I used to think that video game cheat codes were illegal, and if you used them, police would take your video games away. I didn't understand why it was illegal to sell magazines full of cheat codes. I thought that the store had a special license to sell them or something.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- I thought drug stores sold drugs. I never understood how they could sell illegal drugs.— Diana Rios
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- I used to think that Legal and Illegal meant the same thing (illegal)— Dhruv
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- 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 wonder why the government didn't just make war illegal..— Samilton Duerheiser