10 Well-Known Gaming 'Facts' That Are Actually Bulls**t

7. Vacuum Cleaners Destroyed PlayStation Games

The more you think about how blissfully unaware you were of basic physics and the goings-on of the universe as a kid, the more it makes you realise how the crushing realisations of real life suck the fun out of everything. It turns out the floor wasn't lava after all, pulling faces didn't make your face stay like that - and as much as it became this strange "Watch the roads!"-style tale of instant-death, letting your mum run a vacuum cleaner over a PlayStation disc didn't wipe it either. It's the sort of thing that gained notoriety because no one was ever going to gamble with their own collection to prove otherwise, and although plenty younger players promptly sprang into action to save their beloved titles from being randomly wiped into Spring-cleaned oblivion, there wasn't a shred of truth to this whatsoever.