The game is set nineteen years after the events of Tekken 2, in which Heihachi Mishima defeated his own son Kazuya in the second 'King of Iron Fist' martial arts tournament in order to reclaim his position as head of the powerful Mishima Zaibatsu.
It was originally made for Namco's own proprietary System 12 arcade hardware, an upgrade from their prior PS1-based System 11 boards. Tekken 3 is a 3D fighting game developed and released by Namco on March 20, 1997.
