When my dad told me that the CPU people in Super Smash Bros. Melee were 'computer controlled', I thought it meant that our computer told the gamecube about what to make the CPUs do if certain things happened. Because of this, whenever I won a fight against a CPU, I thought the computer was broken.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- I used to think people didnt actually kiss on tv,i thought that the computer just made it look that way.— deanna
- I used to think cut and paste meant there were scissors and glue inside the computer!Anon
- When I was 7 my brother told me that when the space of the computer runs out it will explode.— Sam
- My cousin thought the BASIC computer command GOTO was prenounced "Got-oo" rather than "Go To"— Richard Davies
- I used to pronounce the word "Computer" as "Crocuta"
Anon - I used to believe Chad Kroeger from Nickelback was computer generated— Indeed