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How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) (europe.pub)
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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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[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Some games let you keep playing without the correct code... until the difficulty automatically ramped up to impossible levels.