First a Final Fantasy based one; I totally miss read the line "Attack while the tail's up! It's gonna counter with its laser." I thought it was telling me to attack when the tail was up, before the boss used its laser or something when in actual fact it was warning me that if I attacked when the tail was up it would counter with the laser - I kept attacking, and couldn't figure out why it kept firing the laser, and soon died.

One really stupid thing I did when I was about six or something was when I was playing a Mario game on my GameBoy was run straight on to a spiked floor - for some God Mistaken reason, it just didn't register they were dangerous.

Finally (for now) two mistakes I made while playing Zelda: Link's Awakening; this was my very first Zelda game, as you will soon see by the mistakes. Firstly, I had no idea how the menus worked, and once after pressing start I must have pressed my Sword Button, and unequipped it (I only had a sword and shield at that point) then I searched the whole area for my sword! I thought I'd dropped it or something - the really stupid thing is I was look for it for days! I eventually found what I had done purely by accident.

The second thing I did was refuse to go to the first dungeon for ages; why? Well on the map it simply read "Level 1: Tail Cave" and I thought that I must have somehow done level one because I thought it was going in order. So I just spent ages trying to get into level two, but couldn't find it.