History Main / MacroZone

** The TropeNamer, ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins''. The world map shows Mario entering the Macro Zone through a cave system that shrinks him on the way towards the house.
** The first ''VideoGame/{{Paper Mario|64}}'' has Shy Guy's Toy Box, which shrinks Mario as he jumps inside it.

** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'': Bowser uses his Minimizer to shrink Mario and his friends, so they have to travel to Bowser's castle to defeat Bowser and reverse the spell. In keeping with the game's theme of Mario and his friends being shrunken, the five boards are [[GreenHillZone Wiggler's Garden]], [[BandLand Toadette's Music Room]], [[JungleJapes DK's Stone Statue]], [[HauntedHouse Kamek's Library]], and [[PinballZone Bowser's Pinball Machine]]. Several minigames also take place within mundane, normal-sized objects or locations that only seem big due to the main characters' reduced size.

* ''[[VideoGame/BrambleTheMountainKing Bramble: The Mountain King]]'', a platformer where you're a young boy in a series of hills inhabited by giant trolls. Naturally, everything is giant-sized, which the poster and promotional materials highlights.

** ''Super Mario Land 2'' does both version of this trope, mixing it with other settings. One level is a gigantic tree, the [[TreeTrunkTour Tree Zone]], in which Mario must battle oversized insects, and another level, known as the [[EternalEngine Mario Zone]], is a mechanical statue of Mario inhabited by larger-than-life toys and moving parts.
** Tiny-Huge Island in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. There are two versions of the level, one where everything is tiny, and the other, where everything is much larger, with no properly-scaled option. The two sizes can be switched via the pipes throughout the level.
** The ToyTime Galaxy in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' is a unique flavor of Macro Zone, taking place on a series of oversized toys floating in space in what appears to be a gigantic playroom.
** Supermassive Galaxy from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', a probable nod to the abundance of this trope in the ''Mario'' series. It is the first level of World 4, which is analoguous to ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' having Giant Land as its own World 4.

** The Sacred Forest in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'' has areas where everything is massive compared to Mario, and areas where Mario is the giant. The changes in size were caused by Kamek's magic changing the sizes of each area.

** Part of Cloud Cuckooland in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' takes place inside a giant trash can filled with oversized trash.
** Logbox 720 in ''Nuts & Bolts'' is the innards of a giant Xbox 360 pastiche.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Certain stages have all the characters and items suddenly become a lot smaller. Sometimes this is done to fit with the source material (like for stages based on ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'') and sometimes it's done for gameplay purposes (like the ''VideoGame/{{Nintendogs}}'' and [[VideoGame/WarioWare Gamer]] stages, which take place in areas that would be far too cramped if the characters were regular size).

** One of the [=DLC=] tracks in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' is [[VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit GBA Ribbon Road]], which now takes place in a child's bedroom, much like Toy Time Galaxy. Wave 5 of the Booster Course Pass introduces a brand new track called Squeaky Clean Sprint, which takes place in a giant bathroom.

** One of the [=DLC=] tracks in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' is [[VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit GBA Ribbon Road]], which now takes place in a child's bedroom, much like Toy Time Galaxy. Wave 5 of the Booster Course Pack introduces a brand new track called Squeaky Clean Sprint, which takes place in a giant bathroom.

** One of the [=DLC=] tracks in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' is [[VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit GBA Ribbon Road]], which now takes place in a child's bedroom, much like Toy Time Galaxy.

* The premise of the ''VideoGame/MicroMachines'' games, based on the miniature toy cars, is racing in environments such as a garden, a tub, and on a pool table.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' games sometimes include Sparx Worlds, where the little dragonfly sidekick goes off by himself; in these, the enemies are spiders or other "big" bugs that Spyro could probably eat with one bite, but Sparx needs to shoot.

** Done as a NostalgiaLevel for World 6 of ''VideoGame/MarioAdventure'', which is made of giant-sized Nostalgia Levels.
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'' Bowser uses his Minimizer to shrink Mario and his friends, so they have to travel to Bowser's castle to defeat Bowser and reverse the spell. In keeping with the game's theme of Mario and his friends being shrunken, the five boards are [[GreenHillZone Wiggler's Garden]], [[BandLand Toadette's Music Room]], [[JungleJapes DK's Stone Statue]], [[HauntedHouse Kamek's Library]], and [[PinballZone Bowser's Pinball Machine]].

* In ''VideoGame/LandOfIllusion Starring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'', Mickey can gain the ability to shrink and sneak through small tunnels once he recovers the Shrinking Potion from the [[HauntedCastle Castle Ruins]]. Sometimes, he can use this to quickly go over blocks that the game expects him to pick up and throw out of the way.

** In ''VideoGame/MarioParty DS'', Bowser uses his Minimizer to shrink Mario and his friends, so they have to travel to Bowser's castle to defeat Bowser and reverse the spell. In keeping with the game's theme of Mario and his friends being shrunken, the five boards are [[GreenHillZone Wiggler's Garden]], [[BandLand Toadette's Music Room]], [[JungleJapes DK's Stone Statue]], [[HauntedHouse Kamek's Library]], and [[PinballZone Bowser's Pinball Machine]].

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' has Sora, Donald and Goofy transforming into action figures while visiting the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Box]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' ''Video Game'' features a bonus area set in a real-life kid's bedroom where your characters are the size of an actual LEGO minifigure. [[spoiler:Specifically, it belongs to Finn, the child "controlling" Emmet and friends who was AdaptedOut of the video game]].

* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' has the Den of Behemoths, a larger version of the Garden of Silence that features enemies from earlier parts of the game, just gigantic. Even the treasure chests are bigger. The staged-up enemies lead to entertainingly glitchy visual interactions with some shards, like how Shurikens will quintuple in size upon hitting their target.

* ''VideoGame/HarleysHumongousAdventure''

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' and its sequels, which feature a tiny race trying to survive in the undergrowth. In fact, the instruction booklet for both of the games in the series shows Captain Olimar to be around the size of a US Quarter. Without his helmet and its tall antenna, he's three-quarters of an inch tall. The Pikmin themselves are around the size of pennies, including their "stem."

* For an ''in-universe'' example, one of the stages in the game in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase'' is set inside of a house where the characters are shrunk down.

An area in a video game where your character is tiny relative to his surroundings. The environment is usually some mundane area like a garden that is rendered interesting by the change in scale. Enemies are more often than not giant insects or old fashioned windup toys. [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Natural hazards like thorns, giant feet, bouncing balls, and frayed electrical wires are everywhere]] in these small scale environments.