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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler: Ingo from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'''s Battle Subway]] ends up in Hisui through the rift in spacetime [[TrappedInAnotherWorld like the player]], [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration over 100 years]] [[DistantPrequel in the past]]. Since he lost his memory in the fall he doesn't have much trouble fitting in after being taken in by the Pearl clan, [[spoiler: although he makes the occasional odd train reference]]. Soon afterward he recovers part of his memory and recounts the joys of being a Trainer and bonding with Pokémon through battling to the people of the past.
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler: Ingo from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'''s Battle Subway]] ends up in Hisui through the rift in spacetime [[TrappedInAnotherWorld like the player]], [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration over 100 years]] [[DistantPrequel in the past]]. Since he lost his memory in the fall he doesn't have much trouble fitting in after being taken in by the Pearl clan, [[spoiler: although he makes the occasional odd train reference]]. Soon afterward he recovers part of his memory and recounts the joys of being a Trainer and bonding with Pokémon through battling to the people of the past. This later happens the other way around in ''Videogame/PokemonMasters'', where characters from Hisui end up getting timewarped to modern times.
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* ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyLostInTime'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyAndTazTimeBusters'' both have this trope as primary plot and game elements. In the former game, Bugs gets lost in time and has to journey through various eras of history so he can get home. The sequel ups it, though. Daffy accidentally causes Granny’s Time Regulator to go haywire and cause catastrophic damage to history, including flinging several characters from different eras across time. The "Lost in Time" characters are an optional side quest where Bugs and Taz will hit them to send them back to their proper eras. You don’t have to find them all, but the game’s true 100% ending where history is properly repaired will not take place if you don’t.
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* Would you ever believe ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has this in an extreme form? [[spoiler:''Continuum Shift: Extend'' gives us Makoto's story mode, ''Slight Hope''. The aforementioned Makoto Nanaya winds up falling into a dormant Cauldron in the Ikaruga ruins, and gets thrown out back at the events of ''Calamity Trigger'' -- '''[[AlternateTimeline during the]] ''[[AlternateTimeline Wheel of Fortune]]'' [[AlternateTimeline timeline]]'''! Makoto has no role in NOL Intelligence or Sector Seven, her best friend Noel ''does not exist'', and the only folks who have any idea what the hell she's going on about are Hazama, Relius, Kokonoe, and Rachel. In the bad ending Relius finds her first and... [[TearJerker the rest]] [[MindRape is best]] [[MoralEventHorizon/VideoGames left unsaid]]. In the good ending, Rachel helps her back to the active timeline.]]
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* Would you ever believe ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' has this in an extreme form? [[spoiler:''Continuum Shift: [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]: Extend'' gives us Makoto's story mode, ''Slight Hope''. The aforementioned Makoto Nanaya winds up falling into a dormant Cauldron in the Ikaruga ruins, and gets thrown out back at the events of ''Calamity Trigger'' ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger Calamity Trigger]]'' -- '''[[AlternateTimeline during the]] ''[[AlternateTimeline Wheel of Fortune]]'' [[AlternateTimeline timeline]]'''! Makoto has no role in NOL Intelligence or Sector Seven, her best friend Noel ''does not exist'', and the only folks who have any idea what the hell she's going on about are Hazama, Relius, Kokonoe, and Rachel. In the bad ending Relius finds her first and... [[TearJerker the rest]] [[MindRape the rest is best]] [[MoralEventHorizon/VideoGames best left unsaid]]. In the good ending, Rachel helps her back to the active timeline.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Undertow}}:'' {{Pun}} aside (due to the aquatic features on their feet and hands), the Atlanteans spent centuries under the ice before the Elect inadvertently unfroze them, and they are eager to reclaim their dominion over mankind.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Undertow}}:'' ''VideoGame/UndertowChairEntertainment'': {{Pun}} aside (due to the aquatic features on their feet and hands), the Atlanteans spent centuries under the ice before the Elect inadvertently unfroze them, and they are eager to reclaim their dominion over mankind.
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* Played with in the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kiryu Kazuma, who was imprisoned for 10 years in 1995. Once he's released in 2005, he notes that a lot has changed, at least in the Yakuza world.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. When he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it. He can't even get his old ''haircut'' back since current hairdressers no longer know how to do punch perms and got his signature WildHair as a result of a botched attempt.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kiryu Kazuma, who was imprisoned for 10 years in 1995. Once he's released in 2005, he notes that a lot has changed, at least in the Yakuza world.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. When he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it. He can't even get his old ''haircut'' back since current hairdressers no longer know how to do punch perms and got his signature WildHair as a result of a botched attempt.
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* Played with in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kiryu Kazuma, who was imprisoned for 10 years in 1995. Once he's released in 2005, he notes that a lot has changed, at least in the Yakuza world.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. When he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it. He can't even get his old ''haircut'' back since current hairdressers no longer know how to do punch perms and got his signature WildHair as a result of a botched attempt.
* In ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'', Rextro Sixtyfourus is an N64-era character in a modern game. As this is a game where [[MediumAwareness everyone knows they are in a game]], much of the jokes involving him are about the characters being confused by him talking about things such as cheat codes which modern games don't have, as well as him being confused by things modern games do, such as online multiplayer. He ends up taking a class to familiarize himself with modern game design, but unfortunately for everyone else it ended up being mostly about microtransactions.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kiryu Kazuma, who was imprisoned for 10 years in 1995. Once he's released in 2005, he notes that a lot has changed, at least in the Yakuza world.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. When he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it. He can't even get his old ''haircut'' back since current hairdressers no longer know how to do punch perms and got his signature WildHair as a result of a botched attempt.
* In ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'', Rextro Sixtyfourus is an N64-era character in a modern game. As this is a game where [[MediumAwareness everyone knows they are in a game]], much of the jokes involving him are about the characters being confused by him talking about things such as cheat codes which modern games don't have, as well as him being confused by things modern games do, such as online multiplayer. He ends up taking a class to familiarize himself with modern game design, but unfortunately for everyone else it ended up being mostly about microtransactions.
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** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kiryu Kazuma, who was imprisoned for 10 years in 1995. Once he's released in 2005, he notes that a lot has changed, at least in the Yakuza world.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. When he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it. He can't even get his old ''haircut'' back since current hairdressers no longer know how to do punch perms and got his signature WildHair as a result of a botched attempt.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': The PlayerCharacter is established to have been pulled from the modern day real world into the medieval-esque ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' universe against their will. Some of the other characters ask the player about their homeworld, and find the concepts of "buildings that scrape the sky" and "metallic non-horse-drawn wagons" to be amusing.
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** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': The PlayerCharacter is established to have been pulled from the modern day real world into the medieval-esque ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' universe against their will. Some of the other characters ask the player about their homeworld, and find the concepts of "buildings that scrape the sky" and "metallic non-horse-drawn wagons" to beamusing.amusing.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'' is about an ancient hero named Alear entering a coma, and then awakening 1000 years later. Although they don’t remember much about their past, the game is about Alear dealing with being hailed as this ancient legendary hero.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': The PlayerCharacter is established to have been pulled from the modern day real world into the medieval-esque ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' universe against their will. Some of the other characters ask the player about their homeworld, and find the concepts of "buildings that scrape the sky" and "metallic non-horse-drawn wagons" to be
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'' is about an ancient hero named Alear entering a coma, and then awakening 1000 years later. Although they don’t remember much about their past, the game is about Alear dealing with being hailed as this ancient legendary hero.
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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': The BigBad of the ''Legacy'' DLC, Corypheus, has been sealed away since the time of the first Blight. When he's finally unsealed, he's a little confused about how empty his surroundings are; weren't the Deep Roads part of the Dwarven Empire?
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* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' this is Inverted. When Johnny Silverhand returns to Night City after 50 years of absence, he is disturbed by how ''little'' has changed, seeing this as further proof that the corporations have managed to stamp out human creativity and individuality.
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* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' this is Inverted. Inverted in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''. When Johnny Silverhand returns to Night City after a 50 years of year absence, he is disturbed by how ''little'' has changed, seeing this as further proof that the corporations have managed to stamp out human creativity and individuality.
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** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. And when he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it.
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** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. And when When he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it.it. He can't even get his old ''haircut'' back since current hairdressers no longer know how to do punch perms and got his signature WildHair as a result of a botched attempt.
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* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
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* Played with in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kiryu Kazuma, who was imprisoned for 10 years in 1995. Once he's released in 2005, he notes that a lot has changed, at least in the Yakuza world.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' has Kiryu Kazuma, who was imprisoned for 10 years in 1995. Once he's released in 2005, he notes that a lot has changed, at least in the Yakuza world.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
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* Meta-example: There have been a few video game consoles that have exhibited this trope, by way of lasting far long than their contemporaries in an industry where successor hardware comes out every five to seven years. The most noteworthy example of this being Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles in Brazil, especially the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem. The system was introduced in 1989 by distributor Tectoy, and over three decades later, it is not only still being sold long after Sega had dropped out of the hardware race, but also continues to sell competitively against modern gaming systems.
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* Meta-example: There have been a few video game consoles that have exhibited this trope, by way of lasting far long longer than their contemporaries in an industry where successor hardware comes out every five to seven five-to-seven years. The most noteworthy example of this being Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles in Brazil, especially the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem. The system was introduced in 1989 by distributor Tectoy, and over three decades later, it is not only still being sold long after Sega had dropped out of the hardware race, but also continues to sell competitively against modern gaming systems.
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* Judd the cat from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' is one of only two known mammals in a setting that's otherwise primarily populated by sapient non-mammalian sea creatures. As it turns out, this is because [[spoiler:Judd was one of the few land animals (if not the ''only'') to survive the catastrophic flooding that wiped out humanity 12,000 years before the start of the game, thanks to his owner sealing him in cyrostasis for 10,000 years]].
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* Judd the cat from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' is one of only two known mammals (the other being his own clone) in a setting that's otherwise primarily populated by sapient non-mammalian sea creatures. As it turns out, this is because [[spoiler:Judd was one of the few land animals (if not the ''only'') to survive the catastrophic flooding that wiped out humanity 12,000 years before the start of the game, thanks to his owner sealing him in cyrostasis cryostasis for 10,000 years]].
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* In ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'', [[spoiler:BarrierMaiden Miyuki was [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in the Digital World]] since the 1970s as TheAgeless EmptyShell. When she gets her soul back and returns to the human world with her [[BigLittleBrother now-elderly younger brother]], she's fascinated by things like flatscreen [=TVs=] and computers]].
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* [[spoiler: Dana]] from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'' is actually from the 1500s, but she doesn't know that due to [[spoiler: Homunculus switching her with Margarette when they were babies so that Dana is moved ahead to the present time while Margarette takes her place in the distant past.]] They mention that they feel like something is missing from their life and they feel quite lost, which is due to them not knowing about their actual origins from the past. When they get transported to the distant past, they adapt to the time period very quickly and some endings has them staying in the past where they truly belong.
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* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Princess Zelda]] as she appears in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series. Especially in ''Brawl'''s adventure mode, when she just stands on Meta-Knight's ship while getting hit by Fox's cruiser.
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* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Princess Zelda]] as she appears in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series. Especially in ''Brawl'''s adventure mode, when she just stands on Meta-Knight's Meta Knight's ship while getting hit by Fox's cruiser.
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* Meta-example: There have been a few video game consoles that have exhibited this trope, by way of lasting far long than their contemporaries in an industry where successor hardware comes out every five to seven years. The most noteworthy example of this being Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles in Brazil, especially the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem. The system was introduced in 1989 by distributor Tectoy, and over three decades later, it is not only still being sold long after Sega had dropped out of the hardware race, but also continues to sell competitively against modern systems gaming systems.
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* Meta-example: There have been a few video game consoles that have exhibited this trope, by way of lasting far long than their contemporaries in an industry where successor hardware comes out every five to seven years. The most noteworthy example of this being Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles in Brazil, especially the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem. The system was introduced in 1989 by distributor Tectoy, and over three decades later, it is not only still being sold long after Sega had dropped out of the hardware race, but also continues to sell competitively against modern systems gaming systems.
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* Meta-example: By technicality, there There have been a few video game consoles that have exhibited this trope. By trope, by way of lasting far long than their contemporaries in an industry where successor hardware comes out every five to seven years. The most noteworthy example of this being Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles in Brazil, especially the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem. The system was introduced in 1989 by distributor Tectoy, and over three decades later later, it is not only still being sold long after Sega had dropped out of the hardware race, but also selling continues to sell competitively against then-modern modern systems like the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4.gaming systems.
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* Meta-example: There have been '''''a few video game consoles''''' that exhibited this trope -- Creator/{{Sony}}'s [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation first]] [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 two]] Play-Station video game consoles, as well as Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} and UsefulNotes/NintendoDS systems, which outlasted the generations they were first introduced. As video games advanced to the next generation, it's safe to say that a good number of people felt that these systems were quite démodé and unfitting with the passing times in spite of their continued survival.
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* Meta-example: There By technicality, there have been '''''a a few video game consoles''''' consoles that have exhibited this trope -- Creator/{{Sony}}'s [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation first]] [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 two]] Play-Station video game consoles, as well as Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} trope. By way of lasting far long than their contemporaries in an industry where successor hardware comes out every five to seven years. The most noteworthy example of this being Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles in Brazil, especially the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem. The system was introduced in 1989 by distributor Tectoy, and UsefulNotes/NintendoDS systems, which outlasted three decades later it is not only still being sold long after Sega had dropped out of the generations they were first introduced. As video games advanced to the next generation, it's safe to say that a good number of people felt that these hardware race, but also selling competitively against then-modern systems were quite démodé and unfitting with like the passing times in spite of their continued survival.UsefulNotes/PlayStation4.
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler: Ingo from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'''s Battle Subway]] ends up in Hisui through the rift in spacetime [[TrappedInAnotherWorld like the player]], [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration over 100 years]] [[DistantPrequel in the past]]. Since he lost his memory in the fall he doesn't have much trouble fitting in after being taken in by the Pearl clan, [[spoiler: although he makes the occasional odd train reference]].
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler: Ingo from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'''s Battle Subway]] ends up in Hisui through the rift in spacetime [[TrappedInAnotherWorld like the player]], [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration over 100 years]] [[DistantPrequel in the past]]. Since he lost his memory in the fall he doesn't have much trouble fitting in after being taken in by the Pearl clan, [[spoiler: although he makes the occasional odd train reference]]. Soon afterward he recovers part of his memory and recounts the joys of being a Trainer and bonding with Pokémon through battling to the people of the past.
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler: Ingo from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'''s Battle Subway]] ends up in Hisui through the rift in spacetime [[TrappedInAnotherWorld like the player]], [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration 200 years]] [[DistantPrequel in the past]]. Since he lost his memory in the fall he doesn't have much trouble fitting in after being taken in by the Pearl clan, [[spoiler: although he makes the occasional odd train reference]].
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler: Ingo from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'''s Battle Subway]] ends up in Hisui through the rift in spacetime [[TrappedInAnotherWorld like the player]], [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration 200 over 100 years]] [[DistantPrequel in the past]]. Since he lost his memory in the fall he doesn't have much trouble fitting in after being taken in by the Pearl clan, [[spoiler: although he makes the occasional odd train reference]].
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* Meta-example: There have been '''''a few video game consoles''''' that exhibited this trope -- Creator/{{Sony}}'s [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation first]] [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 two]] Play-Station video game consoles, as well as Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} and UsefulNotes/NintendoDS systems, which outlasted the generations they were first introduced. As video games advanced to the next generation, it's safe to say that a good number of people felt that these systems were quite démodé and unfitting with the passing times in spite of their continued survival.
* King Malinus from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' returns to life after being dead for centuries only to find his once beautiful kingdom gone. He goes berserk and tries to find someone to blame for its destruction. He refuses to accept [[PlayerCharacter your]] explanation that no one is to blame; that time takes all things. He even attacks you thinking you are responsible. He calms down after you defeat him and then wonders what he should do now. Fortunately, his Moglin assistant (who survived all this time thanks to his healing magic) comforts him by telling Malinus that he has many descendants still alive and that his vanished kingdom acted as the foundation for the present civilization. You throw in your two cents by suggesting that Malinus could be a hero again since Lore will always need more heroes. Malinus takes your words to heart and offers as a reward a spell to summon him in battle.
* In ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'', the titular Akatsuki spends 50 years trapped in the Arctic Pole as a HumanPopsicle and the action of the game is kickstarted when he wakes up from such a "sleep". He deals with this trope by restarting the mission he was given before being frozen and kicking the asses of anyone who gets in his way...
* Would you ever believe ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has this in an extreme form? [[spoiler:''Continuum Shift: Extend'' gives us Makoto's story mode, ''Slight Hope''. The aforementioned Makoto Nanaya winds up falling into a dormant Cauldron in the Ikaruga ruins, and gets thrown out back at the events of ''Calamity Trigger'' -- '''[[AlternateTimeline during the]] ''[[AlternateTimeline Wheel of Fortune]]'' [[AlternateTimeline timeline]]'''! Makoto has no role in NOL Intelligence or Sector Seven, her best friend Noel ''does not exist'', and the only folks who have any idea what the hell she's going on about are Hazama, Relius, Kokonoe, and Rachel. In the bad ending Relius finds her first and... [[TearJerker the rest]] [[MindRape is best]] [[MoralEventHorizon/VideoGames left unsaid]]. In the good ending, Rachel helps her back to the active timeline.]]
* Rather the point of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. The characters of the story tend to take this in stride, with a few exceptions.
** When Crono, Marle, and Lucca end up in [[AfterTheEnd 2300 A.D.]], they are shocked and horrified by the nature of their future.
--->'''Marle''': It's like another world...
** The results of the Ocean Palace Disaster displaces four characters who have no way back, specifically[[spoiler: Melchior, Gaspar and Belthasar, the three sages, in addition to the young Janus, who became Magus. Belthasar was the only one to try to make a way back, but he died of old age by the time he finished his time machine. The other three made new lives for themselves when they ended up.]]
** After the party defeats Magus and screws up his summoning of Lavos, the resulting time distortions displace Magus [[spoiler: ''again'']] and he ends up in his own past, where he acts as a prophet (using his knowledge of his own time period) to try for another swing at Lavos.
* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' this is Inverted. When Johnny Silverhand returns to Night City after 50 years of absence, he is disturbed by how ''little'' has changed, seeing this as further proof that the corporations have managed to stamp out human creativity and individuality.
* In ''[[VideoGame/DarkFall Dark Fall II: Lights Out]]'', Benjamin Parker travels into two different future eras and one period of the past. His confusion at seeing what's become of the lighthouse he'd been checking up on could fit this trope, even if he didn't get the chance to interact with people as a social FishOutOfWater. [[spoiler: Also applies to Malakai, an AI-controlled space probe from the future, that ended up in the distant past from a deep-space teleportation accident. Having [[AiIsACrapshoot gone a little insane]], Malakai had since been attempting to manipulate people into helping him return home, including Parker.]]
* Eirena the Enchantress in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', who was placed in a 1,500 year long slumber so that she can help the hero fight the forces of Hell.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' you can encounter Private First Class Dobbs, who was killed in battle prior to the [[WorldWarIII Great War]] and taken to the Sierra Army Depot to be immersed in a HealingVat in an attempt to revive him. When the [[PlayerCharacter Chosen One]] wakes him up in the present day, he doesn't realize the world's ended and runs off in an attempt to rejoin his unit only to melt into a puddle of goo due to [[CryonicsFailure "post-cryogenic syndrome"]].
** In the ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' you can meet people from across history who were cryogenically frozen by aliens, including a little girl from the early days after the Great War, a pre-war soldier, a cowboy, and a samurai.
** The [[PlayerCharacter Sole Survivor]] from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' was [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] on the day the bombs fell, and then thawed out two hundred years AfterTheEnd. They end up oscillating between this and ColdSleepColdFuture depending on the circumstances.
** There's also Curie, a medical robot [[spoiler: and later RobotGirl]] who spent the last two hundred years by herself running tests on mole rats until you find her. She doesn't quite grasp that civilization actually ended and has a tendency to ask if you're going to report attacking Super Mutants to the police or wonder where all the students are when you explore the burned-out ruins of MIT.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** We have Tidus from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', getting thrown approximately a thousand years into the future, where his home Zanarkland was destroyed by Sin. [[spoiler: Turns out that Tidus was a dream created by the fayth and that everything that he knew wasn't real.]]
** [[spoiler: Vanille and Fang]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' were TakenForGranite for 500 years and revived just before the start of the game.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' has a moment with Noel Kreiss, who comes from a distant future where there is no Cocoon in the sky and he's the last human left alive. He wonders at the sight of Cocoon when he goes five centuries backwards in time, and marvels at the population of New Bodhum (which apparently had more people than he'd EVER known in his lifetime). Seriously, the guy is even wowed that they're able to grow their own vegetables. Yes, his era sucked that much.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': The PlayerCharacter is established to have been pulled from the modern day real world into the medieval-esque ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' universe against their will. Some of the other characters ask the player about their homeworld, and find the concepts of "buildings that scrape the sky" and "metallic non-horse-drawn wagons" to be amusing.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
** The protagonist of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', Tommy Vercetti, had been sent to prison in 1971 and released in 1986, shortly before the game started. One of the people he does jobs for is a sleazy porn director who's shooting a pornographic parody of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. Tommy wonders to himself why anybody would go see a movie about fish. Tommy's fondness for Hawaiian shirts also leads to a few jokes that his stint in jail has left his fashion sense TwoDecadesBehind.
** Likewise, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' features a darker, less comedic application of this trope. Dwayne Forge, who had just been released from prison after several years, is shocked about how the drug business, which had once been a last-resort career track for those desperate to escape the ghetto, is now being presented by pop culture as something that black youth should aspire to making it big in.
* Axl Low from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has the [[BlessedWithSuck ability to randomly, and unwillingly, travel through time]], which leads to him being sent from our time to the post-apocalyptic world of the game. He takes it [[AngstWhatAngst extremely well]], holding his own against the rest of the fighters and even seeming to enjoy himself, but still devotes his time to returning to his girlfriend, Megumi.
* In ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver'', when Raziel is revived as a wraith and re-enters the physical world, he's shocked to see how much Nosgoth has changed since he's been gone; the vampires have all become ravenous, mutated beasts, and Kain's empire is derelict and ruined.
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDontDry'' has the protagonist somehow time-travel from the 1980s to 2018. Much of the humor deals with him attempting to deal with modern culture and technology.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** [[DownloadableContent Javik]] from ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' was [[HumanPopsicle frozen in cryostasis for 50,000 years]] and as a result is the last Prothean still alive. As a result, all his memories regarding the races who now rule the galaxy are from when they were little more than cavemen, which he is [[WhileYouWereInDiapers constantly pointing out]]... even when [[StealthInsult he's praising them]]. His reaction to the Salarians, one of the most smartest races and major powers in the current Cycle is to first express amazement that they managed to evolve ''at all'', before remarking that they used to eat flies and lick their own eyeballs.
** Downplayed with Commander Shepard in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', who ''died'' and subsequently spent the next two years (and twelve days) being brought back to life. Since it was only two years, it meant that aside from a few new technological advances, there was very little that actually changed in all that time, so they adapted quite quickly.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. Venom Snake [[spoiler:and the ''real'' Big Boss]] wakes up after a nine year coma in 1984 and is initally dazed. But thanks to Ocelot filling him in on current events, the nature of Diamond Dogs' operations and the fact that Venom doesn't really go to any major hub of pop culture, he manages to get by.
* This is the basis to the whole story in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege'', as main hero Samanosuke Akechi is sent 500 years forward into modern Paris, just as Jean-Jacques, based on actor Jean Reno, is sent back into Samanosuke's time in a crazy time-travel plot to resurrect Nobunaga. Both of them act properly befuddled by their surroundings, especially Samanosuke.
* To allow new players to enter the game without knowing the theme, ''VideoGame/{{Otherspace}}'' uses this trope to allow players to be from any era in human history, then suddenly be sucked into the game world.
* Jean Bison from ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' is this way by HumanPopsicle, being a frontiersman who continued his work in the present day. In his time, it was considered taming the wilderness. In the present, it's ecological warfare.
* The ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' takes place in the late 1500s. Most {{Guest Fighter}}s fit some variant of the trope; ComicBook/{{Spawn}}, [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Heihachi, and Jin]] come from the modern era and are Present to Past, [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS]], [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda, Darth Vader, the Apprentice]], and [[VideoGame/NierAutomata 2B]] come from futuristic worlds and are Future to Past, and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII Ezio]], [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Haohmaru]] come from the early 1500s, somewhere in the 400-300 BC range, and late 1700s respectively and are Past to Past.
* Judd the cat from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' is one of only two known mammals in a setting that's otherwise primarily populated by sapient non-mammalian sea creatures. As it turns out, this is because [[spoiler:Judd was one of the few land animals (if not the ''only'') to survive the catastrophic flooding that wiped out humanity 12,000 years before the start of the game, thanks to his owner sealing him in cyrostasis for 10,000 years]].
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'':
** The "The 2800" arc uses this to answer the question of what exactly happened to the 2,800 Dominion warships the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Prophets]] made vanish in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E06SacrificeOfAngels "Sacrifice of Angels"]]. Turns out they got time-shifted 35 years into the future and reappear out of nowhere in the middle of an international summit on the Borg problem. It takes a lot of talking before they even accept that this happened, and getting them to go away still entails a big space battle.
** The Federation temporal contact is a former ''Bozeman'' crewman (see the Live-Action TV entry for ''Star Trek''). He is well-adjusted when met (the game takes place some forty years after ''Bozeman'' was broken out of the loop), but notes that his experiences is one reason why he works for the Department of Temporal Investigations.
* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Princess Zelda]] as she appears in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series. Especially in ''Brawl'''s adventure mode, when she just stands on Meta-Knight's ship while getting hit by Fox's cruiser.
* Silas and Verna in ''VideoGame/TheTrailOfAnguish'' can't say exactly where they're from, from the museum exhibit suggests they're from a lost era.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertow}}:'' {{Pun}} aside (due to the aquatic features on their feet and hands), the Atlanteans spent centuries under the ice before the Elect inadvertently unfroze them, and they are eager to reclaim their dominion over mankind.
* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. And when he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it.
* In ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'', Rextro Sixtyfourus is an N64-era character in a modern game. As this is a game where [[MediumAwareness everyone knows they are in a game]], much of the jokes involving him are about the characters being confused by him talking about things such as cheat codes which modern games don't have, as well as him being confused by things modern games do, such as online multiplayer. He ends up taking a class to familiarize himself with modern game design, but unfortunately for everyone else it ended up being mostly about microtransactions.
* King Malinus from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' returns to life after being dead for centuries only to find his once beautiful kingdom gone. He goes berserk and tries to find someone to blame for its destruction. He refuses to accept [[PlayerCharacter your]] explanation that no one is to blame; that time takes all things. He even attacks you thinking you are responsible. He calms down after you defeat him and then wonders what he should do now. Fortunately, his Moglin assistant (who survived all this time thanks to his healing magic) comforts him by telling Malinus that he has many descendants still alive and that his vanished kingdom acted as the foundation for the present civilization. You throw in your two cents by suggesting that Malinus could be a hero again since Lore will always need more heroes. Malinus takes your words to heart and offers as a reward a spell to summon him in battle.
* In ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'', the titular Akatsuki spends 50 years trapped in the Arctic Pole as a HumanPopsicle and the action of the game is kickstarted when he wakes up from such a "sleep". He deals with this trope by restarting the mission he was given before being frozen and kicking the asses of anyone who gets in his way...
* Would you ever believe ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has this in an extreme form? [[spoiler:''Continuum Shift: Extend'' gives us Makoto's story mode, ''Slight Hope''. The aforementioned Makoto Nanaya winds up falling into a dormant Cauldron in the Ikaruga ruins, and gets thrown out back at the events of ''Calamity Trigger'' -- '''[[AlternateTimeline during the]] ''[[AlternateTimeline Wheel of Fortune]]'' [[AlternateTimeline timeline]]'''! Makoto has no role in NOL Intelligence or Sector Seven, her best friend Noel ''does not exist'', and the only folks who have any idea what the hell she's going on about are Hazama, Relius, Kokonoe, and Rachel. In the bad ending Relius finds her first and... [[TearJerker the rest]] [[MindRape is best]] [[MoralEventHorizon/VideoGames left unsaid]]. In the good ending, Rachel helps her back to the active timeline.]]
* Rather the point of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. The characters of the story tend to take this in stride, with a few exceptions.
** When Crono, Marle, and Lucca end up in [[AfterTheEnd 2300 A.D.]], they are shocked and horrified by the nature of their future.
--->'''Marle''': It's like another world...
** The results of the Ocean Palace Disaster displaces four characters who have no way back, specifically[[spoiler: Melchior, Gaspar and Belthasar, the three sages, in addition to the young Janus, who became Magus. Belthasar was the only one to try to make a way back, but he died of old age by the time he finished his time machine. The other three made new lives for themselves when they ended up.]]
** After the party defeats Magus and screws up his summoning of Lavos, the resulting time distortions displace Magus [[spoiler: ''again'']] and he ends up in his own past, where he acts as a prophet (using his knowledge of his own time period) to try for another swing at Lavos.
* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' this is Inverted. When Johnny Silverhand returns to Night City after 50 years of absence, he is disturbed by how ''little'' has changed, seeing this as further proof that the corporations have managed to stamp out human creativity and individuality.
* In ''[[VideoGame/DarkFall Dark Fall II: Lights Out]]'', Benjamin Parker travels into two different future eras and one period of the past. His confusion at seeing what's become of the lighthouse he'd been checking up on could fit this trope, even if he didn't get the chance to interact with people as a social FishOutOfWater. [[spoiler: Also applies to Malakai, an AI-controlled space probe from the future, that ended up in the distant past from a deep-space teleportation accident. Having [[AiIsACrapshoot gone a little insane]], Malakai had since been attempting to manipulate people into helping him return home, including Parker.]]
* Eirena the Enchantress in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', who was placed in a 1,500 year long slumber so that she can help the hero fight the forces of Hell.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' you can encounter Private First Class Dobbs, who was killed in battle prior to the [[WorldWarIII Great War]] and taken to the Sierra Army Depot to be immersed in a HealingVat in an attempt to revive him. When the [[PlayerCharacter Chosen One]] wakes him up in the present day, he doesn't realize the world's ended and runs off in an attempt to rejoin his unit only to melt into a puddle of goo due to [[CryonicsFailure "post-cryogenic syndrome"]].
** In the ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' you can meet people from across history who were cryogenically frozen by aliens, including a little girl from the early days after the Great War, a pre-war soldier, a cowboy, and a samurai.
** The [[PlayerCharacter Sole Survivor]] from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' was [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] on the day the bombs fell, and then thawed out two hundred years AfterTheEnd. They end up oscillating between this and ColdSleepColdFuture depending on the circumstances.
** There's also Curie, a medical robot [[spoiler: and later RobotGirl]] who spent the last two hundred years by herself running tests on mole rats until you find her. She doesn't quite grasp that civilization actually ended and has a tendency to ask if you're going to report attacking Super Mutants to the police or wonder where all the students are when you explore the burned-out ruins of MIT.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** We have Tidus from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', getting thrown approximately a thousand years into the future, where his home Zanarkland was destroyed by Sin. [[spoiler: Turns out that Tidus was a dream created by the fayth and that everything that he knew wasn't real.]]
** [[spoiler: Vanille and Fang]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' were TakenForGranite for 500 years and revived just before the start of the game.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' has a moment with Noel Kreiss, who comes from a distant future where there is no Cocoon in the sky and he's the last human left alive. He wonders at the sight of Cocoon when he goes five centuries backwards in time, and marvels at the population of New Bodhum (which apparently had more people than he'd EVER known in his lifetime). Seriously, the guy is even wowed that they're able to grow their own vegetables. Yes, his era sucked that much.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': The PlayerCharacter is established to have been pulled from the modern day real world into the medieval-esque ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' universe against their will. Some of the other characters ask the player about their homeworld, and find the concepts of "buildings that scrape the sky" and "metallic non-horse-drawn wagons" to be amusing.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
** The protagonist of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', Tommy Vercetti, had been sent to prison in 1971 and released in 1986, shortly before the game started. One of the people he does jobs for is a sleazy porn director who's shooting a pornographic parody of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. Tommy wonders to himself why anybody would go see a movie about fish. Tommy's fondness for Hawaiian shirts also leads to a few jokes that his stint in jail has left his fashion sense TwoDecadesBehind.
** Likewise, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' features a darker, less comedic application of this trope. Dwayne Forge, who had just been released from prison after several years, is shocked about how the drug business, which had once been a last-resort career track for those desperate to escape the ghetto, is now being presented by pop culture as something that black youth should aspire to making it big in.
* Axl Low from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has the [[BlessedWithSuck ability to randomly, and unwillingly, travel through time]], which leads to him being sent from our time to the post-apocalyptic world of the game. He takes it [[AngstWhatAngst extremely well]], holding his own against the rest of the fighters and even seeming to enjoy himself, but still devotes his time to returning to his girlfriend, Megumi.
* In ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver'', when Raziel is revived as a wraith and re-enters the physical world, he's shocked to see how much Nosgoth has changed since he's been gone; the vampires have all become ravenous, mutated beasts, and Kain's empire is derelict and ruined.
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDontDry'' has the protagonist somehow time-travel from the 1980s to 2018. Much of the humor deals with him attempting to deal with modern culture and technology.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** [[DownloadableContent Javik]] from ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' was [[HumanPopsicle frozen in cryostasis for 50,000 years]] and as a result is the last Prothean still alive. As a result, all his memories regarding the races who now rule the galaxy are from when they were little more than cavemen, which he is [[WhileYouWereInDiapers constantly pointing out]]... even when [[StealthInsult he's praising them]]. His reaction to the Salarians, one of the most smartest races and major powers in the current Cycle is to first express amazement that they managed to evolve ''at all'', before remarking that they used to eat flies and lick their own eyeballs.
** Downplayed with Commander Shepard in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', who ''died'' and subsequently spent the next two years (and twelve days) being brought back to life. Since it was only two years, it meant that aside from a few new technological advances, there was very little that actually changed in all that time, so they adapted quite quickly.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. Venom Snake [[spoiler:and the ''real'' Big Boss]] wakes up after a nine year coma in 1984 and is initally dazed. But thanks to Ocelot filling him in on current events, the nature of Diamond Dogs' operations and the fact that Venom doesn't really go to any major hub of pop culture, he manages to get by.
* This is the basis to the whole story in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege'', as main hero Samanosuke Akechi is sent 500 years forward into modern Paris, just as Jean-Jacques, based on actor Jean Reno, is sent back into Samanosuke's time in a crazy time-travel plot to resurrect Nobunaga. Both of them act properly befuddled by their surroundings, especially Samanosuke.
* To allow new players to enter the game without knowing the theme, ''VideoGame/{{Otherspace}}'' uses this trope to allow players to be from any era in human history, then suddenly be sucked into the game world.
* Jean Bison from ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' is this way by HumanPopsicle, being a frontiersman who continued his work in the present day. In his time, it was considered taming the wilderness. In the present, it's ecological warfare.
* The ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' takes place in the late 1500s. Most {{Guest Fighter}}s fit some variant of the trope; ComicBook/{{Spawn}}, [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Heihachi, and Jin]] come from the modern era and are Present to Past, [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS]], [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda, Darth Vader, the Apprentice]], and [[VideoGame/NierAutomata 2B]] come from futuristic worlds and are Future to Past, and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII Ezio]], [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Haohmaru]] come from the early 1500s, somewhere in the 400-300 BC range, and late 1700s respectively and are Past to Past.
* Judd the cat from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' is one of only two known mammals in a setting that's otherwise primarily populated by sapient non-mammalian sea creatures. As it turns out, this is because [[spoiler:Judd was one of the few land animals (if not the ''only'') to survive the catastrophic flooding that wiped out humanity 12,000 years before the start of the game, thanks to his owner sealing him in cyrostasis for 10,000 years]].
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'':
** The "The 2800" arc uses this to answer the question of what exactly happened to the 2,800 Dominion warships the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Prophets]] made vanish in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E06SacrificeOfAngels "Sacrifice of Angels"]]. Turns out they got time-shifted 35 years into the future and reappear out of nowhere in the middle of an international summit on the Borg problem. It takes a lot of talking before they even accept that this happened, and getting them to go away still entails a big space battle.
** The Federation temporal contact is a former ''Bozeman'' crewman (see the Live-Action TV entry for ''Star Trek''). He is well-adjusted when met (the game takes place some forty years after ''Bozeman'' was broken out of the loop), but notes that his experiences is one reason why he works for the Department of Temporal Investigations.
* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Princess Zelda]] as she appears in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series. Especially in ''Brawl'''s adventure mode, when she just stands on Meta-Knight's ship while getting hit by Fox's cruiser.
* Silas and Verna in ''VideoGame/TheTrailOfAnguish'' can't say exactly where they're from, from the museum exhibit suggests they're from a lost era.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertow}}:'' {{Pun}} aside (due to the aquatic features on their feet and hands), the Atlanteans spent centuries under the ice before the Elect inadvertently unfroze them, and they are eager to reclaim their dominion over mankind.
* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima was imprisoned in 1985, and finally [[GreatEscape escapes]] in 2010. As he wanders around Kamurocho, where he used to live, he makes numerous comments about how everything's changed, and he doesn't even know what a CD or DVD is.
** Ditto with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' and the main protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. He spends eighteen years in prison starting from 2001, and when he gets back to Kamurocho in 2019, he suffers from a nasty case of future shock when he sees all the modern tech around him. And when he eventually gets a smartphone, he has no clue how to use it.
* In ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'', Rextro Sixtyfourus is an N64-era character in a modern game. As this is a game where [[MediumAwareness everyone knows they are in a game]], much of the jokes involving him are about the characters being confused by him talking about things such as cheat codes which modern games don't have, as well as him being confused by things modern games do, such as online multiplayer. He ends up taking a class to familiarize himself with modern game design, but unfortunately for everyone else it ended up being mostly about microtransactions.
