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A PlayStation 2 version of 3rd Strike was released in 2004, with all of the features from the Dreamcast version, including a choice between the arcade and Dreamcast version's respective soundtracks, but based on the earlier arcade revisions with "unblockables" intact.
In 2004, Game Revolution said that it "just isn't a very exciting addition.
Retrospectively, 3rd Strike was ranked as the 11th best arcade game of the 1990s by Complex; the magazine also placed it tenth on their list of best 2D fighting games of all time in 2013, stating it "is a lot better than many people ever gave it credit for."
A 2022 article published by IGN named it "the greatest fighting game ever made."
A final patch to correct certain issues with the game was released on February 12, 2014.
In Japan, Game Machine listed the game on their July 1, 1999 issue as being the most-successful arcade game of the month.
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike was originally released for the arcades in 1999.
The soundtrack to the first game in the series was released on CD by First Smile Entertainment in 1997, while the 3rd Strike original soundtrack was released by Mars Colony Music in 2000 with an arranged version afterward.
The home console versions sold 56,741 units for the Dreamcast in Japan, 49,088 for the PS2 in Japan, and 60,246 for the Dreamcast in the United States. 3rd Strike was initially not very popular, but was moderately profitable.
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