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ACE COMBAT 3: ELECTROSPHERE

JPN ROW Japan ROW

ACE COMBAT 3: ELECTROSPHERE

Departing: 1999

FORMAT

■ PlayStation

DEVELOPER

■ Namco

YEAR

■ 1999

ORIGIN

■ Japan

LOCALISED FOR

■ Rest Of World

REASONS

■ Commercial

These days it’s common to hear cries that a western version of a Japanese That term is far more appropriately used for something like Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, an entry in Namco’s aerial warfare series that received radically different releases in Japan and the west.

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