To continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.
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Insects. At night there would be plenty of insects under every singe street lamp. The windscreen would be full of yellow goo after driving in summer.
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Using a hole punch to make 5 1/4" disks double sided! Saved a lot of money!
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Blow in the cartridge if it doesn’t work. 💪
Hit the coin return button on everything and randomly get lucky once in a while.
My speakers used to be able to let me know I was about to receive a call on my cell phone.
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I think I see boobs!
And then, every so often, when the moon was in the right phase and the stars aligned, it would come in perfectly clearly for a few glorious seconds.
This station now concludes its broadcast day.
That's right. At a certain time of night, TV stations would just stop showing things until morning.
- Receiving junk mail Internet CDs
- Waiting patiently to record a song you liked
- Setting the clock and a timer to record something on your VCR
- The planet Pluto
- Wax lips and candy cigarettes
- Tang
- Translucent electronics
- Cheat Code books
- 1(800) COLLECT & "00 it's magic!"
When you call someone it was normal for someone else to answer and you had to be careful because they could be listening to your call.
Party lines! You'd share your phone line with one or more other households. When the phone rang they all rang with alternating short-long rings to identify which house on the line the caller intended to call. So if someone calls you at 2am, several of your neighbors know about it because their phones rang too. Even better, being a snot nosed kid I knew how to take a set of headphones and clip them onto the line. You'd hear both sides of the conversation of any house on the party line without dropping the call voltage too much and getting caught. That meant no one talked about anything private on the phone, everyone else could be listening.
My jpeg stopped downloading cause my roommate picked up the phone.
Internet you could hear, literally.
Games used to come with books to read, and their anti-piracy measure was to give you a page number and tell you to enter the first word on the page to activate the software.
Of course, you'd copy that floppy and write the code word on the label for your friends.
You could copy the manual on a xerox machine. Of course some publishers were smart and printed the manual in such a way it any copies came out as an illegibly dark mess.
So naturally you took a legitimate manual, manually transcribed it, and made copies of the copy.
IIRC, it was Greg Norman's Shark Attack that had a thing where it would give you a small pixel art picture of the top-down view of a golf course, and you had to go through the game manual and enter in what page that golf course picture appeared on... so we just got a photocopy version of the manual
Lol I had one like that - I made a copy for a friend, but it wasn't just one code word, it could be any one of about a hundred - but he was dedicated, he figured it out somehow over the course of a few weeks.
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