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How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) (europe.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. You press the same number as many times as you need. If the whole word is under 5 then the number is all 5s. lol. I’m not originally from the US myself and just learned this a couple of years ago. Never seen it anywhere else but the US.