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    1. StandardDeluxe3000 on

      in what level do you have your problem?

      17

      ok just wait 2 hours for me to get there, and then we both can try solving the same problem!

    2. BigJeffreyC on

      I used that back in the day. If you get stuck, like really stuck in a rpg, there’s nothing you can do till you figure out the next step. In my case it was in a game for game boy called final fantasy adventure. You need to walk a figure 8 around 2 trees to unlock the hidden door.

    3. Ordinaryjay on

      I remember having to call this to beat the mine race in Diddy Kong Quest. And it worked!

    4. John-Basket on

      I remember racking up grandma’s phone bill cause I needed help finding 2 sub tanks in Megaman X

    5. somerandomxander on

      “I’m playing Super Mario Bros and I’m stuck at 8-3 because the damn turtles with the hammer keep killing me. How do I get past these creatures?”

    6. Cold-Community-1715 on

      Pffft. I would just ask Johnny during recess. His Uncle worked at Nintendo. That’s where I learned to hold down the B button when catching Pokémon.

    8. OfficeChairHero on

      I remember my dad being pissed about the huge phone bill from calling the very expensive 900 number to beat Zelda. Was it one of the kids? Nope. It was my mom secretly playing at night. 😂

    14. OscarDivine on

      Am I misremembering? The white sword didn’t need 12 hearts, that was the Magical Sword, wasn’t it? The White Sword only needed 5.

    15. Legitimate-Log-6542 on

      I never called this but I remember it was pretty expensive. They used to advertise on Nintendo Power

    20. CrewMemberNumber6 on

      As a young lad, I used to call the Sierra tip line when I got stuck in the various quest games. It was a 900 number which I didn’t know was used for sex lines. My poor dad nearly had a heart attack when he got the phone bill and thought his 9 year old was calling sex lines. He was relieved when I showed him it was just a video game tip line and started buying me tip books from that point forward.

    22. Expensive_Chance_320 on

      Nintendo Power magazine had all the cheats in the back, I was lucky I got a monthly subscription. Simpler times.

    27. StoneFree247 on

      I used Sega’s hotline to help beat the final boss—Kingpin in Spider Man.  It was 10 kicks to the face, I think.  You could slow Mary Jane’s descent into the fire with your web.  I also used it for some SNES game, but can’t remember what it was. 

    28. culturedgoat on

      I called it twice when I was stuck in Zelda. The second time was because the manual had an error (it states that after beating the first 8 dungeons and assembling the triforce, blowing the whistle will take you to level 9. It does not).

    29. LemonHerb on

      I used to call the Nintendo power help line when I was a kid but they would charge you per minute but if you wrote them a letter it was free.

      So I wrote them a letter asking how to get the Adamant Armor and Spoon dagger in Final Fantasy II.

      They wrote back. The spoon dagger was shown on the box or in the manual but wasn’t actually in the US version of the game.

      They told me how to get the pink tail to get the armor but even after weeks of trying I never got one.

      I actually thought I saved that game somewhere and always intended to go back and do that but it got lost along the way a long time ago

    30. Far_Health_3214 on

      white sword in Zelda ? i love the Zelda series but I don’t recall any white sword. maybe i going to play The Legend of Zelda again

    32. greenrangerguy on

      I once rang up for Ocarina of Time and the guy helped me solve a puzzle (giant block in purple temple) but he wouldn’t help me on where to go after that. It was probably because they want you to ring multiple times for each puzzle. But also In hindsight it could have been a gamer who wanted me to experience the game for myself and not have everything spoon fed to me.

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