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Street Fighter Alpha 3

Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series. It features a complete gameplay overhaul with the addition of three selectable fighting styles, new stages, over seven new and…

80 29 June 1998

Street Fighter Alpha 3 is an arcade developed by Capcom Production Studio 1, released 29 June 1998 on Arcade.

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What Street Fighter Alpha 3 is

Street Fighter Alpha 3 is an arcade game developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and released in 1998. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Street Fighter Alpha 3, released as Street Fighter Zero 3 in Japan, Asia, South America, and Oceania, is a 1998 fighting game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the third and final installment in the Street Fighter Alpha series, and runs on the same CP System II hardware as previous Alpha games. Alpha 3 further expanded the playable fighter roster from Street Fighter Alpha 2 and added new features such as selectable fighting styles called "isms".
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Street Fighter series

Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the 118th of 243 entries we hold in the Street Fighter series. The next entry was Capcom Generations 5: Street Fighter Collection 2 in 1998. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Street Fighter II' Turbo at 100.

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How it was received

Street Fighter Alpha 3 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 83 votes.

What it launched against

Street Fighter Alpha 3 launched on 29 June 1998, within three weeks of Banjo-Kazooie, Colin McRae Rally, Heart of Darkness and Wetrix. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Banjo-Kazooie, Colin McRae Rally, Heart of Darkness, Wetrix.

Cheats and codes

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When did Street Fighter Alpha 3 come out?
Street Fighter Alpha 3 was released on 29 June 1998 for Arcade.

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