My parents told me this in order to keep me from playing video games too long... They said if I kept a video game on for more than an hour, it would either melt or explode, and so would the TV. I believed this for years!
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to believe that the video clip are realized in one time and the singers are singing with to the music Anon