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Museum exhibits a simulated 1993 Game Hint phone line

Rob Beschizza
Jan 23, 2026
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If GameFAQs is past its prime and its contents devoured whole by the LLMs, it remains a wonder of the web. Thanks to it, a generation of gamers never needed human help to overcome their hurdles. And they certainly didn’t need to make a phone call to an expensive tip line, the pre-internet status quo that Jeff Veasey disrupted when …

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