The C64 was great for that too, in a different way. You could do absolutely anything, mess it up in any way - peek and poke random system stuff - and you were one reset away from it being fine again.
I really miss this behaviour of 8bit era. I guess that things get soo complicated today and advanced information are soo easy to find that this state is not possible to achieve anymore. You can screw up even a smartphone by "poking" around too much.