Nostalgia! Others have covered it, but I really miss how various cheats or special items seemed to be word of mouth rather than a YouTube video with 5 million v

Nostalgia! Others have covered it, but I really miss how various cheats or special items seemed to be word of mouth rather than a YouTube video with 5 million views. Usually the word of mouth was pretty vague too, which created more mystery. “There’s a way to do X I’ve seen it” with few further details. I remember this floating around about Mike Tyson’s Punch Out ways to beat specific fighters easily, and another for Final Fantasy 2 (US) about a special rare drop item on the moon.