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
My brother used to beat me up in SF4 and practice combos on me, surprisingly it was fun still even though I would lose a lot and got me into Street Fighter
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!!
"You have fists of GOD!" "That's Great! Super! EXCELLENT!!" "Hey, is there somebody who can stop this fighting machine?" "Sharpen your fangs, it's not the end!"
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.
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 😮
@@my-pop-culture Well I also specifically mentioned MVC since if someone literally played MVC back in the day then looked into The Alpha Games they would notice that they matched since they used the same Art Styles, Sprites, and many of the same Moves for the shared Characters in both.
@@my-pop-culture Those didn't directly have sprites ripped from their Games to be used for MVC, outside of Morrigan's Sprite from Darkstalkers which was literally used for EVERY Darkstalkers Crossover back then and CVS came after the MVC Series was a thing.
@@TheCJRhodes Yeah I'm not denying that Capcom didn't oversaturate their own Fighting Game Market during that era, just that if someone looked at The Street Fighter Alpha Series or The MVC Series Games at the time they would notice that they match each other because of the similar Art Styles, Mechanics, and Reused Assets making it so that fans of either one Series would easily be drawn to the other because of the similarities 😅
@@my-pop-culture Okay clearly you're not even reading these anymore and just want to list Random Capcom Fighters so have fun with that......Also you missed Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, Red Earth, and most importantly Capcom Fighting Evolution of all things if you really wanted to bring up the oversaturation of Capcom Fighters at the time.
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!
i still listen to the soundtrack of that game- it's one the soundtracks i put on occasionally when i feel like drawing for a couple of hours. It is indeed underrated.
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.
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.
It's amazing that Alpha 3 was completely broken in a lot of ways (good or bad) but while Alpha 2 was beloved in NA and the world, Alpha 3 was more popular in Japan. Even Daigo loved it due to the guard gauge. Japan really liked broken but fun stuff, hence why you see quite a few them played a lot of "kusoge" back in the day.
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.
This was the first major fighting game I really sat down and learned how to play. It really helped ease me into street fighter and fighting games in general, after that I went back and played some of the older titles from the arcades, then just took off with street fighter 4, but this game will always have a special place in my heart and that announcer lives rent free in my brain. The sure amount of content the home ports have should be the golden standard for fighting games and I really haven't seen anyone put this much effort and love into a game like this in such a long time, not since the classic street fighter 2's at least, what can I say, I love it all
Street Fighter 2 at the arcades was my jam when i was a kid but when i was a teen in high school, SFA3 was EVERYTHING!!! i can no express how much i loved this game. After this game, no other SF had as many single player content, until SF6.
Alpha 3 was the start of me getting serious about fighting Games. Learning Target Combos, Secret Character Techs, Figuring Out Counterpicks for the Arcade. Alpha 3 on the PS1 brought me the confidence to start throwing down in arcades. Not just becoming a tournament champ for Alpha 3, but Soul Calibur and Tekken 3 as well. A-ISM Ryu was my bread and butter; and nothing was sweeter than getting a full damage Shin Shoryuken to melt health bars.
Alpha 3 Upper on GBA was my first SF and probably what got me into fighting games in the first place. It missed a lot of features (and was outright broken, or at least my copy) but man, those graphics, that roster, the gameplay variety.
My first Street Fighter game PSX version, made me completely fall in love with the franchise, especially Akuma after unlocking Shin Akuma, made me feel like I just unlocked cheat mode. Ahh sweet memories
Back in the days when unlocking characters was special like akuma before he became a dlc character in steet fighter 5 and 6 that's why alpha 3 is the greatest of all time take that haters and go pay for your dlc characters!
I am loving your SF Legacy episodes! As a SF gamer since World Warrior, this brings so much nostalgia. It’s like watching a docuseries on your favorite game. Thank you Max for sharing all these awesome chronological stories! Perfect timing before SF 6 debuts.
Alpha 3 is what made me fall in love with SF altogether. So definitely in my top five Street Fighter games. I spent hours doing dramatic battles, world tour, boss mode, just everything. I love that game so much. It also had some of the best character themes in SF.
A3 gets overshadowed a lot in the discustions of games by A2. But I think A3 was a good game. Introduced the fatal/crush counter system, guard bars and had some fun risk reward with Alpha counters. And the isums were fun. Not to mention the home version many many modes including World tour. I'm glad it's coming back into talks and light. Also Brave or Grave is one of the BEST Final Bison songs in the series.
I actually didn’t know world tour was from the alpha series. When the new version of it was shown off for SF6 I thought it was a completely new idea that they’d never experimented with before for the new game. I’m glad they brought it back and expanded on it and I think ultimately it’s a big reason why 6 is gonna be so successful. Casual players want single player content and this new version of world tour along with the other fun modes like extreme battle gives people that in spades.
@@skurinski Yeah. What was said. In the NA's it A2 cause of a lot of misconception and truths around A3. The big one being V-ism and infinites. It's bigger in Japan for sure. I just miss this level of experimentation too. So many modes, so many ideas.
after 2 turbo, this is my favorite Street fighter game of all of them, the world tour mode and all the upgrades you can put on a character makes the game crazy fun and very close to the vs games
I remember the day me and my brother ordered this masterpiece. We were kids, just came back with our parents from vacation and our neighbors told us they have a package that belongs to us (the postman knew that when we aren't home he can give the mail to them). We went to sleep and played it when we woke up. It was the first time we've spend like 8h in front of the TV. All the characters, checking their super combos, getting through the World Tour mode. It was a total blast! One of the best fighting games of all time.
The game that make me love the series, i can't even count the hours i passed triying World Tour in PSone and the story of arcade mode was amazing (to the series standard)
Bless the developer who came up with Rainbow Mika's design. One of the most gorgeous Street Fighter waifus 🥰 Edit: Can we have the Dolls being playable again? I love Juli ☺️ Love her theme in Alpha/Zero 3
I had NEVER heard of Hyper Street Fighter Alpha before and now I'm insanely curious. And I'm someone who's such a geek for the series I know things like the Amiga versions, Ken Sei Mogura (Whack-a-Mole), the Mazi unlock code in Alpha 3...
I've been sending request to share light on this for months with various youtubers, stumble upon it years ago with my copy of Zero anthology (jap version) and was blown away by the amount of content exclusive in it, you got exclusive OST too made for specific characters battle, uniques moves and supers + edition select ! This allow you to choose any variation of Ryu for exemple his alpha 1 version against alpha 3 Sagat! CAPCOM buried this amazing version behind an obscure button combination on the main menu AFTER you beat every arcade mode once, the amount of work they put for this mode is truly a love letter for the fans, what even more shocking : it's not even featured on the damn game box!
Me too yet max likes alpha 2 more than 3 which makes no sense and he worships third strike yet alpha 3 has the better roster and game modes what the hell is wrong with max maybe he needs to play alpha 3 max to get him out of his coma!
@@daviddennie4086 hey, 3rd strike is great and in the video man himself explains why he likes Alpha 2, they're not bad games and as always in the end it's all just personal preference But i do agree that alpha 3 has the better roster
@@daviddennie4086 alpha 2 is more casual friendly and when it comes to the alpha series max is admittedly a casual. In alpha 2 you can literally mash buttons in a custom combo and do massive damage, alpha 3 wasn’t like that. Most of the people who played alpha 3 as a casual didn’t even know what the isms where since they always just chose Aism because it’s the default ism to choose.
Before Alpha 3, I was in love with Alpha 2 Gold. It was just perfect 😍 When I started playing Alpha 3,.. 😳...😍🥰 The love for the game grew. I literally played with all the characters, including my all time favorite, Sagat. I was just playing it damn near every day. The classic will never die 😊 PERFECT FOR WORDS!!
Alpha 3 was the pinnacle of SF when it came out! I remember it was all I played whenever I got home from school as a kid. Me and my friends would spend hours going back and forth. True classic. You have to have grow up playing SF to really appreciate Alpha 3.
These are my favorite videos Max does. He breaks down the history of the games, shares his personal experiences and goes in depth about the mechanics. I was always a casual button masher in fighting games but these videos convinced me to get an arcade stick and put effort into learning the mechanics of different games. Shoutout to you Max.
You Got my older brother and My Uncle chillin the the garage, stale cojitas smoke in the air, Playing Evil Ryu and Shin Akuma. Watching them clash with the raging demon shaped me as a small child.
Alpha 3 is criminally underrated game in the whole series and it pains me so much. I wish it had the following SF3 has... Probably my most played game of all time and I've played Bethesda and other RPGs... Also A-ISM best ism for variety of supers and options. Something that never cameback to the game series ever again...
Alpha 3 is my most played. I wanted to play pro back in those days. I was so good. Lol nowadays i cant really play anymore. I still enjoy watching people play.
Pros like the variety so in their minds SF 3rd impact or Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter are better. But the reality is that SFA3 had 1,6 mil sales, SF3 3rd impact had 200k sales and MSHvsSF had 300k sales. There is no question of popularity.
This is one of the greatest series of videos max has ever done on the channel. Him going through the history of this franchise is a lot of fun to watch and I’m learning a lot of stuff about the old games that I never knew. I didn’t know the alpha games had a world tour mode, I thought that was a new thing for 6
Can we get alpha 3 max on the switch please I'm begging you Capcom just stop giving us the standard arcade version which doesn't have the roster like alpha 3 max does!
8:50 Other than the price tag, this is the best way to play SFA3 without having to deal with the Memory Card dilemma on your arcade stick. The PlayStation has memory card slots on the console, while Sega Saturn has system memory backed up by whatever CR2032 battery you inserted into the console. The Dreamcast, however, has memory card slots on the controller, so loading and saving your high scores and settings will be a pain in the neck unless you have a Dreamcast arcade stick with a built-in memory card slot.
Street Fighter Alpha 3, Tekken 3, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, The King Of Fighters 98 and Winning Eleven 4.. i have consistently played these games in PS1 Era with my brother. Now we both near our 40s and waiting for the another golden age of fighting games. KOF 15 already released, SF6 will follow in few days, Mortal Kombat 1 and Tekken 8 on the horizon.
When Alpha 3 came to the arcade it was mind blowing. Seeing that giant Psycho Crusher on screen was like wtf. When it first came out people really didn't mess around with v-ism and mostly just used a-ism.
Side bar: I love watching u do these legacy series as a new game is being released. I swear these get me so amped for the upcoming game. Salute 2u Max. For YEARS, I've been watching you do ur thing in this space of Fighting Games, and you just keep getting better. 👊🏾💢🎮
I was literally playing Alpha 3 Max when this video popped up. Hands down, one of my top SF games. I'd love to see it get ported to consoles or in a compilation game.
Back then, characters and content wise, it was the dream for SF fans ! The interactions between characters, some based on the Street Fighter the movie were everything we didn't know we needed! And KOF was actually the alternative... What a year it was ! 🎉
SFA3 has one of the best: announcers, drawings, gameplay, history and of course, the OST is perfect! Personally I use Alpha 3 OST to go to the gym, and it gives me energy to go forward everyday. Love SFA3 so much
I haven't played the Dreamcast version yet, but I heard that it has a bunch of changes/inaccuracies to it (in fact, it's said that Alpha 3 Upper is based on that version). There's just a bunch of weird things about that port(s) that I want to investigate at some point. Capcom apparently released DLC "Master" characters as bosses to fight with World Tour characters and Matching Service apparently has an edit mode (that made it into the PSP version-it truly has darn near everything) that lets you basically skip the World Tour stuff and customize a character from the get-go with the ism+s you have.
'Alpha 3' on the PSP was the only 'Alpha' I ever got to play. I used to read all the '90s video game magazines for glimpses at stuff like the 'Street Fighter Alpha' series.
So here's what I think is a good question to ask: Why was Alpha 3 Max never ported to other platforms? It bugs my mind that it's a PSP only release to this day. They could have made a port of it for the 30th Anniversary Collection. Huge missed opportunity.
Man, I remember spending so many hours playing SFA3 on my playstation 1 back in the day. The gameplay, the roster, the soundtrack was just the greatest.
I recall Alpha 3 when I had picked up the Alpha Collection for the PS2 (which had both the original Alpha 3 and if you input a button before selecting Alpha 3, the version that did have the other Street Fighter 2 characters as well as Juli, Juni, and Evil Ryu). Both my boyfriend Tank and I would often mess around on that version, particularly the Dramatic Battle mode of the game to see how well we worked together. This is also the game where I discovered the character I would play the most often in Street Fighter, Cammy, despite her appearing in 2 beforehand. I have quite a few memories of Alpha 3 and I wish I was able to help a friend with his run of the world tour mode of Alpha 3, but I didn't have a chance to.
Alpha 3 is my favorite Street Fighter. I have nostalgia for every aspect of it, the soundtrack, the sound effects, the artwork, World Tour mode, everything. I remember having an old magazine (I think it was PSM) that had tips and tricks and a breakdown for every character's move list and I read it until the pages ripped, and that was before I even had the actual game
Alpha 3 was neat, but hard as hell. I loved the selection of characters, as you got cammy and soldiers that were under her command when under the control of Shadow Law. You had Cody from Final Fight in a prison outfit, and the roster is just so big. I still own the psp version, which as you said is perhaps the best version of alpha 3.
The best Fei long was in Alpha 3 and made me a fan of the character dumping all the shotos. Also I do understand the love for ALpha 2 with the art, great backgrounds, Music. Just that my favorite character and roster expansion and feature rich content on alpha 3 for single player sold me
Alpha 3 max holds a special place in my heart and my first introduction to the fighting games as a whole I remember my dad bought it and would play it from time to time and he taught me “quarter circle square” as he called it to throw hadokens
Alpha 3 was my second street fighter but was the longest i spent with any fighting game. "Go for broke" was my high school yearbook quote. Also until I joined the fgc in 2010, I thought Alpha 3 was actually the third game in the whole series. So i thought it was sfi,sfii, sfaiii, sfiv.😅 That's why everytime I see a sfiii doc and they mention how poor marketing/traction was, I believe it. I love(d) street fighter and had no clue.😂
My fav SF! Its so beautiful visually and have so much in it! The art style,menus,the atmosphere of the game, the characters, battle effects, just great! Played PS1 version but i played the DC version a lot more!! What a game! Funny thing is that this one is Daigo's fav SF!
Alpha 3 is the first street fighter I ever played. For that reason it’s very special to me and to this day it’s one of if not my favourite of the franchise
The street fighter Alpha series was the one I played the most during my childhood. The visuals and presentation got me really into it; Lot memories and nostalgia.
I still argue that Alpha 3 MAX has the best roster of any Street Fighter. If you could break the laws of time and space to back-port Juri, Poison, and Makoto into it, it would honestly have more or less every character I care about.
This man is literally where I get my information about fighting games and the one who introduced me to how they work and the lingo that coincide with the actions and various mechanics of fighting games. Much love DOODS!
I want to tell everybody some pretty good news! As it turns out, *_emulating multiplayer for Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX is fairly easy nowadays!_* Steps: 1. Use the emulator PPSSPP. Open it twice. 2. In Settings > Networking, scroll down to "Change PRO ad hoc server IP address (something something obvious)" and change it to "localhost". Do this for both windows. 3. Randomize the MAC Address for both windows. (Might not be necessary but safety first) 4. Set the controls for each. 5. Open up the game and go to the multiplayer menu. From there it should be incredibly easy to understand the next steps! I didn't touch on some things, like how you might want to mute one of the windows or want frameskipping on 1 for both emulators, but these are things that might be different depending on PC specs and so on. Other than that, playing the game multiplayer (emulator-wise) is very nice! I played it recently with my little brother, we had a great time.
