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>Did you ever call to the Nintendo or Sega Hotlines asking for hints or cheats?
Yes, and I remember I often couldn't hear what the guy said, so I would call back multiple times. Like this one time I was playing Shadowgate on the NES and I wanted to know what to do with the underground lake and the guy was saying throw the "sphere" into the river, but I kept hearing "spear" and I kept trying to throw the spear into the lake but the game wouldn't let me. After about the third or fourth time that I called the guy literally yelled "SPHERE" into the phone and I was like whoa, and felt embarrassed, then I said sorry and hung up. But the question is, why do you throw a sphere into the lake, that doesn't make any sense? Throwing the spear makes sense because spears are a throwing weapon and there could be a monster that you need to kill in the lake or maybe it's a King Arthur scenario and the lady of the lake gives you back your spear in an enchanted form, but throwing a sphere? That makes no sense.