/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6838372
Did you get your money refunded?

>>6838372
U must have been a rich kid. I don't know a single person that ever actually called nintendo. I don't even recall anyone that knew anyone else that did either.

>>6838382
He went to a thrift store

>>6838385
What parent would go to a thrift store yet be cool with running up 900 # bills

>>6838382
we werent rich
but we called ONE time

nintendo took for fucking ever
mom bought the guidebook after that

>>6838372
it's probably just listed as Castlevania II, "simon's quest" is the subtitle, it's like if you asked someone unfamiliar with mario about a game called "legend of the seven stars"

>>6838415
who said they were cool with it? they probably quickly learned how to put a toll lock on it afterwards

>>6838372
sucks to be you
>>6838382
no parent would let their kid's call it unless they were verified retards.
>>6839238
my parents had such a lock that they'd enable over the phone. there was a flaw: i had an extension line and could record audio. I worked out what keypad tones were being sent and from there i could do what I liked. If there were more calls in a month, they couldn't blame me or my siblings as we didn't know the lock code..supposedly.

>>6839252
Why do you have to lie to impress people? What a sad life.

>>6839305
>What a sad life.
and here you are.. posting on an image board. cringe.

>>6838372
>bought riglord saga in japanese for saturn
>couldn't figure out how to escape the intro sequence (game starts with escape from jail)
>complain about it being unplayable at the shop
>they hand me english walkthrough
>complain again because I don't speak english and are a kid
>shop owner shrug nothing else he can do.gif
>get home and try everything
>try killing everyone except boss and get try to get killed by him
>solves intro sequence successfully
>getting stuck again occasionally and figure out all quest and the whole game by trial and error
>having a great time.jpg

>>6839305
What part of his story do you think was a lie? Kids learn how to problem solve, it's not unbelievable if you aren't retarded

>>6839819
so wait, you were playing a japanese rpg, with an english walkthrough, and you didn't know either language?
why?
maybe i just don't understand, being a native english speaker, but surely you have games in your own language?

>>6838372
Why was that thread with the video game sins deleted? Is this place going to be as strict and as stupid as /tv/ now? Fucking shit. Wasn't even my thread.

>make a game so cryptic you have to either subscribe to a magazine, buy a game guide that costs as much as the game, or call a premium hotline asking for tips
the good ole days

>Had piece of shit Fellowship of the Ring game on GBA
>Door in Moria crashes the game when you try to walk through
>Call Nintendo for help and they tell me some crazy advice about opening menus right as you walk through the door
>It actually worked
I was amazed

>get stuck in ffx
>look it up on gamefaqs
>it werks
based

>>6841116

Dude was a kid. It sounds like a fun thing to do to me. I mean I wouldn't do it now, because I'd recognize the genre of the game probably, and then I'd just be annoyed. I'd know what KINDS of things you could do in games of this genre, so there wouldn't be any fun surprises. But if I were a little kid and in the right mood then I might love it.

>>6841307
yea, idk, again maybe it's just because i'm a native english speaker, you have to go out of your way to get non-english things in an english country, so being stuck with a non-english game was not something i had to deal with

I think we called once, when I was a kid. I don't remember who was there - maybe my mom and my sister? I don't know why we called. I don't know what we asked or what they told us. I don't think it helped a lot, whatever it was. So it probably wasn't worth however many dollars it cost.

We also had Nintendo Power so who cares, you'd just use that normally if you wanted to cheat.

>>6838382
my friend had Sega Chanel. he wasnt rich but his parents actually loved him.

>>6838382
The only people I've ever known to call a hint line for a game are my parents, who made several calls to one over a Sherlock Holmes game before I was born.

>>6839252
Lying motherfucker you didn't do that shit. What, did you just watch a YouTube video on phreaking you zoomer piece of shit?

>>6838382
>making one phone call makes you a richfag
Were you like a literal fucking peasant growing up? I was poor as dirt and even I could afford to call once.

>>6841116
Hes some Slavshit or maybe an Italian

>>6841117
the mods are faggots
and you're surprised?
must be new

>>6842889
>Lying motherfucker you didn't do that shit
not only did it but I was great at sort of thing. I didn't have the internet in 1991, just a basic understanding of electronics and phones. must be hard for today's zoomy zoomzooms not being able to have an original idea of their own. sad.

>>6841118
Those Kemco adventures spring to mind. The amount of times I must have called over every stupid little puzzle in Shadowgate...