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

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

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!!

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

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

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 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 😮

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!"

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Man, that song in background, I love it! Its really nice to hear Max talking about fighting games. Thank you so much!

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

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.

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

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.

4:12 😂, i have laughed like that in ages, thanks max

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.

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 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.

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.

Bro forgot the GBA port

The replay ability in these games is INSANE!!

This legacy series has been some of the best content you've put out!

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

Now this is MY favorite SF game ever made

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 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)

Alpha 3 is my favorite

The PSP Max version still kicks so much ass.

Your editor is on point with these intros!

The music in Alpha 3 is INCREDIBLE

Fun Fact: the VO for Alpha/Zero 3 lends his voice in the first fight of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Best announcer in the series

Alpha 3 on the PS1 was all i played for a solid year.

I still have my og copy of Saturn's Zero 3..... anybody want it????? *NOT!!!!!!!*

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.

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

Street fighter Alpha 3 is one of the craziest street fighters.

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.

It has so much content. The only thing that lacked: 4 Player Dramatic Battle

EXCUSE ME MAX, I am noticing a DISTINCT LACK of the crowned KING of Alpha 3 versions... The GBA version!

I'll say it. I think alpha 3 is the greatest Street Fighter game I ever played. I love it so much.

Im shocked that you didn't talk about SF Alpha 3 for the PS1. I have that copy and played it to death as a teenager.

My favorite street fighter

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 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 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.

World Tour was amazing! 😁

The Alpha series was and still is majestic! Best SF series in my opinion. 🔥🔥🔥

Alpha 3 still stands as the best Street Fighter game ever. To this day, elements are being borrowed and used for future games.

When Watching Maximillian, i change my resolution to 720p, and crank the saturation to max. its the closest thing i have to a time machine. Thanks for all these years Max.

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.

Alpha 3 is awesome, still tô date play extensively on my darksoft cps2

I love alpha 1 and 2 but 3 is probably my favorite.

The music to this game is awesome

Shout outs to the GBA version for looking as great as it does!

The editing in this video is immaculate👌🏾

"Hyper Street Fighter Alpha" needs an update add Ingrid and sf3 characters plus an arcade mode

Being able to customise your own character in world Tour was the best element of alpha 3

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.

I'll never understand why the most complete version of the game is only on a handheld and hasn't been ported to anything else in the 17 years since.

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

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

the only thing missing from Alpha 3 max psp for me its the Color palette editor the anthology had :( it was amazing

My favorite Street fighter ❤

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.

Damn, nice editing, the transitions SF transitions are incredible

Alpha 3: Every character is high tier if you're Ballsy enough.

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.

There should be an international museum for fighting games and Max should be the chief guide and owner of it.

I love Street Fighter Alpha 3. Also, the music in that game slaps

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.

The arcade version's unlock system is pretty nutty, btw. In a nutshell, the longer you let the machine run, the more content gets unlocked. A machine's unlock level (which, from what I hear, advances every few weeks of power-on time) is indicated by, I shit you not, the color of the title screen's background. So you can do Dramatic Battle, Survival, and Final Battle modes on an arcade machine by holding certain triads of attack buttons as you press start after putting your coins in...but only if the machine's been installed for long enough to reach its final unlock level (light blue).

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.

Alpha 3 on PS1 is one of my favorites. The fact you got all the Alpha plus the Turbo World Warriors together for the first time was amazing.

I remember being around 12 years old (c. 2007), I had a laptop I would game on. I remember hearing about Emulation, having grown up mostly with PS1 and PS2, I was eager to download Emulators on my laptop to play more old-school games. I downloaded MAME, and quickly found out it was an Arcade emulator! All I ever played in the Arcades were fighting games, so the very first ROMS I downloaded were Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition, MK1-3, and Street Fighter Alpha 3! The colors, the anime art style, the soundtrack, the energy of Alpha 3 immediately caught my 12 year old attention. I went to school with my laptop one day, and decided to play Alpha 3 during World History II. My teacher (super awesome guy btw, hope he is well) came over and sat down and watched me get my ass kicked by Blanka. He went on to tell the entire class about growing up in the 90's arcades, how Street Fighter 2 ELECTRIFIED everyone in the arcades; everyone wanted to find out who was the best, according to him. Street Fighter 6 is almost here! Can't wait to tour the World again

Alpha 3 is still to this day, the best SF game of all time

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.

Loved this game. Had the PS1 version. Leveled up Ken and maxed out offense. Glass cannon but so fun.

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.😂

I had the PS1 version. I didn't even know World Tour mode was different for other versions.

I just wanna add that there was a Game Boy Advance port called Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper that came out before the PSP port. In that port the character sprites were downsized, but not bad looking (at least not to me), however many voice clips had to get cut out, various music in the game also got cut, and the music sounded, okay. I did like the Game Boy Advance rendition of Ryu's theme as it did have a part of the track that is exclusive to the Game Boy Advance port. There were also unlockable characters in the Game Boy Advance port of Street Fighter Alpha 3. Those characters? Eagle, Maki, and Yun. They showed up on Game Boy Advance before they made it on PSP, and if I recall they did somewhat look more fitting to the cast. Only issues with the Game Boy Advance port of Street Fighter Alpha 3 are that it's not as content rich as Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, when you want to play with the original color of the character you have to press the medium punch button, so on Game Boy Advance the medium Punch button is pressing both light and heavy punch, and Game Boy Advance also has that same problem with multi player as you need to hope you can find not only someone who has a Game Boy Advance, but also the same game. Aside all that, it was considered a good port if I recall correctly, and honestly I think it was an alright port. I will definitely be checking out the Saturn port of Street Fighter Alpha 3 as I never knew World Tour mode on PSP was a different variant. Also I wanna let Max know there was a Darkstalkers Collection on PS2 that was kinda like the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, but it was Japan only. It does have an Art Gallery and many secret games.

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 ! 🎉

Alpha 3 was my first Street Fighter game that I REALLY dug into. It's a masterpiece

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

I had this on Dreamcast...One of my favorite fighting games...might be my favorite. I wish they would make another Alpha style game.

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.