a windbreaker jacket worn by nintendo "game play counselors" who manned the “powerline” tip hotline (late '80s) "by calling the counselors at (206) 885-PLAY, players could get 1-on-1 instruction to defeat a pesky boss or navigate a challenging dungeon." https://games.avclub.com/what-was-it-like-to-be-a-nintendo-game-play-counselor-1798286981
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@moshboy first phone call i ever made was to Nintendo's hint line
the floor tile puzzle in the fourth dungeon of Link's Awakening had me stumped
later i was able to get maps for Zelda 1 out of the hint line by asking for the dungeon dimensions, drawing a Battleship-style grid, and then asking which squares to fill in
they were surprisingly accommodating on that front in retrospect
