When did Wal-Mart remove the section with physical computer games and applications?
K-Mart 1997 was my peak for this, I remember seeing them as late as 2012

>>11843383 (OP)
I remember seeing fucking StarCraft on the shelves as late as the late 2000's.

>>11843390
My local walmart had StarCraft and Diablo II on the shelves as late as 2013

I also vaguely recall seeing the various Blizzard Reddit Chests alongside Big Rigs-tier shovelware slop around 10-15 years ago.

>>11843383 (OP)
Some Walmarts actually still have these sections around me and in rare cases, you can still find completely DRM free physical releases there(though mostly hidden object slop). About a year ago, I found a physical version of Bridge Constructor, full release, no Steam installer BS. I remember I also found similar of that one modern hack and slash game trying to imitate ASCII game characters. I remember maybe around 2015 I also found a collection disc there that had some really interesting, full-release games on them that I had never seen before, like modern-ish remakes of North & South and Prehistorik Man.

>>11843405
Definitely longer for mine, but nothing after switch era. Everything stopped being interesting. I remember even in the early 2010s there was still point and click adventure games for win98 in a bin mixed in with other discount software and such. Better times.

probably has something to do with modern PCs having no disk drives also digital marketplaces

>>11844167
WalMart is (or was, maybe they've changed) notorious for leaving things out for sale long past their intended shelf life. That said, since it seems like every American male between the ages of 12 and 60 fancies themselves as a videogame collector nowadays, I highly doubt that any game sits on the clearance rack for more than a month or two, nothing like the old days of finding a GBA game rotting on a rack into the 2010s or whatever.

>>11843383 (OP)
My walmart still has that

>>11843383 (OP)
Late ps2 era was when they reduced the pc section massively, before it was similar in size to a console section. They had classics for much cheaper, just install and type the serial code, worked fine. EB games type places would accept refunds so the shelves started filling up games that had been previously opened, likely just copied them. Even games I wanted I would put back because once its opened its 2nd hand, could have been avoided if they kept them sealed like so many people wanted them to do. I still have over a dozen of those dvd style pc budget games, still cool to run even now. Last boxed pc game I got from the time was crysis, can even install it now on my modern pc from the disc and works fine.
They had pc games in stores but the majority had things like games for windows live, I'd buy them if they were cheap on the understanding that I'm buying an online activation code. Even if you install from the disc it still makes you download the whole thing anyway.

>>11844167
And if the online service is down it feels kind of lame to even have the box.

>>11843847
I think in 2014 I got Crysis 1 and Starcraft 2

>>11844349
Mine to full price in its fullest glory

>>11843383 (OP)
The Wal-Marts around me finally got rid of the PC stuff a couple years ago. I heard a lot of the physical releases were just a box and a download code though.
>>11844226
My local Target had a clearance endcap that had shit like Final Fantasy Tactics for 10 bucks in 2010 or so.

>>11843841
What state is this even in?