History Main / Cyberspace

* The {{anime}} ''DotHackSign'' (and the DotHack series in general) takes place in "The World", an {{MMORPG}} with a Cyberspace interface.

* The Crystal Wind in DanielKeysMoran's Continuing Time series is essentially the Internet, but is only accessed via agent software that is capable of filtering and organizing the sheer volume of data to present to the users in a coherent way. These [[DigitalAvatar Images]] can range from simple off-the-shelf software that runs on handhelds to custom [[PlayfulHacker Player]]-written powerful Image programs that are borderline ArtificialIntelligence and interact with the Player via through trode headsets to direct brain implants.

* [[http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ This program]] allows you to manage processes on your Unix machine while playing ''{{Doom}}''.

* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' has The Grid, a strange realm ''made from'' people's perception of the Internet as this trope.

* David Wingrove's ''ChungKuo'' has the Shell, an entertainment system in its early stages.

* The anime series ''SwordArtOnline'', originally a 2001 novel, revolves around the concept. It takes place in a {{Virtual Reality}} {{Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game}} (VR MMORPG), where thousands of players immerse their consciousness completely within a virtual reality, but remain trapped there for several years, being forced to adapt to the new virtual environment.
** It's SpiritualSuccessor, "AccelWorld" has a variation. The cyberspace exists in a game known as Brain Burst, which is played by accelerating your brain's processing speed to insane levels. This induces a YearOutsideHourInside effect, where players can spend absurd lengths of time in the "Accelerated World" while time almost stands still on the outside. Other than that, it works similarly to how it does in SAO, except there's no perma-death.

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** It's SpiritualSuccessor, "AccelWorld" has a variation. The cyberspace exists in a game known as Brain Burst, which is played by accelerating your brain's processing speed to insane levels. This induces a YearOutsideHourInside effect, where players can spend absurd lengths of time in the "Accelerated World" while time almost stands still on the outside. Other than that, it works similarly to how it does in SAO, except there's no perma-death.

* ''Lightnovel/SwordArtOnline'': A VRMMORPG where players login to find that they can no longer logout. The creator of the game issues an ultimatum: complete the game by defeating the Final Boss on the 100th floor, and you will be allowed to log out. However, if your avatar dies, then the helmet used to play the game will unleash a pulse of microwave radiation that will fry your brain, [[KilledOffForReal killing you in real life]]. The game aspect is much like a {{Roguelike}}, the main virtual reality aspect is just the visual and audio realism... and the imminent death aspect.

* In the ''SlyCooper'' series, Bentley "hacks" miscellaneous devices by playing a retro-style shoot 'em up.

** And finally, ''KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' allows Sora and Riku to enter The Grid, which is the computer world based on ''TronLegacy''. Unlike the other computer worlds, The Grid can be directly selected from the "World Selection", though in this case, it's because of it's a Dream World. This is the only time in the series where a program [[spoiler: ([[{{ActionGirl}} Quorra]])]] actually gets to leave their computer world.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX 4'' had Cyber Peacock's level set in cyber space, ''X5'' had the "Zero Space" final levels and the TropeNamer ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]]'' series had cyberspace as the parallel world where Cyber Elves and reploid souls live, which is essentially the source code of reality, such that Cyber Elves do their magic by hacking cyberspace.

** Sheep Man's stage in ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' resembles some form of cyberspace: the walls and floor contain green dancing ones and zeroes on a black background, and one recurring enemy is a *mouse cursor* that "draws" little blue panels into existence, which then fly at you!

* In ''{{Alternity}}'', the Internet, radio, TV, the telephone networks, etc., have all been replaced by a single network known as "The Grid". While most people just connect with [=PDAs=], "Grid Pilots" link their brain to it and walk around inside websites set up as 3D worlds.

* In the mod for the original ''{{Half-Life}}'', Minvera there is a section where you are shrunk down to a size smaller than a mouse. At one point you have to clamber around in a PC. Inside are bright lights, streams of binary that you can climb and walk over and the entire section is rather trippy.

* ''SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'' (based on a show called Gridman by [[{{Ultraman}} Tsuburaya Productions]]) centered around this.

* The levels in ''ShadowTheHedgehog'' that are set in the Internet and the computer network in Eggman's base.

* TadWilliams' ''{{Otherland}}'' books successfully combine Sci-Fi and Fantasy tropes by being set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, and creating Fantasy environments within the bounds of cyberspace. It's worth mentioning that travel time is normally nearly instantaneous, but specific virtual environments can be configured to simulate realistic movement, and this is considered something of a cachet of the eccentric and well-off.

* R. Talsorian Games' ''Cyberpunk 2020''.

* The video game ''Ripper'' makes heavy use of a VR-type Cyberspace; they even call it as such, and it's a major plot point throughout the game.

* In the interactive fiction game ''Frederik Pohl's Gateway'' (loosely based on the ''Literature/HeecheeSaga'') Virtual Realities are fairly common and play an important part in the story. Typically, the player will have to break the VR they're in somehow - for example, by causing it to run out of memory or doing something that confuses the simulation.

* ''VRTroopers'' featured virtual reality as an AlternateUniverse, so things created in VR (such as MechaMooks, [[OneWingedAngel supervillain forms]], and a MonsterOfTheWeek for every occasion) could be brought into reality. "Virtual Reality" tends to resemble the BBCQuarry in most episodes.

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' frequently requires the player to log into a cyberspace representation of the Citadel Station network in order to retrieve passwords and disable door locks.

* The anime series ''SwordArtOnline'', originally a 2001 novel, revolves around the concept. It takes place in a {{Vitual Reality}} {{Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game}} (VR MMORPG), where thousands of players immerse their consciousness completely within a virtual reality, but remain trapped there for several years, being forced to adapt to the new virtual environment.