When I was very small, I was convinced my father (who had no interest in video games whatsoever) had a hidden video gaming hobby, and would sit up at night playing them. I would hear suspiciously video game-like sounds coming from the television late at night, and try to imagine what kinds of strange, secret games he was playing.
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
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina
- 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 watched a Michael Jackson music video with my brother, and we were convinced he was a woman.— Adrian
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon