in the late 80s/early 90s whenever a game magazine would award a gold/silver/bronze cartridge in their reviews i would be sure to check the cartridge when i got the game to check the connectors to see what colour they were believing them to be gold, silver or bronze depending on the score the magazine gave.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen
- I used to believe that the game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was the longest game ever.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I thought the Civil War was the Silver War.— Vicki J.