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Marlon Gomez likes his video-game discs. The 41-year-old shipping worker, shopping recently at a GameStop in Los Angeles, said he can lend them out or bring them to friends’ homes, which he can’t do with a download. He can also sell used games back to the company.

“I’m old school that way,” Gomez said in an interview.