“Went looking in the game section at my local Walmart and found a PS2 game in the locked cabinet, unfortunately not a game I’ve been looking for, but almost tried to buy for the hell of it, cool to see the old price sticker as well,” shared KingTRoss on Reddit.
On Tuesday, I noticed this put up, chuckled, and shared it with others at Kotaku in our Slack chat. As my coworkers talked concerning the odd discovery and a few questioned if it was actual or a prank, I began trying round to see how frequent it’s for PS2 video games to be present in Walmart and different huge field shops. Turns out it’s not as rare as you might think, with users sharing photos of unsold PS2, PSP, and PS3 games still lingering on shelves like retail zombies hiding in varied shops throughout america.
Then I stumbled upon a post from January from DiviniusMoogle on the PlayStation subreddit. They’d additionally discovered a duplicate of PBR: Out of the Chute for PS2 at their native Walmart. “Weird!” I believed to myself. Then I seen that the stickers on the sport case matched up completely with the stickers on the opposite copy of PBR, and I noticed that, wait, these may be the identical recreation?
So I contacted each Reddit customers and independently requested them the place their native Walmarts have been positioned. Each of them instructed me Delaware, seemingly confirming that the sport seen in each posts is similar. It seems that no person needs to purchase PBR: Out of the Chute. When I shared this revelation with KingTRoss, they replied: “Small world!!”
Apparently, it additionally appears to be like like this previous PS2 recreation is getting shuffled round at this Walmart positioned in Delaware. Within the picture from January, PBR is contained in a tough plastic case and is sitting out within the open. In KingTRoss’s newest picture, the sport has been faraway from the plastic case and put behind plexiglass with PS5 and PS4 video games and equipment. Perhaps an worker at that location is making an attempt to assist the sport get bought. Making an attempt to assist it discover a house after practically 20 years of ready. And it won’t have to attend lengthy. Each customers appear fascinated about returning to Walmart to test on the sport and maybe even purchase it. So this story may need a contented ending in any case.
