When I went to an arcade when I was about 2 or 3, I thought it was against the law for children to play the racing games where you have a steering wheel and pedal because they didn't have driving licenses.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I used to think that drivers accelerated by turning the steering wheel.Anon
- I once thought that there were little mice under the wheel on Wheel of Fortune making the wheel move— Kara
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- I used to believe that boarding school was where people went to play board games.Anon
- Pressing on the gas pedal means that your car can do anything...including going up a vertical wall.Anon