If you were an Xbox 360 owner back in 2012, you lived through a golden, albeit slightly confusing, era of fighting games. While Street Fighter IV was dominating the EVO stage, Namco Bandai dropped what many consider the peak of the "tag era": .

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If you didn't buy the DLC, you could still fight against people using Slim Bob or Angel online. This prevented the "walled garden" issue that killed other fighting games. Furthermore, the real DLC value was in the .

Let’s fire up the backwards compatibility and break down the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 DLC situation for the Xbox 360. First, a quick history lesson. When TTT2 launched, Sony had a marketing deal. The PS3 version got exclusive access to some retro arcade classics (the original Tekken and Tekken 2 ) on the disc. Xbox 360 players, however, had to look to the Xbox Live Marketplace for their fix.