Great game. Thanks, SprinkL3.

Oh, yeah. Party lines on phones where people had different rings to know the call was for them, such as one long and two shorts. Pay phones, requiring going through an operator and being able to "reverse the charges" to the person you were calling.

Dial phones, with a great deal of satisfaction when you got mad at somebody and could slam the receiver down, thus ending the call.

Princess dial phones even in different colors or the standard black dial telephone. Dialing was more fun than punching on numbers.