I used to think that the high scores screen on arcade machines were the highest scores ever recorded in the world, not just the highest obtained on that particular machine.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- The highest of all numbers was "a finnety."— Becky
- when i was in kindergarten i used to think that 100 was the highest someone could count!— Jessica
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I used to believe that my life was interesting enough to be a TV show and that they recorded me 24/7Anon