> 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

> 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.