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How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) (programming.dev)
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Granted, the "nickel and diming" of hotline numbers (1900, 0900, etc) was nowhere as bad as today's cash shops, but a lot of us simply forgot they were always hungry for all our money

Here's a bunch other hotline ads for you to peruse - https://www.retromags.com/gallery/category/1729-telephone-hotlines/

PS: I never understood these american numbers that used letters, how were you supposed to know what was the actual number?

A 1994 ad for several pay-per-call numbers, each for a specific game publisher, such as Capcom, Data East, Sierra On-Line, Electronic Arts andActivision.
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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Which I found amazing, and always wondered how they had that information in the era before Gamefaqs.

What game was that, by the way? Because I immediately think every hotline worked the same: company makes one or two parts stupidly difficult to get through just so a few will end up calling. Sierra On-line's adventure games were notorious for their pants-on-head logic and hidden shit.

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