The first time I played a game with "specular lighting" I misread it as "'spectacular lighting", and thought it made the lights look more spectacular if you turned in on (which I didn't, because the game already crashed a lot.)
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was the longest game ever.Anon
- 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 when i died it was like a super mario game... I had a certain number of lives.— David...waffles
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina
- I used to believe that there where little mice the the street lights that turned them on and off.Anon