This game is one of the most important games of the late 1990s, spurring on a continued prosperity and unprecedented advancement in the 3D Fighting Game genre that we can still feel to this day. As of 2025, it is the 5th best selling game on the entire PlayStation 1 console, beating out similarly revolutionary titles such as Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot and Resident Evil 2, and almost any gamer or game developer around at the time will be able to fondly recount its long-lasting effect on them almost 3 decades after its initial release.
Despite this though, Tekken 3 remains legally unavailable on modern consoles and PC, with its latest release being as part of the now outdated PlayStation Classic in 2018, a system that lacks any kind of online support whatsoever. This is especially troublesome for Tekken 3, as it being a Fighting Game means that multiplayer is one of its main draws, and the complete inability to access this game's main driving force without either a person to physically be next to you in a time where the world is becoming increasingly online focused, or the use of dubious unofficial emulation condemned by a large portion of the Japanese game development space is concerning for the future of this period-defining game.
A re-release of this game spearheaded by GOG, preferably with the addition of at least competent rollback netcode for smooth online play, would allow Tekken 3 to live on forever on our modern hardware instead of being relegated to an over 30 year old console that, although is in great abundance right now, is gradually becoming more and more inaccessible by the day.