History Main / VideoGameGeography

* The Blue Sphere special stages in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series take place on checkered donuts, but visually projected onto a sphere. It can get pretty disorienting if you think about the disparity too hard while playing.

* '''Flat and country-shaped''': You can't walk off the edge of the map, which is shaped like any real-world border, irregular and conforming to mountains, rivers, etc. You can see some [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail_(computer_graphics) LOD]] land beyond the border, but you cannot get there and discover that it's sound stage quality. Most well known from the Bethesda {{RPG}}s (''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' and the new ''[[VideoGame/Fallout Fallouts]]'').

* '''Flat and country-shaped''': You can't walk off the edge of the map, which is shaped like any real-world border, irregular and conforming to mountains, rivers, etc. You can see some [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail_(computer_graphics) LOD]] land beyond the border, but you cannot get there and discover that it's sound stage quality. Most well known from the Bethesda {{RPG}}s (''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' and the new ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}''s).

* ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'' uses the "there's more to the world but you can't go there" method ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by claiming navigation systems go haywire when you reach the edge of Prairie and it's just too dangerous to continue, but somehow Waffle and friends manage to make {{Continuity Cameo}}s in ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}''). [[http://www.cc2.co.jp/mamoru/bronx/img/bronx.jpg This map]] shows Prairie (''VideoGame/TailConcerto'') relative to Nipon (from the ''Mamoru-kun'' disaster preparedness promotions), but leaves out future installments like Shepherd (''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'') and whatever land ''StrelkaStories'' will be based in.

* The [=SNES=] game ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'', contains not one, but two world maps - [[HollowWorld underworld Earth]] (although there is no way for you to cross all the way around in any direction, as you cannot cross the lava seas), and overworld Earth - both of which are toroidal. In the overworld, which is supposed to be '''Earth''', go north from Greenland and you'll end up in the Antarctic.
* Similar to the above, in Chapter 4 of ''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'' it's somehow possible to travel south from Australia and end up at the North Pole.