[mizaru]

According to Jon Burton, something like this was actually done for the Amiga game Leander, although not with the intent to damage hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaq9vlfoGnA

[pdw]

Here's a photo of the disk: https://twitter.com/herrprofdr/status/959186835929878528

[herpinderpin]

Debunked in this thread by Galahad ( an oldschool amiga cracker ) and Richard Aplin ( a dev ) : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=89662

That Jon Burton guy isn't a reliable source of information.