Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

1001 Video Games

Street Fighter III: Third Strike appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Bracelets

One of Chun-Li's win quotes makes reference to her supposedly "throwing her bracelets". Long-time fans know that this was a joke in reference to rumours that in the previous Street Fighter II, Chun-Li could throw her bracelets as a projectile. Subsequently, those rumours gave rise to Chun-Li's current Kikoken fireball projectile added later in the series in Street Fighter II Turbo.

Evo Moment 37 (the Daigo Parry)

The most famous moment in Street Fighter competitive history occurred on 1 August 2004 during the Evolution Championship Series semifinals between Daigo Umehara (playing Ken) and Justin Wong (playing Chun-Li). In the final stage of the match, Wong activated the Houyoku-sen super art, aiming to finish off Umehara who had very low hit points. Umehara managed to successfully parry all 17 hits, accompanied by euphoric cheers from the audience, and responded with activating the Shippuu Jinraikyaku super art which won him the match.

While Umehara lost the subsequent finals, the official recording of the moment (titled by Evo organizers as Moment 37 as they claimed many moments like this occurred in their events) became viral, with Wong claiming that it may have helped revitalize interest in the game genre. The move itself was dubbed the Daigo Parry, and is noted for being difficult to successfully perform.

The full 3-minute recording of the match was uploaded in 2019, and is available here

Hugo

The character named Hugo also appeared in the Final Fight series. Likewise, Poison (the character that appears in his intro and victory poses) was also present in that series. Both would later rejoin the Street Fighter series in Ultra Street Fighter IV as playable characters.