Telephone Helpline

[Peter]

This was posted in the old forums, but hosted else where.

So here it is a recording of the Codemasters Treasure Island Dizzy Telephone Helpline.

[MEDIA]http://www.yolkfolk.com/community/TIDHelpline.mp3[/MEDIA]

[Mayboy]

"This call will be more expensive than a normal phone call"...i bet it is

I never phoned the helpline so it is interesting to hear what was actually said, also be interesting to phone the number now and see what happens.

[Peter]

the phone number was 0898 555 091,

well you dial 0898 5 and you get

*The number you have dialed has not been recoginsed, please hang up and try again *

[AndyUK]

Nice... i actually phoned up for spellbound dizzy once. It actually helped me out with sometyhing almost straight away so i hung up.

[Zurc]

LOL good stuff.

Love the way she says the call will be more expensive and ends up saying unnecessary stuff to drag on the call.

[Joe]

"The treehouse complex is too difficult for me to describe, so explore it for yourself."

thats some great advice, although I suppose it shortens the phonecall... no advice on those tricky coins, though.

actually now that I think about it, I wonder if I used this helpline to get further in Treasure Island Dizzy - I definitely phoned some of those helplines, and I can't think how I would have found out things like using the bible to protect against the cursed treasure (I don't think I'd have figured it out for myself at that age, and I didn't know anyone else with the game).

[AndyUK]

we had a map in one of our magazines so there was no need to phone up.

[Mataeus]

Haha, the good old buy the game for ?3.99, get stuck and pay an extra ?5 for advice... Nice one Codies. Don't get me wrong, they're my fave all-time game publisher but they're still doing the same old trick now. It's not really fair.

I only ever phoned up one help line, but I can't remember which one it was. It was definitely Codemasters, but to be honest I don't think it was a dizzy game.... Same old blurb though.

[Adz.M]

I've rehosted the helpline onto Yolkfolk's ftp, it should work now.

[Mataeus]

"Avoid walking underneath traps.... These will kill you".