Most #PS2 users didn't know that if you had a brand new #PlayStation 2 back in the day, you could actually call a secret number for help with beating any PlayStation game! So many PlayStation user didn't even know.. #shorts
That's the point. Hotlines that aren't toll free don't exist for the benefit of the caller. Their sole purpose is to suck as much money as they can from the people desperate enough to call them.
@@Cbrunning849I got the guidebook for Kingdom Hearts when I got it. I initially did not intend to use it other than for maybe the recipes but I ended up having to use it at Hollow Bastion
@@Cbrunning849never saw the point, it's cool but I had a few and they were no more than paperweights for me, I do right down cheat codes though, MK etc.
@@AshtonGodbout I used it for how to unlock ultimate weapons and that kinda thing. Also my mom bought it cause I was a kid so for me I was just up haha
Back in the day before youtube and websites we had 3 sources to rely on. 1. Gaming magazines 2. Word of mouth (possibly the worst) 3. Have an older sibling or friend beat it for you.
Nah, internet was a thing even back in the day. I didn't have a connection until 2005, but I used to print walkthroughs and cheats from a school computer as a kid.
Ah yes the old dail up days lmao can’t even get on if someone was on the phone lol if u couldn’t get on the internet the other option was when ur parents needed to go to the store all I would do was hit the magazine section and would pull out a paper and pin to write cheats or walkthroughs til my mom yelled at me 😂
They technically do this on PS5 with Game Help. Because you need to be a PS Plus member to access tips and videos on how to complete specific sections in a game.
@@Thedill2020it’s just a convenience thing. You can look it up on your phone or computer if you want, but if you wanna look at it on ps5 you need ps plus
@@YuckFouTubeXI was wondering about that. What if we called about a super obscure game? They couldn't know it all. And would we still be charged while they put us on hold to look it up? Lol
@@TBrizzle01 Essentially it took about 15 minutes (and yes you pay for it all) to get to a Nintendo employee all the while you get messages such as "Welcome... To... Nintendo... *Mario sound* etc today we... present... to you... this... fantastic... feature of..." Then the guy I called had the knowledge level of about "Did you blow the cartridge? Well let me check... *Gone for 20 minutes just to tell you "Sorry we don't have that information"* and "I don't know because Zelda 2 is a bad game" Then you get a bill which you could have bought 2-3 other games for
Sega had the same thing, but it was free to call. This was back when the Genesis. They were so nice they even sent me maps for a dungeon crawler game. Shining In The Darkness. Those were great times.
Nintendo has the Nintendo power hotline as well, it’s actually kinda weird if a company didn’t have one of those hotlines. Capcom is the one that sticks out the most to me as the number was printed on pretty much every disc they produced in the 90’s and early 2000’s (they even went through multiple phone numbers).
We had these numbers for 8 bit 80s games on cassette tape (amstrad/spectrum/C64, etc.). It was a pre-recorded walkthrough of the game, if you called just after the bit you were stuck on, you would have to call back later, or wait for the entire walkthrough to be read out and then repeat, costing a small fortune. I got into a lot of trouble as a small kid, calling these numbers 😅
Nintendo had one of these 1-900 tip lines as well. Caused my step-dad a lot of money (apparently) when I kept getting insight into "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" for the GameCube because I was "too young" to play that game. Remember: this was the *early 2000s,* several years before RU-vid would have its first video uploaded and long before video tips were posted to the site at all.
I never forgot. Growing up in the 80s and early 90s meant that if you got stuck in a game and didn't have an issue of Nintendo Power featuring a walkthrough or a friend who had beaten the game, you either called the 900 hint line or you never finished the game.
@@cattysplatBut that would only help if you were stuck at a boss you couldn't beat or a gauntlet of enemies you couldn't survive. If you just couldn't figure what to do next a Game Genie/Game Shark couldn't fix that.
This is awesome. Apparently my dad back in the day used to work for the company that gave the hints. It actually wasn’t Sony it was a third-party that would help gamers. He did it back in college and was a huge gamer. He passed on due to a car accident so I can’t give you more information than that but my whole family were big gamers because of him.
Isn't discord just another sketchy site like motherless or reddit? Idk never been on there, I've seen so many incels talking about it that I feel like it automatically puts you on a list lol
I remember playing an old click-adventure game called Loom on PC when I was a kid. I got stuck on a part and begged my mom to call the hint line so I could ask. I don't remember it helping.
Nintendo Power had a 900 number as well for this. I called it back in the day for help getting past a boss in Paper Mario. I was happy with beating the boss, but my parents weren’t happy when they got their phone bill (even if I was only on for about MAYBE five minutes or so, so the charge wasn’t as bad, they were more upset that I called without getting their permission first).
I once called for something basic on ps1 like how to hook it up basic, but customer service, the point is a week later a demo disc showed up in the mail.
Nintendo had their own hint line dating back to the NES era of Gen 3, and think of the effort they went into back then before widespread internet usage to catalog information and make it fast and accessible for the representative on the phone to answer your question about whatever game you were stuck on
I worked for Sony from 1996-1999 and I was one of the tip line people. We had to be specially trained for being a tip line rep and it was crazy. The RPG’s were the ones we got the most calls on. Beyond the Beyond and Final Fantasy 7 were the most popular ones.
I like to point out the Sega's game help back in the day was a free 800 number, not a 900 number. Strategy guides stressed the business model and the internet killed it off outright.
That sweet spot in the 2000’s where the internet was catching up with a lot of things (news, game info, delivery, etc,.), yet the old ways of doing things were still available (newspapers, check mail ordering, this).
exactly. the good of the internet was there, online games, international communities etc. but not yet the negatives. that all started in the 2010s and forward.
Nintendo had this too but they printed this on every cartridge and disc case up to the Wii. They figured out during the Wii generation that people used the internet to get unstuck.
I remember back in 2003/2004, I was stuck on a part in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and I looked up a text based guide to help me out. This was before RU-vid even existed, and it definitely was not easy without any pictures or visual indication.
In 2018 I finished my cd collection. The album had the ringtone codes in it. So it must've been hidden at the back of the shop for years. On top of that there's a song included in the cd that isn't available on Spotify and RU-vid doesn't have it in high quality. So lucky
I somewhat remember this on some if not all the European releases being simply inside the booklet each country had it's own headquarters, same goes for games had these in the booklet or on a extra paper right next to the booklet, each company had it's own costumer hotline and yeah the prices were crazy ... I also remember removing those when given to kids or glue something over it like art or simple empty paper so they don't get a crazy idea of calling any of them ...
