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=== [[Driving Game]]s ===

* The Beginner tracks of ''[[Daytona USA]]'' and ''Daytona USA 2''. Justified in that the other courses tend to be <s>Nintendo</s> [[Nintendo Hard|Sega Hard]].

* ''[[Rock Band]]'' (the original) has Say It Ain't So by Weezer as it's first song when ordered by band difficulty. When the developers were testing the game before implementing the song select screen, this was the default song that played every time, reportedly driving many Harmonix developers into madness.

 

* Most ''[[Giga Wing]]'' players use the default character, [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Sinnosuke/Shinnosuke]]. To quote one user on YouTube:

{{quote|"Don't pick slow ship! [[Awesome but Impractical|Just because it has wide shot doesn't mean it's gonna save your ass!]] [[Mighty Glacier|You're gonna have to move, too.]]"}}

* In-universe example: In the Halo series, when Master Chief takes over a Covenant ship, Cortana finds that she can get vastly better performance out of it just by tweaking the settings. The Covenant believed the ships were holy relics left to them by the Forerunners, you see, and any modification of them would be blasphemy of the highest order, so it stayed on the factory defaults.

 

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', an in-universe example - [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2005-06-14 Newspaper arc] "Dan in the [[MUD]]".

 

* Starting with Office 97, Microsoft included the now-infamous "Office Assistants". There were numerous assistants (including a robot and a caricature of [[William Shakespeare]]), but the default was a paperclip. However, most people, annoyed by the [[Stop Helping Me!|"feature"]], never bothered to change it and it's still remembered by most people as "the paperclip".

 

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