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* The Puzzle Branch of the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' [[VideoGame/MinecraftAdventureMaps adventure map]] ''Diversity'' has a section where you need to enter the right doors in sequence, according to a cryptic code.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'' has a set of Magical Mystery Doors about two-thirds of the way through the game. While you're struggling to determine which door will end [[ThatOneLevel the pain]], you'll be fighting [[LivingClothes animated pairs of pants]] with a [[BatterUp baseball bat]]. Yes, it's ''[[WidgetSeries that]]'' kind of game.

* Nearly every ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' game, including some of the spinoffs, have a Magical Mystery Teleport Tiles section somewhere, usually in the bad guy's hideout, such as:
** The Psychic Gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''/''Yellow'' (and later repeated in ''[=FireRed= / =LeafGreen=]''), where there are nine rooms, the entrance and the leader have one teleporter each, and the rest have four, each going to a separate room. Oh, and all those other rooms? Each has a Jr. Trainer. Strangely, you can brute-force the tiles by just going to the one on the same side as you, avoiding the line-of-sight of each trainer, getting to Sabrina easily.

* Ah, ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' and its Magical Mystery Warp Tiles.
** Subverted in that there is no "right way out"; getting lost in the maze of doors is itself the objective.

* ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' has the planet Skyhigh in "Milky Way Wishes".

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', you must go through Magical Mystery Corridors in the Wind Fish's Egg to get to the final boss. Fortunately, you can find a book in the library that tells you the exact order in which you must take each path to reach it (it's randomized each playthrough, but consistent for that playthrough).

* The final stage of the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' has pipes that operate this way: Each area has several pipes, one of which will take you onward, and the rest of which will take you back to the beginning of the level. There's actually a subtle clue there, though... [[spoiler: it's always the pipe after the pool of lava.]]

** Several of the Ghost Houses in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', especially the last one.
** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'': There's a section of the game where you're perplexed by a series of doors. The only way to discover where they lead is to test each and every one of them. Fortunately, it's much shorter than most Magical Mystery Doors segments tend to be in NES games.

** Big Boo Battle in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'' was this trope. You had to basically follow King Boo's EvilLaugh to find the right path to his boss arena.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', the first fortress of World 3 has several doors that drop you into water, leaving you to swim back to the only door you can reach from here, which returns you to the beginning of the area.

** A minigame in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 4'' had this with the pipes, too.
** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has this in the second world. Oh, and there's the added bonus of a '''''literal''''' DemonicSpider with NighInvulnerability that comes to kill you if you stay in one room too long. The rooms are often hard to navigate.
*** The first two games in the ''Paper Mario'' series also had this in the final dungeon. Both times there were two floors, and on both sides of each room, there was one door on each floor, making three doors to choose from when you ignore the door you just came out of. The solution was the same in both games: [[spoiler: It's always the door with a lit torch next to it, and it's always on the right side.]]

* ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'' has a set of Magical Mystery Doors about two-thirds of the way through the game. While you're struggling to determine which door will end [[ThatOneLevel the pain]], you'll be fighting [[DancingPants animated pairs of pants]] with a [[BatterUp baseball bat]]. Yes, it's ''[[WidgetSeries that]]'' kind of game.

A recurring StockVideoGamePuzzle of the eight-bit NES era, it is the PlatformGame equivalent of TheMaze. The player will be placed in a small room littered with doors. Entering a door will lead him to another room packed with doors, or a dead end, or the start of the stage, or a small moon orbiting Jupiter. Generally, only one door in a far-away, hard to reach room will be the "correct" door that leads the player out of the maze. Be sure to keep your eyes open for little pickups to find for HundredPercentCompletion in case several of those are lying somewhere in a dead end.

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'''s desert monkey maze, with monkeys blocking hallways demanding various foods and trinkets before they will move out of the way, just so you can get to another room with [[ChainOfDeals more monkeys demanding more trinkets that are located in a hallway guarded by some other monkey.]]
** ''VideoGame/{{Mother 1}}'' had Rosemary Manor, each room had two doors, both doors leading to a long hallway with stairs, leading to ANOTHER room with two doors. If the player takes the right path, it will lead them to a haunted piano.