ALPHA 3 is actually INSANE | Street Fighter Alpha 3

Alpha 3 holds a special place in my heart! My older brother would beat me up to "practice combos" for a tournament at the local arcade, but i learned everything from that beat down. When my family visited our relatives in Japan in the early 2000s, our cousins were surprised we played Alpha 3. They were even more surprised how im beating them so much that they brought their friends over to see how good i am lol. God i miss those times

i can sit and listen to max talk about the history of fighting games for hours

The announcer of alpha 3 is so iconic to me that announcer's voice lives rent free in my mind. Also dope music tracks

Crazy story about Alpha 3. Me and my best friend Kenny used to play the hell out of this game in High School back in 1999 our eternal rivalry was my Fei Long vs his Ken (PS1 version of the game) and we had this epic match and i won and we planned on a rematch the next weekend..... and sadly....his life went sour and he wound up going to prison for 12 years that week and i though i would never see him again. Fast forward to 2018 and i found him on Facebook and we reconnected, hes totally rehabilitated now and has a family and a great life and we got to finish our rivalry, we met up and played the same copy of SFA3 on the same PS1 i had from back then and he finally beat me. Best game ever. Love you Kenny! you my dawg for life!!

Street Fight EX 3 changed Max. He is finally opening up and appreciating different things for what they are separate from what came before it. Games he reflexively disliked and dropped initially are getting a fair shake and he is realizing there are unique things to love deep down.

I feel like Max would be doing this even if it wasn't being filmed. Just in a room, by himself. Such dedication.

Probably my favorite fighting game announcer in this game. I still tell people who say they're going to do something, "GO FOR IT, MAN!"

Alpha 3 was pretty crazy since that was also around the time of Marvel VS. Capcom Games started getting really popular too and when folks wanted to try out "A Street Fighter" after playing an MVC many went to Alpha 3 for the similarities to Marvel. It also helped that many MVC Series Arcade Machines were also next to Alpha 3 😮

Alpha 3 is the coolest fighting game imo, the characters, the music, the UI, the announcer, the stages, everything is so cool and stylish as hell

As a casual fighting game fan? I cannot say enough good things about this mini series you’ve done here Max. It’s SOOOOO cool to revisit all these titles guided by an expert haha. Tremendous work!

Alpha 3 has some odd quirks - projectile damage dropping with distance traveled, the guard meter getting shorter as it breaks - but it still holds a special place in my heart. It wasn't the first fighting game I ever played, but it was the first fighting game that really made me sit up and take notice of the genre as a whole. Hearing that SF6 would bring back World Tour, expanded into a full Create-A-Character storyline, really put a smile on my face. Also, I'm glad I got the chance to help Max with this one (it was me and GG in chat providing info on World Tour Ism-Pluses and the hidden "Super Isms" in Hyper Alpha).

This is my favorite of the Alpha games, and next to 4 is my favorite Street Fighter. It's got so much crazy stuff in it, yet it still nails the SF feel. I have so many memories playing this, and loved the Upper version that came with SF Alpha Anthology. It still bugs me that the definitive version of the game is on PSP.

My first SF game! Fond memories playing this. Also, I'm gonna say it, Alpha 3's OST is heavily underrated.

SFA3 on the GBA was my childhood. Then I got into SFA3M on the PSP, great memories

Ryu and Bison's themes go HARD in this game. To this day I hear them on a weekly basis 🔥🔥🔥

Street Fighter Alpha 3 is my favourite Street Fighter game. Got many fond memories, skipping classes to head to the arcade to play it. I hope they would release a collection solely for Alpha 3 all the versions on one disc including the Max version from PSP. The music, art style just bliss. Still play Alpha 3 till this day. Picked up the OST on vinyl. 🔥 OST.

Alpha 3 was the main fighting game i played religiously in 1999 going into the 00s when it was ported to the PS1, several months i kept playing so much that i had blisters all over my thumbs from practicing special moves and combos to near frame perfection but now that I'm older don't have that much time to out into it anymore.

Alpha 3 was one of my first Street Fighter games I've played. In fact, I got into the Street Fighter series rather late. About a year before SF5 was released.

I've been waiting so many years for an Alpha 3 Max re-release on a common, modern-day system with net play. Would be the greatest thing ever.

alpha 3 on the ps1 was the fighting game I played the most by myself. I easily put in 100 hours playing world tour mode and playing against the CPU