This game had like a 60% chance of frying my computer every time I booted it up, but the game inside was so captivating that I would repeatedly tempt fate all the time just to try and reach a new stage

In retrospect it just messed with the monitor's resolution settings and wouldn't revert them back after closing the application, but childhood me had no idea what that meant and didn't want to get in trouble for breaking the computer so I'd just do a system restore to fix it because that's what I read on the internet about removing viruses so surely that must be the remedy here