Byeohazard: Back in the day.....eh hem
You could walk into a Electronics Boutique (EB) and be surrounded by 4 walls of PC games.
This. I remember always going in to the EB at the mall around 2000-2003 and browsing all the PC games. The entire right and back wall were stocked with PC games, and there were so many they had to put them all sideways to make room. In those years, I couldn't leave EB without buying a PC game. I remember going through every single one of them, always seeing hidden gems or new games I had never heard about.
Then they just started disappearing. Two walls became one. One became a half wall. Then a single section. Now it's on the back of the Gamecube games rack in the back corner of the store.
Also, back in my day, games were longer than 6-8 hours long.