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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII III]]'' has the "Liberty City Underworld", a small area with buildings where the opening cinematic takes place. It's accessible through the use of the "Dodo," a plane that, as the name implies, had its wings cut off after being confiscated from a drug-runner. It had just enough wing area left such that it could make short hops (the game's physics engine treated this as if it were a car going off a ramp in a really weird way) and a particularly skilled player might be able to successfully "fly" it to the Underworld.

* In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', the Astral Error is a secret area based on these, and it seems to be one in-universe as well. You can only find it by SequenceBreaking, and though there are no enemies in there (save one), the strange music and visual glitches are enough to make it very unsettling. Even Catie’s sprite begins to bug out as you progress deeper, until she’s literally just a mess of random pixels. At the end, you come face-to-face with [[GlitchEntity not_intended]], one of the hardest BonusBoss fights in the game.

** Falling into the skybox in the sequel normally registers as a BottomlessPit death, but with a certain glitch, you can survive the fall and drive around in the void.

* The buggy ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor (2010)'' has a huge glitch that can turn an entire level into Minus World (the floors disappear), allowing you to fall into the skybox (which is a BottomlessPit).

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', at the beginning of Flame Mammoth's stage, it's possible to climb up the vents and walk on top of the ceiling. Going right onwards from there leads the player into a glitched version of the second area, with an improper background palette and the lower half of the chamber becoming a BottomlessPit due to the camera scroll boundaries not being set properly. Additionally, the Sub-Tank, if not collected yet, has a glitched sprite.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' does the same, and some of the largest levels have enormous rooms filled with ''hundreds'' of monsters to teleport around. Occasionally the architecture that moves them into the teleporters glitches out, leaving a couple monsters unteleported, simply sitting there; in those instances, noclipping inside the rooms is the only way to get 100% kills.
** Speaking of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', in it and other 2.5D shooters noclipping out of the map will cause the Hall of Mirrors effect where everything repeats.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' games you can find each level's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybox_(video_games) skybox]] by using a noclip cheat. If you then use the spawn cheat to put monsters into these rooms and return to the regular level the spawned beasts will appear huge, filling the sky! However, since you and the monster are further away than it seems, you cannot affect each other. Phew.
** The above can be done about the same in all games made in the [[Creator/ValveSoftware Source Engine]], and can be helpful for ragdoll posing in VideoGame/GarrysMod.

** Shared between ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', ''Twilight Princess'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' (as they share a similar engine) is a glitch dubbed "Back in Time", which allows Link to explore the map featured on each game's respective title screen by resetting the game at a specific moment during a death animation or game over screen. This trick is fairly benign in the first two games, but it turned out to be essential for ''Skyward Sword'' speedruns thanks to an array of associated glitches that allow the player to take the coordinates or memory values of the title screen's map and apply them to other maps in the game.

** Holding "Alt" while trying to generate a world causes the game to create a "debug world", which is an empty world with complete void, and floating in front of the player's spawn position is a floating one of every block and every block version in the game, including blocks that can't normally rest on air and blocks that are typically two part, such as beds and doors. Things such as block gravity, redstone, and cold blocks melting near light don't work in this world. A picture of it is displayed [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/f/ff/Debug_World_Type_Flyover_14w32d.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20191217235658 here]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1165 SCP-1165]] is officially called "Minus Level", and features a real-life version of ''Pokémon''[='s=] Glitch City. It's safe to travel into with no risk of getting lost beyond just losing your way. However, at some random point beyond 100km, there's a risk of getting sent into an infinite free-fall, with no ground to stop you, even after years of falling at terminal velocity, possibly used to match someone crashing in a video game Minus World. The four points where someone has "crashed" and was sent into free-fall were at 103km (manned helicopter), 113.4km (UAV, still transmitting with SCP Foundation via radio signals), 128km (one team of 4 D-class), and 201km (second team of 4 D-class).

* The second season of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' has a miniarc called "Minus World." Interestingly enough, the first episode of the four-episode arc had barely ended before the fandom was joking that it took place in Hyrule. Given that the series is a gaming anime with references elsewhere to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' and ''StreetFighter'' (and other series in the same franchise providing huge {{Shout Out}}s to ''VideoGame/IllusionOfGaia'', 1990s virtual-reality gaming that may further have been a nod to a DummiedOut ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' boss, and ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'', among others), it would be interesting to know if the "Minus World" name is only a result of the time-changing staffs used in that dimension . . . or if it's another nod to the gamers in fandom.

*** In ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', the Train Man's "Mobile Ave" is a limbo-like construct which isn't actually part of the Matrix itself, but which Exiles use to go back and forth between the Matrix and the Machine mainframe.

* ''MegaPony'' intentionally invokes this in the final stage, whose graphics and physics are garbled by Dr. Discord's {{reality warping}}.

* Press "0" on the starting screen of ''[[PlatformHell Syobon Action]]''. It is wholly possible to beat the Syobon action in this mode, in two ways. You can either beat every randomized level like normal or successfully pick up the sword item that normally only appears in the castle without dying to get the ending credits to show up. ''Syobon Action 2'', on the other hand, does not seem possible to beat without the sword in this mode.

* Press "0" on the starting screen of ''[[PlatformHell Syobon Action]]'', I dare you!
** It is wholly possible to beat the Syobon action in this mode, in two ways. You can either beat every randomized level like normal or successfully pick up the sword item that normally only appears in the castle without dying to get the ending credits to show up. ''Syobon Action 2'', on the other hand, does not seem possible to beat without the sword in this mode.

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', at the beginning of Flame Mammoth's stage, it's possible to climb up the vents and walk on top of the ceiling. Going right onwards from there leads the player into a glitched version of the second area, with an improper background palette and the lower half of the chamber becoming a BottomlessPit due to the scroll boundaries not being set properly. Additionally, the Sub-Tank, if not collected yet, has a glitched sprite.

* There was a bizarre room in ''[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jedi Knight]]'' which was accessed by flying through the rafters in Morgan Katarn's house.

* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3cytR4fkpM this battle map]], which can only be accessed by building a walled garrison upgrade in a captured Norscan settlement, something that is normally impossible (towns in Norscan climate don't have access to the building giving them walls ''but'' Bretonnia upgrading a settlment to level 3, which ''can'' be done anywhere, is supposed to automatically give it walls). The game has no data for fortified Norsca towns (the Norscans don't get walls with their garrison upgrades), so it spits out this broken map in response to a defensive battle on the settlement. Both sides end up blobbed together on a tiny spit of land in the corner of an impassible sea (which also prevents reinforcements from arriving), guarenteeing an ugly, messy brawl with no room to maneuver.

* ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend'' has the vast "[[FanNickname Lost Frontier]]" - a region outside the playable bounds of the game, which is accessible by putting in certain passwords. It's a glitchy region where new rooms are randomly generated and should be traversed with caution as it is entirely possible for a new room to generate without an exit.

** In ''Red/Blue/Yellow'', [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitch_City Glitch City]] is the FanNickname for any of several areas consisting of a jumbled assortment of tiles with highly glitchy behavior, where some ''very'' unusual wild Pokémon can be encountered. Getting to Glitch City requires using a save trick to walk out of Safari Zone (impossible in later generations) and traveling to another area (preferably the Cinnabar Island coast) before reaching the limit of 500 steps.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' has a hidden room that resembles a modern-day bedroom with a bed, PC, and television with a [[ConsoleCameo Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Nintendo Switch console]].

* In ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'', there are many "out of bounds" areas that can be reached by exploiting the in-game physics (such as using mushroom turbo boosts to bounce off of shells/other players/etc., repeatedly hopping to climb up hillsides, collisions with 2-dimensional objects at strange intersections, and so on. Usually the player will just tumble into a void beneath the course, landing in some invisible water far below it, but other times there is some sort of floor tthat can be driven on. On hillsides, it's possible in some courses (e.g. Choco Mountain) to reach "undrivable" upper areas that cause the player to tumble automatically. This mechanism is supposed to force players back down the hillside to the racetrack again, but in certain places they're flat, so if you can get up on top of them, your character is stuck tumbling forever, unable to land or fall back down.