I never knew ANYONE whose parents were uninvolved enough to let them call a video game "tip hotline". Every mother I knew would smack your hand if she caught you dialing one of those toll numbers, and they were right to do so.

One rare exception was the Skulljagger Insult Hotline, a toll-free number they put out as part of the massive pre-release hype campaign for that otherwise forgettable SNES pirate platsworder title (the hype WAS pretty fun though. there was a comic book and everything). I'm probably one of the few human beings on earth who actually called it, let alone remembers it. It was just a prerecorded message, where the titular pirate yells off a string of insults at you and then dares you to buy the game, but I learned the words "quivering bowl of lard" from it.