel the need to defend it. I support it.

[@JB-tp6uj]

I was the biggest fan of the Street Fighter series and I played SF3 from day 1 in the arcades....and Top Hat gaming is absolutely correct. The game was incomplete and not well received and/or ignored by most, very few people cared about Alex, and it wasn't until 3rd Strike when the game was considered somewhat comparable to the more feature rich 2d fighters of the era, let alone the 3D fighters. This is coming from someone who loved SF3 and didn't care much for 3D button mashers. But even I wasn't blind to SF3's lack of success and that the gaming industry largely ignored it.

[@davesworld1972]

I never heard of street fighter 3 until around 2003 when some dude was selling knock offs of dreamcast games. You couldn't buy dreamcast games in most UK shops before Sega dropped it. It would be nice to own an original copy but now days the price is too expensive.

[@FhargaZ]

"Welcome stranger" or " I got a selection of good things on sale stranger" 😄

[@bearingcee]

I'm far from a casual FG player and I'll say this, everything you said was true. I not once saw a line at the arcade on the SFiii game back in the 90s. I overlooked it because of the roster and also played Alpha for the graphics at first. I didn't actually get into SF3 until I bought the 25th anniversary edition where 3 came in a bundle with a version of all sf2 roms.

[@bruceleeds7988]

5:59 "for some reason"? The characters in the Alpha series (1 and 2 in particular) were for the most part from SF1 and Final Fight (the "original" SF2, till executive decisions were made) or were based on established SF folklore, Charlie Nash for instance.

[@icey35]

It's pretty obvious most of the people disagreeing with the premise weren't actually around during the period in question. Lots of us boomers played sf2 and all its expansions to death (thousands of hours during high school), and there is no way you couldn't have noticed the contrast of how sf3 was just kind of DOA when it launched. No real buzz, no home port, and arcade gaming in general dying as fps and rts gaming began to take off. As a result, you weren't playing it and neither were your friends, even though you all loved sf2. It's not really a statement about the game being good or bad, but its just unarguable that an order of magnitude less people played the game when it came out compared to sf2. Fanboys are weird.

[@bruceleeds7988]

It's true, I played every version of SF I could get my hands on, right up to Capcom vs SNK 2. One could argue SNK has even less popular characters than SF3, but you could STILL get it quite easily in the UK. is was hard to get on Dreamcast, Impossible on PlayStation.

[@liublanka3925]

I remember reading gamepro how they were saying that there would be a sf3 and they went into how many extra frames of animation on a hadoken alone vs a cps1/2 version. Gill alone couldn’t of been in cps2 games his colors on his body were to advanced. We deserve a beautifully animated cps4 darkstalkers nuff of the sf5 crappola

[@IllmatikRebelTV]

Wow. I remember that article. That was the last issue I read before I started reading EGM

[@blob1588]

I’m promising that I’ll watch this to the end.

[@bruceleeds7988]

Ryu is a character in Ninja Gaiden. Ryu (pronounced RYE-YOO) is from Street Fighter 2 🤣

[@davidrivera414]

I always enjoyed the capcom 2d fighter games especially darkstalkers from my opinion it does not matter how people pronounce Ryu every one is individually different love your videos top hat gaming man 😀 👍👍👍

[@kevinrice4169]

I don't mind 3d fighting games but the older I get the more I favor 2d in general, whether it's capcom, snk or arc system works, I just love the sprite work, animations, and imo they aged better than a lot of the 3d games, even looking at the original playstation I feel guilty gear looks better than tekken, dead or alive and virtua fighter.

[@condescending28]

Facts here in the USA, Arcades was dying quickly during the late 90’s. As a Casual at the time, I never even heard of the game. I’m 40 btw. I never played it until the 30th Anniversary Collection. & I still dislike the Roster on there & do prefer SF Alpha’s 1-3 Rosters. But none the less all the SF III Games plays great & definitely wasn’t a pop culture hit like SF II was.

[@desdichado-007]

Can confirm. I'm closer to 50, but I remember seeing the first SF3 in arcades, although it was relatively lightly played compared to Soul Edge, Tekken and even Killer Instinct. But to be fair, arcades were on their last leg except as a boutique industry at party stores like Dave & Busters or amusement parks, so I think that was inevitable. But in general, people did not attach themselves to the characters, or think that the game as all that cool. I've still never seen Double Impact anywhere, and I've only played Third Strike because I bought it for my Dreamcast back in the early 2000s (when Dreamcasts were already old news.) I got several Dreamcast fighting games, including Marvel vs Capcom, Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolves and King of Fighters 98. The last two of those were definitely my favorites over the first two.

[@jhsrt985]

Your right bro nobody played it except the real arcade rats. I know me and my friend didn't BBC of the roster. They sucked. Only a few were cool and there was NO explanation as to why everyone disappeared like we were supposed to just accept it. Nope. I just stuck with xmen vs street fighter and mvc2 until way later when I was able to see how deep sf3 really is. Sf3 was definitely pretty tho even back then

[@bruceleeds7988]

Right, and even as you are appreciating SF3, you are talking about THIRD STRIKE not the other two versions of the game

[@jhsrt985]

@@bruceleeds7988 yea exactly Bc we didn't the other ones on console. I thought I was crazy back then I was like if this is 3rd strike wth happened to the first "2 strikes"

[@devinmccullough347]

Love this video! I think you are right on with your comments. I'm a big Street Fighter fan and have enjoyed SF3 on the Dreamcast, Arcade, PC, and PS4. However, it did not sell well and it did not make anywhere near the money that Street Fighter 2 did. If Street Fighter 3 was as popular as Street Fighter 2, more arcades would have opened up at that time to cash in on the popularity. It may have a solid fan base and be a tournament favorite among a core set of people, but that is nowhere near the majority of people who purchase games. As far as the name pronunciation goes, as long as people know who you are talking about it shouldn't matter. People pronounce words differently depending on their culture and region of the world. Anyways, thank you for the great video!

[@0.Kenshin]

I used to play this all the time at the video rental store. Problem was the CPS3 arcade was expensive to produce and they weren't as popular to buy because the return on investment to an arcade owner took a while. By the time I went to college the Dreamcast was out and plenty of friends and I continued to play the series on that system along with MvC2 and CvS2. I also used to pronounce Ryu the wrong way all the time until I finally heard the in game announcer say it in the VS series, no excuse for pronouncing his name incorrectly after that.

[@Ai-Saika]

lol I always felt u called Ryu "RAIYU" as a meme.

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

I used to play Street Fighter III alot in the arcades but I was the only one playing it in my arcade and I always use Ryu

[@misteuraxe691]

i remember playing sf3 in the arcades back in the day, finishing the game with 1 credit only playing as chun-li. all i did was using the spinning round kick lol

[@Brazdon83]

Street fighter 3 is the odd duck of the street fighter games, I didn't even get a chance to play it until a decade after it was out. Street Fighter 2 was at every laundromat from the 90's to 2000.

[@Oysterblade84]

I pronounce it as ''Rye-you'' too. Never did understand why everybody else pronounces his name as ''Riy-you''.

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

Tekken was the most popular fighter in the mid 90s-2005

[@jacksmith4460]

I'm 43, I think I saw 1 SF3 arcade cabinet, but hundreds of Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Killer Instinct, Samurai Showdown, ...I also saw thousands of SF 2 cabinets in the early 90's, and I have SF3 Third Strike as my 2nd Favourite fighting game all time I was 11 or 12, when World warrior came out, I played SF2 Turbo and Super SF2 more than any other cabinet ever I did not play SF3 until 2024 when I bought 30th anni collection, and I played Ex + Alpha and CvS2 back in the day so its not like I gave up on SF games. I adore SF3 Third strike today and I am so happy I bought it, but It was not popular and I actually remember it being a Meme in Europe and north America. It was seen in just about every publication/games show as a failure, so large it was a bit of a joke. as for die hard CvS2 smokes SF3 ...every iteration, people can disagree, but its a better game than SF 3 ever was, and SF 3 is the 2nd best fighting game I have ever played. I wonder how many of these folks leaving these comments are over the age of 30, lool, like if you are under 35 ...you did not live through it so anyone under 35, ...their opinion on the popularity of SF3 at its release are 2nd hand ..at best (without a source for sales that reads in the millions)

[@chrisburrows9021]

Theres an official SFIV documentary that goes over why Capcom believe SFIII didnt take off. They even put test cabinets out in Japan without Ken and Ryu in the roster. It bombed. But they introduced Ken, Ryu and it picked up a little but not massively. But they didnt give up and kept fine tuning it until it was one of the most balanced fighting games there is. However there was then the availabilty issue on consoles. The roster looks so much better now theyve introduced some of the characters into SFV and its not as much the odd one out. But please Capcom release the best version of it without the Arcade difficulty cos im in my forties and my reflexes are slowing down haha

[@AcornElectron]

Great twitch stream last night! I’d just got tired of Street fighter iterations by the time III finally came out. Then the new characters were mainly meh. IMO. As always, keep up the good work fella and stay safe.

[@sajmeister]

LOVE these videos you make, you're a hero! It is a shame that these IDIOTS assume that everything is directed at them! HONESTLY! Also, talking of name pronunciation... the first half of my name Saj is either said like "Sarge" or like Sad (without the D replaced with J)... I will answer to both

[@mariocosti4698]

I was a huge fan of SF2 but I only ever played SF3 once in arcades around 2001. I don't recall the game receiving much fanfare on its release although there were so many SF games and fighting games throughout the 90s that it would have been easy to miss.

[@kaceejones2282]

The overall design of the SF3 arcade cab was too bland. It wasnt so eye catching.

[@snake_eagle]

I like documentaries...✌👽👍

[@Lupo32]

It was a commercial failure yet A cult classic.

[@heartbreakkid2]

This is awesome thank you top hat

[@bruceleeds7988]

Rye Yoo I can forgive but "DIEGO"? 😂😂

[@ctownsoldier]

I think something too is a lot of people didn't buy SF3 retail for their DC like me, and I bought the anniversary collection to play SF 3. SF3 online is very active, maybe as active as SF 5 in ranked match in any platform I've tried. A lot more people are likely aware to this masterpiece. That's probably why you got so many views.

[@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto]

The Street Fighter 3 series is my favorite game series of all time! Next to Gears Of War 😏

[@KawaiiMiri]

There weren't many areas in US that had access to a street fighter III arcade. I did see a small crowd around it one time but in fairness world heroes 1, 2 and jet had more arcade time near me. After 95 the alphas were the next thing but mainly home ports. Even after 3rd impact it wasn't till 15th anniversary that I was able to have it. It was actually easier to find kof 97, 98 than sf3. Xmen:cota marvel superheroes among others cross ups arcades were easier to find.

[@PhillipP93]

I always thought you were just messing with the viewers by saying RAI-YOO, I've heard people call him that all my life, so at this point, it doesn't bother me. I didn't think people would get that mad at it, lol.

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I never saw this in arcades or even heard about it till I found it on mame.

[@bruceleeds7988]

I played the arcade version ONCE at an Amusement Arcade (mostly fruit machines, over 18's only, I was fifteen. I'm pretty sure they only let me play on the fighting games cause that's the only way they made money on them lol). I gotta say, I was extremely unimpressed at the time particularly with the small roster and the unfamiliarity. The same goes for Marvel Vs Capcom 1.

[@krissymarklewis1793]

@@bruceleeds7988 I agree, it looks nice for a 2d fighting game but that's about it.

[@jasondavis2537]

It would be cool if you did an episode on the different releases for the anniversaries surrounding Street Fighter. Also another good video idea would be the timeline between 3rd strike in Street Fighter 4. You could cover things like ggpo and just a fighting scene as a whole. Lots of things changed in the long period of time between 3rd Strike and Street Fighter 4 that helped more people learn to love Street Fighter 3. Also the evolution fighting tournament has strong ties with the street fighter games

[@pjthomas9849]

By the time Super SF II Turbo came out, SF lost the crown. When Tekken Tag came out SF wasnt the apex pvp fighter. Maybe not even Top3

[@maguszero8565]

miss this game back in arcade days few arcades has sf3 in the arcades in midwest back in the day the only home system that had this was dreamcast yrs after it was out in arcades. I remember back in 97-98 in arcades

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. You should do a video on Ultra Street Fighter IV.

[@Darqueness]

Honestly if you really specifically consider the release of New Generation this argument holds even more water. I never really touched SF3 myself and all of my friends that did didn't get into it till late 2nd Impact to early 3rd Strike. So still as far as few people playing the original release definitely sounds about right to me. And most that I know of that did, like you said, didn't get into it till way later.

[@csiyaoe]

This was my favorite street fighter on Dreamcast and it was my last one 😂

[@MykeondaMic]

lmao dude tore up these sweaty weebs, anyone who was anyone never went to an arcade, and instead we sat there playing super mario 64 and smash bros. and that is the reason why I (a kid who beat street fighter 2 on his snes) am just now in 2021 finding out street fighter 3 even existed, and that is was such an amazing game. funny how butthurt these kids get when numerous times you praise the game for its gameplay

[@alanlee67]

I think the biggest factor to sf3s initial failure was similar to mk3. They axed most of the previous roster. This alienated fans. I think it's simple as that. I was 12 when it came out, it looked amazing to us at the time. We just couldn't get down with the new roster.

[@kevingregory5579]

No one played if because of the roster. It was shocking when it came out and had an entirely different roster,save ken,ryu,chun li

[@mechajintsu]

I started playing this game way back in 2020. Thats How time less this game is.

[@thadexverse2259]

Does it really matter which is better They're all games and we all enjoy playing them........... sheesh ☹️ Sorry man about the harsh comments Some people can get really passionate about what they love

[@jhsrt985]

I'm not justifying anything but with the whole Ryu thing....well we always said "Ryeyu" from sf1 until like 2000 then alot of us felt silly learning that everyone else says "reeyu" it was, like a big thing or whatever. So yes they are being pretentious to you but I'm sure a few think they're actually trying to help peoplenot look like a fool as they felt they looked at one time. Particularly with names, we all say them the same across all states even with heavy accent changes I think that's also a factor. I'm sure that's agg I hope all this sheds some extra light on that bs lolll

[@bruceleeds7988]

I say Rye Yuu to this day, it symbolises how long I have been a fan. They should be thankful I have stopped saying "Dhal-ism" 😂😂

[@jhsrt985]

@@bruceleeds7988 🤣🤣not mad at that at all dude

[@lejuansmith6714]

Bro I love your content

[@grievouserror6726]

Love Alex’s original look and attitude, but I get he’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

[@mrhashcon78]

I love this channel.. but please play the game first because we don't do a parry by only pressing "down" as you mentioned at 10:39

[@bruceleeds7988]

You do for low parried 😂😂

[@redcomet7696]

*I was PRAYING SF 6 would be 2D. Oh well* 😅

[@jackvalentine5784]

This game was on the Dreamcast

[@natsume-hime2473]

A famously failed platform that did so badly it drove SEGA out of the home gaming hardware market.

[@58648798]

Ppl saying that sf3 was popular in the 90s are either dillusional or are born in the 90s The cps3 cabinet was hard to find in the arcades except in japan

[@rouju]

Dudley lucky he maintains his awesomeness, Sean my favorite is butchered in Third Impact ha ha. Oh, street Fighter III always be my favorite in all SF franchise due to the advance and hard to master gameplay ha ha. But yeah, different stroke for different folk

[@registereduser]

All aboard the (A)lex Express!

[@devlinmcbane7255]

People are a bunch of followers… everyone wanted 3d because it was the shiny new thing, even though the current 3d titles at the time where potato asf. Everyone wanted popular games regardless of gameplay, and now we have microtransactions because the corpos found out their consumer base was a bunch of peanut brained consumers. Thanks for the vid.

[@devlinmcbane7255]

I pronounce it like you… as REEEEEEEEOOOOOO sounds ree ree…

[@devlinmcbane7255]

Yeah that problem they have with distancing themselves from the ‘we’ in the title is pure egotistical narcissistism, these kind of derps do that because they know being morons like that will get them attention and drama, just got to ignore those fools.

[@adventuretaco7140]

Why you gotta pick on sf3? …. I’m crying rn

[@jhsrt985]

Finally 🥰🥰🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩🤩🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@adventuretaco7140]

Dawwwwwg I’m so mad YALL hating on 3s … IT AINT RIGHT!

[@mxed1916]

LOL. I played Street Fighter 3 all the time back then, and even I acknowledge that NOBODY knew SF3 even existed lmao. I shit you not, when I bought SF4 for the 360 my brother was blown the fuck out because he didn't knew there was a third game in the series.

[@kaceejones2282]

Same man ik back then that SF4 came out so that means there has tb a SF3 right. But I couldnt find the game any where in stores from where Im from. So didnt played SF3 as a kid until that is the SF 30th Anniversary Collection.

[@kaceejones2282]

The only SF games I owned were SF2 World Warrior on the Capcom Classic Collection Vol 1 on PS2 SFA3 on PSP then SF4 and SFxT and now SF5.

[@Octo4533]

this video was incrdeibly entertaining, im not going to lie i get the frustration against losers on the internet but a fraction of the video being dedicated to ragging on commenters feels a little childish if im honest.. it takes away from the actual video in my opinion

[@RoseEclipz]

XD ITS MCDONALDS NOT MACDONALDS, RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE. XD

[@jackvalentine5784]

This game is still played till this day what are you talking about? This game was in heavy rotation in tournaments and has a strong fan base running strong till now.

[@felix52282]

Well most of us who get laid and have lives dont really think about street fighter 3. This is who he is basically talking about. The average guy. That's who he was targeting.

[@7ten]

Um no. You're talking about 3rd Strike. A completely different game. Don't tell me you just confused SF III with 3rd Strike...

[@natsume-hime2473]

The tournament community is a tiny niche and SF III was a commercial flop, especially outside of Japan. A small dedicated fan base is not the same as a game being mainstream successful. The SF III series only got more popular long after the fact.

[@hypewrecker8767]

Overlooked? Street Fighter 3 is literally the most overrated Street Fighter series many people said it's their favorite Street Fighter game.

[@bruceleeds7988]

Yeah but they say that post 2005 after they saw the Daigo Parry. And they only play 3rd Strike not the others. The ones who played the games on release will tell you 2nd Impact is better.

[@hypewrecker8767]

@@bruceleeds7988 I always hear 3rd Strike the best fighting game ever.