Retro saturdays and street fighter 3

Capcom finally counts to 3, it's ok if you don't understand that joke but I'll explain it. Back in the 90's there was a noticeable gap in time and fighting games released between street fighter 2 and 3 that it became a running gag in magazines to say that capcom couldn't count to 3 as they were content to make spinoffs instead of street fighter 3. For example there was the vs series(xmen and marvel), xmen children of the atom, marvel super heroes,street fighter alpha 1 and 2, super gem fighter mini mix aka pocket fighters(sf like game with mini characters),super fighter 2 turbo, the darkstalkers series, street fighter ex(3D street fighter) and possibly rival schools. All these before street fighter 3 finally came out in the arcades. So when I finally was able to play it I was in shock and could not believe this game was real

I thought the graphics were the best and elena quickly became my favorite character with sean a close 3nd and of course old standbys ken and ryu still being characters I was good with. This new sf game quickly became the only thing I would play at the arcades and I got really good at it. However I only got to the final boss gil and he is extremely cheap. He has a super where he restores all or most of his health. I lost interest once marvel vs capcom 1 came out and there wasn't a home port of sf3 as the saturn or the ps1 couldn't handle it and the dreamcast came out when this game was already seen as old hat

I'll never forget that year I played street fighter 3 and it's a game that now I feel like playing, if only I had the $$ to buy an arcade cabinet to get the true nostalgia