Yes they can.
Anyone who had a Spectrum in the 80's could tell you the tear jerking pain of waiting 50 minutes for Operation Thunderbolt to load only to have it crash 1 minute in to playing.
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The most Cornish of software bugs
Arr! Tape loading error.
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