History Main / TechnoWreckage

* ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' has Shandor Island. Granted, it's not high-tech by our 21st Century standards, but Egon notes that Ivo Shandor was considered ''the'' paranormal experts of his time. There's a lot of fun stuff to look out for here, like open vats of highly toxic black slime (with ghosts and other assorted beasties emerging from the Black Slime portals), cosmic machinery powered by said slime, loads of Iron Maidens, and an astral orrery [[spoiler: with a Juvenile Giant Slor imprisoned underneath. If that's a Juvenile Slor, you'd hate to see how big they get when fully grown...]]

* 2300 AD in ''ChronoTrigger'' has pretty much everything listed above.

* The Tower of Geddon from ''ChronoCross''.

A high tech area that is abandoned and in disrepair. Expect to see exposed wires, damaged wires that screw with the power, bad lighting that is most likely powered through the damaged wiring, and at least one puzzle devoted to restoring power. Don't expect to see sentient {{Mook}}s here; you may find rats or some fantastic vermin that have been chewing the wiring, various mutant monsters, and security drones (that will only turn on after the above mentioned "restore the power" puzzle), but expect your biggest foe to be the environment. [[NightmareFuel Scary (or at least keeps you on edge) all around]]. This one is rarely found in linear titles, because a key factor in these levels is exploration.

* ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' has Shandor Island. Granted, it's not high-tech by our 21st Century standards, but Egon notes that Ivo Shandor was considered THE paranormal experts of his time. Anyway...there's a lot of fun stuff to look out for here, like open vats of highly toxic black slime (with ghosts and other assorted beasties emerging from the Black Slime portals), cosmic machinery powered by said slime, loads of Iron Maidens, and an astral orrery [[spoiler: with a Juvenile Giant Slor imprisoned underneath. If that's a Juvenile Slor, I'd hate to see how big they get when fully grown...]]

** There's also the crashed Space Pirate frigate in ''MetroidPrime'', and the GFS Valhalla in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption''. The Valhalla probably takes the cake among the three as far as [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scariness]] goes, what with freaktastic music, corpses everywhere (with scans revealing how they died), dreadful Phazon monsters in every room, and more Metroids in this one area than has been seen in the entire franchise except possibly Tourian in the original game.

** ''Fallout3'' and ''FalloutNewVegas'' provide more abandoned vaults, alongside with {{Apocalyptic Log}}s to detail exactly how bad things went.

* ''The Secret Of The Nautilus'', a sequel to ''TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea]]'', is set in the abandoned ''Nautilus'', the only humans being the player and a madman trying to bring it down.

* ''VideoGame/Portal2'' starts with the first game's Enrichment Center in this state (thanks to the Chell and the player last time round, and an indefinite period of neglect), though [=GLaDOS=] clears up a lot of it during Act One.

* The Lost Colony Level in ''SonicAdventure2''.

* The Glow in ''{{Fallout}}'' is a typical example, with no other [=NPCs=] except the security bots (that are inactive for the most part, and can be turned off at the same console the power is activated through) and a friendly computer AI (that provides some interesting back story) AND it's highly radioactive all around (lingering to play chess with the AI considered harmful). The 2 abandoned vaults also qualify. The Sierra army depot in the sequel also qualifies.
** Fallout3 and FalloutNewVegas provide more abandoned vaults, alongside with {{ApocalypticLog}}s to detail excatly how bad things went.

* The secret of the Nautilus, after 20.000 leagues under the sea, is set in the abandoned Nautilus, the only humans being the player and a madman trying to bring it down.

* More or less everywhere in TheDig.
* In one of the {{Norby}} books, the titular robot and his companion end up prisoner in an underwater city belonging to the enigmatic Invaders. After a few adventures they end up accessing the deeper, forbidden levels of the city, where they find that not only is the whole area long abandoned, in severe disrepair and leaking all over the place, but the survival of the newer side of the city is entirely dependant on the progressively failing machinery housed in the old area. The Invaders go "uh-oh".

* Several environments in ''{{Xenosaga}}'' probably qualify, as well, including every time you visit Miltia.

* The Space Junk Galaxy in ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. It's a deep space debris field that feels peaceful and idyllic, lending its own UnkemptBeauty.

* ''DeusEx'' has the Ocean Lab, where after Illuminati sabotage half the place is submerged, turrets automatically fire at anything and can't be turned off (in the rest of the game they only attack after an alarm activates) and [=MJ12=] experiments have been released from their cages. [[spoiler:Walton Simons]] who follows you here, is the only human (at least, living human) other than JC Denton in the whole underwater segment.

* ''SkiesofArcadia'' has a very light version of this in the early areas of the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon final dungeon]]. As these outer areas have been exposed to the elements for centuries, they have decayed dramatically. the deeper you go, the more clean and pristine the tech becomes.

** There's also the crashed Space Pirate frigate in ''Metroid Prime'', and the GFS Valhalla in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption''. The Valhalla probably takes the cake among the three as far as [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scariness]] goes, what with freaktastic music, corpses everywhere (with scans revealing how they died), dreadful Phazon monsters in every room, and more Metroids in this one area than has been seen in the entire franchise except possibly Tourian in the original game.

* The Glow in ''{{Fallout}}'' is a typical example, with no other NPCs except the security bots (that are inactive for the most part, and can be turned off at the same console the power is activated through) and a friendly computer AI (that provides some interesting back story) AND it's highly radioactive all around (lingering to play chess with the AI considered harmful). The 2 abandoned vaults also qualify. The Sierra army depot in the sequel also qualifies.

** There's also the crashed Space Pirate frigate in ''Metroid Prime'', and the GFS Valhalla in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption''. The Valhalla probably takes the cake among the three as far as [[NightmareFuel scariness]] goes, what with freaktastic music, corpses everywhere (with scans revealing how they died), dreadful Phazon monsters in every room, and more Metroids in this one area than has been seen in the entire franchise except possibly Tourian in the original game.

A high tech area that is abandoned and in disrepair. Expect to see exposed wires, damaged wires that screw with the power), bad lighting that is most likely powered through the damaged wiring, and at least one puzzle devoted to restoring power. Don't expect to see sentient {{Mook}}s here; you may find rats or some fantastic vermin that have been chewing the wiring, various mutant monsters, and security drones (that will only turn on after the above mentioned "restore the power" puzzle), but expect your biggest foe to be the environment. [[NightmareFuel Scary (or at least keeps you on edge) all around]]. This one is rarely found in linear titles, because a key factor in these levels is exploration.

* SkiesofArcadia has a very light version of this in the early areas of the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon final dungeon]]. As these outer areas have been exposed to the elements for centuries, they have decayed dramatically. the deeper you go, the more clean and pristine the tech becomes.
* The Lost Colony Level in SonicAdventure2.

* The Derelict Ship in ''Adventures of Rad Gravity''.

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* The abandoned gas mines on Ord Ibanna in ''StarWars: Episode 1 Racer'', which also qualify as a FloatingContinent.

* The abandoned gas mines on Ord Ibanna in ''StarWars: Episode 1 Racer''.

* The Lost Colony Level in SonicAdventure2.