Remember the days when you had to dial a 1-900 number and pay an ungodly amount of money to have someone walk you through the most difficult levels of video games?

I barely remember those days — or at least, I remember seeing my dad call the number a few dozen times, steam rolling out of his ears because he just couldn’t take down that final boss.

Well, this interview with former Nintendo GPCs is everything awesome and totally gnarly, dude.

Oh man, those Nintendo Christmas parties sound like they were off the chain! Somehow I have the hunch my office’s holiday potluck will be nothing in comparison…