4 ms·
If you want to cheat in 2025, you buy a bag of virtual coins and spend those coins on boosters, extra turns, etc. If you wanted to cheat in 1992, you'd call th
by steve_taylor 2y ago
If you want to cheat in 2025, you buy a bag of virtual coins and spend those coins on boosters, extra turns, etc.
If you wanted to cheat in 1992, you'd call the Sega Hotline on a premium phone number and they'd give you cheat codes.
It's the same thing, just a different medium and middleman.
- TapamN 2y agoIn 1992, you more options. Your friends could tell you for free, you could stumble on them yourself, or you could get them with a magazine or book (which you didn't necessarily have to buy, you could just flip through it at the store and memorize the cheats.)
- Gormo 2y agoDon't forget about dialing into the local BBS and trying to find cheats and tricks in text files.
- bityard 2y ago> you'd call the Sega Hotline on a premium phone number I remember the ads for that but I've never met a single person who did that. (Or whose parents would be okay with it.) Cheat codes were either shared by word of mouth among friends or in magazines. Or you bought a game genie, but that was more for messing around with a game's mechanics than actual, blatant cheating.
- wkat4242 2y agoIn those days cheating didn't impact other players. This is why pay to win is a bigger problem now.
- interludead 2y agoIn 2025, the "cheating" has become a business model