History Main / GreenHillZone

* ''VideoGame/GarfieldsFunFest'': The first level takes place around the grassy backyard of Garfield's house. He has to look for Odie as well as the keys of Jon's car to clear the level, and as he looks for them he has to move through tree branches, rooftops and fences. Spiders, dogs and mailmen appear as mooks.

** The respective areas of the Hungover and Windy chapters. Since the latter serves as the game's HubLevel, it overlaps with other settings, such as UnderTheSea, AbsurdlySpaciousSewer, a scatological DeathMountain and HornetHole.

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogChaos'': Mecha Green Hill is a GreenHillZone ''mechanised'' by Eggman, with polluted streams choked with oil and chemicals, and [[MadeOfExplodium exploding coconuts falling from mechanized palm trees]]. Complete with a reworked version of the music from the previous game's ''Green Hills''. The Japanese ''Sonic CD'' theme was also a reworked version of ''Green Hills''.

* ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'''s iconic track High Speed Ring appears in every games but ''GT Sport''. Said track is surrounded with grass and hills around and it's usually your very first track to race.

* ''VideoGame/SongsForAHero'': This is the main setting of the first level of the world, and like many other aspects of the game, pays homage and parodies VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog. The first part is called "greenish hills" and follows the conventions of the trope more directly, while the second act is a bit more visually distinct, getting a more fall-inspired orange and brown color palette, and the final act happens on a castle of said hills.

** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'': The subseries has this in all of its games as World 1, known as Acorn Plains in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' and by extension ''VideoGame/NewSuperLuigiU''. Features include slopes, rolling terrain, calcified peaks in the background and some high-altitude areas filled with mushroom platforms.

** ''VideoGame/SonicSuperstars'': Bridge Island Zone is the first overall level of the game, having checkerboard tiles reminiscent of Green Hill but colored blue.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'': Insectia, a grassland level which is obviously full of insect Mooks (and the occasional snail).

* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': The starting zone is All-Mother's Embrace, a lush and verdant green valley full of plants and natural wildlife. It features basic crafting ingredients in large amounts and weak enemies who don't need complicated tactics to defeat.

** ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'': starts out as a textbook example of this, [[SubvertedTrope until halfway through the first act]], when the miniboss sets the place ablaze.

** ''VideoGame/SonicRushSeries'': Plant Kingdom from ''Sonic Rush Adventure'' is a mix of this and PalmtreePanic. As is Leaf Storm in ''Sonic Rush'' to a lesser extent.

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* ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' starts you off in the Artisan world, a land of green rolling hills covered in sheep and fairytale castles. The world's HubLevel and the first proper level, Stone Hill, play it the straightest, with the remainder of the levels putting their own spins on it such as taking place in the middle of the night or in a European-style town with cobblestone paving.

*** The Sega Genesis version throws a little twist on the "Green Hill" trope in the Hill Top Zone. It is the fifth zone in the game, and combines it with LethalLavaLand and DeathMountain. A more stereotypical example in the same game would be Emerald Hill Zone, the first zone in the game..

* ''VideoGame/SonicDrift:''
** In the original game, the TropeNamer appears as the first track of all three [=GPs=], differing only in layout.
** In ''Sonic Drift 2'', [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Emerald Hill Zone]] appears as the first track of the Purple GP, and the sixth and final track of the white GP.

* ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' starts you off in the Artisan world, a land of rolling hills and fairytale castles. The world's HubLevel and the first proper level, Stone Hill, play it the straightest, with the remainder of the levels putting their own spins on it such as taking place in the middle of the night or in a European-style town with cobblestone paving.

** The first level of ''Klonoa: Door to Phantomile'' fits this exactly. Lush fields, simple gameplay, and overall idyllic.
** The first level of ''Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil'' is an inversion, however: it's a rocky and cliffy area, set in the middle of a huge storm.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonSleep'', Greengrass Isle is your starting location for sleep research, where a wide variety Pokémon reside, especially Grass-types.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonSleep'', Greengrass Isle is your starting location for sleep research, where most Grass-type Pokémon reside.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

[-[[caption-width-right:349:''[[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor "It's mild and pleasant here all year round. I love it! Doesn't it feel nice?"]]''\\
[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]] ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'', ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''[[/labelnote]]]]-]

[[note]]Top-left, clockwise: ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'', ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''[[/note]]]]-]

-->-- '''Description of Green Greens''', ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' instruction manual.

-->-- ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' manual's description of Green Greens.