Leo spent the weekend rebuilding his PS3’s system software, losing all his legitimate TTT2 save data—hundreds of hours of honest practice, custom outfits for his main (Dragunov), and his hard-earned green rank.

He sat on his couch, controller in hand, staring at the fresh install of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 . No unlocks. No gold. No P rank. Just the music and the roster.

Leo’s living room was a shrine to the PlayStation 3 era. Worn-out fight sticks leaned against a hand-me-down 42-inch plasma TV. On the screen, the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 character select screen glowed, but Leo wasn’t smiling. He was losing. Again.

Marcus messaged him later: “You back online?”

Leo typed back: “Yeah. No generators. Just Tekken.”