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Street Fighter III - What Happened?

Matt McMuscles

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SF3 3rd Strike Tribute Animation By: Street Fighter 3 : 3rd Strike tribute
Street Fighter An Oral History By Matt Leaone: https://www.polygon.com/2020/7/7/2127...
Edited By: Twitter: Guarascia
SkeleMatt Art By: Twitter: Krooked_Glasses
Intro By: 2manysnacks and Twitter: LittleVMills

Music List:
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Menu
Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact - Sao Paulo
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Twilight (Ibuki's Theme)
Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact - Crowded Street (Action Movie Edit)
Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact - Good Fighter (Ryu Stage)
Mobb Deep - Dirty New Yorker (Instrumental)
Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact - Bottoms Up (Hugo Stage)
Street Fighter III: New Generation - Jazzy NYC (Street Edit)
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Spunky (Makoto's Stage)
Street Fighter III: New Generation - Spirits ~Ending 2~
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Let's Get It On (Player Select Remix)

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20 Comments

@MattMcMuscles Creator 4 years ago (edited) Pinned

Need more fighting game What Happeneds? Then check out Street Fighter The Movie The GAME ➤ https://youtu.be/3o2ZQTanCRY

@NitroNEXT 4 years ago

What's interesting about the arcade situation is that, as a kid, I never would have been introduced to games like Tekken 3 had it not been for the arcade. I remember playing it in an arcade then rushing to the game store afterwards to buy a PS1 copy.

@GreatFox42 4 years ago (edited)

I feel bad for a lot of sprite-based games in the later half of the 90s. Being outshined by the appealing new third dimension, right as sprites were hitting their peak. I don't mean to disrespect those early 3d games, and I'm usually not the kind of person to laud which "aged better" or not.

I'm just sad about it because I simply love spritework and it would take almost two decades for sprites to make a comeback in the gaming scene. We missed out on what could have been the pinnacle of early spriting until the indie scene brought them back.

@enzo991_ 4 years ago

As much as I adore SFIII, I still lament the loss of that CPSIII Darkstalkers sequel. Darkstalkers' animations would've looked insane on that hardware.

@snippyjay5721 4 years ago

Jeez the background art on new generation is crazy. I know Tekken 3 and VF3 looked pretty sharp, but SFIII has aged superbly in comparison

@mann-nova9392 4 years ago

SF3 is just so cool. All of the new things it tried, the music, the graphics, even those "freaks", it was all so good and I think it really set it apart from the rest of the series.

@Mr.CheckYourself 4 years ago

Street Fighter III was very different but still enjoyed the game we should have gotten a animated movie of Street Fighter III.

@lurkerlp 1 year ago

I cannot believe that the street fighter game that could have been one of the worst turned out to literally be the best. Third Strike is so good man.

@Borderlines 4 years ago

Just looking at 3rd Strike's animations, I cannot believe this game is soo damn old. It looks so modern and beautiful

@Kramdaddy 4 years ago (edited)

I'm not gonna lie, I was one of those people who scoffed at SFIII at the arcade when it came out. It was a different era at the arcades and all of my friends, myself included, were preoccupied with the latest trend of 3D games: Tekkens, Dead or Alive, Cruisin' World, etc. It was a crazy time seeing the new technology, as they would roll out something insane every month, and Street Fighter was just old hat.

Ironically, these days I use SFIII and Mark of the Wolves as my go-to gold standard for designing pixel art. Those teams were godly.

@jignat 4 years ago

This is probably one of the most bittersweet "What happen" episodes ever.

@EasyCure0 4 years ago

You know, as a kid with little too no internet at the time of SF3... I honestly thought it was a myth.

I remember hearing about it in Nintendo Power or GamePro magazines at some point, but never saw it in the wild. I had older cousins tell me I was wrong, and that SF Alpha was actually SF3.

Since I didn't even end up getting a playstation, I didn't really follow the news if what games were coming for them, so after a while I genuinely believed them. I just thought oh maybe the article I read was like an early working title, because of COURSE you'd follow up with SF2 with SF3.

@JerryM2345 4 years ago

I remember these times.
I was shocked at how no one liked such a bad ass and beautifully fluent fighting game such as Street Fighter III.
Side by side with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 at an arcade, people were playing UMK 3 more over it.

@GenerationWest 4 years ago

With a brand new year, we have a brand new What Happened.
Street Fighter III started out as underperformer, but over time, with the additions of Chun-Li (that's always important), seeing what the game can do, and that sweet character art by Artgerm in 2011, now everyone will say... "Why don't they make Street Fighter like this again?"

@ratchetxtreme6591 4 years ago

Street Fighter 3 has always been in this state of mind for me where I don’t hear too much about it compared to the other entries of the franchise, so I’m curious to see what it’s development history would be like .

@DamianGshow 1 year ago (edited)

0:45 "BEATS IN MY HEAD"

@kaptenkladdkaka8769 4 years ago

We need a What Happened for King of Fighters XIII. Explain to people why it played a big part in the downfall of the company and how the graphics were actually achieved.

@Infinifry55 4 years ago

Can't wait for a "Brutal Legend" episode of what happened!

@SirCharles. 4 years ago

SF3 is definitely my favorite art style/aesthetic design of the series so far

@LuisOrtiz-xo5kc 4 years ago

I remember when Street Fighter II came out in 1991, there was a crowd around the arcade units, and you had to wait hours to play. When Street Fighter III came out, you could see at most one person playing. And those were the good days, as most of the time no one inserted a coin into the arcade unit. Everyone else was playing Tekken, Rival Schools, or King of Fighters 97.