I played the Ocarina of Time far too much as a child and I believed that Hyrule was a real place in England or something. I thought there would be a castle, a princess, monsters, Ganon, and Link would have me help him if I went there.
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
- Being a princess was a real profession— victoria
- I believed the mosque down the road was Aladdin's castle, and my mum went along with it to keep me happy.— Elena
- When I was a child, I believed that Stuart Little was real and I always wanted to have one. Anon
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon