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i wonder if you call those "hints and tips" phone numbers that games in the 00s had printed on the instructions, do any of them still work

@Felthry aren't they usually very expensive hotlines?

@noiob yeah, something like $1/minute or more

we're definitely not going to actually call one of them but i want to know whether any are still active

a lot of them are marked as "auto hints" which indicates they're probably answered by a recording or possibly a phone menu system, which is a lot more likely to still be operational than a staffed hint line

@Felthry I highly doubt any of them are still up (they probably were subcontractors) and the expensive hotline numbers were probably not reused for customer service or sth like that

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