History Main / PalmtreePanic

** Even the original Green Hill Zone and its successors ([[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Emerald Hill Zone]] and [[VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sunset Hill Zone]]) have a coastline and palm trees in the background.

** ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'': Rice Beach, which also serves as the first world of the game, is a coastal region located west of Kitchen Island with a GangplankGalleon motif. There are boxes and barrels with JollyRoger symbols across the sandy beach, caves with ephemeral platforms and lava pits, and Pouncers that must be avoided due to their deadly spikes.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'': Rice Beach is this, albeit with less water than most examples (until the tide comes in after beating the world boss) up to around level 4.

** Super Sonic in the picture above is flying into ''VideoGame/{{Sonic 3|AndKnuckles}}'''s Angel Island Zone.

%%** Goomba's Booty Boardwalk from ''VideoGame/MarioParty8''.

** Goomba's Booty Boardwalk from ''Mario Party 8''.
** Blooper Beach from ''Mario Party 9''.
** Megafruit Paradise in ''Super Mario Party'', with a few LevelAte elements.

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** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' has a few "lakeside" levels, which are more or less this with wooden piers instead of sand.

** The HubLevel DK Isles in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' is this type of setting as a backseat in all islands except K Rool's (as it's purely mechanical, thus being EternalEngine instead).
** The second world of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', simply named "Beach", is set on DK Isle's tropical beach amid the wrecks of numerous ships (overlapping with GangplankGalleon). Crabs and squid abound.

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* There are a few of these (such as Baroo Coast) in ''VideoGame/StarWarsEpisodeIRacer''. They're a real pain, because sand noticeably slows you down and water just stops you outright.
* The Big Blue stages in ''VideoGame/FZero GX''.
* ''VideoGame/ModNationRacers''' [[LevelEditor track editor]] can let you make tracks in a beach area if you chose to go with a Seaside Setting.
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* ''VideoGame/PokemonDash'' is set within a series of islands, so of course there is plenty of coastline.

* ''VideoGame/IggysReckinBalls'' has Soft Sun Bay, set on a sunny beach with a lot of beach-goers. Unlike most examples of this trope, however, it's in the mid-game, not the early game. Courses set in Soft Sun Bay do show up right from near the start, but the game does not actually feature it until World 4.
* ''VideoGame/HydroThunder'' has the Lost Island, which is a racecourse through the rivers of an island in the Pacific with stock tropical setpieces along the sides of the track.
* ''VideoGame/BanjoPilot'':
** Treasure Trove Cove, which serves as the first track of the Jiggy Cup.
** Jolly Roger's Lagoon, which serves as the fourth and final track of the Beehive Cup.
** Breegull Beach, which serves as the second track of the Feather Cup.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' has the Distant Spring in [[VideoGame/Pikmin1 the first game]], Perplexing Pool ([[NostalgiaLevel which is a revisited form of Distant Spring]]) in [[VideoGame/Pikmin2 the second]], and Tropical Wilds in [[VideoGame/Pikmin3 the third]], all areas themed around sandy beaches with multiple pools and other areas of shallow water. Due to the abundance of water, the areas are explored more easily with the Blue Pikmin. Enemies are often aquatic or amphibious and, in the Tropical Wilds, the boss is a SandWorm fought on the beachside proper.

** Castaway Bay from ''Mario Party 6''.

** Waluigi's Island from ''Mario Party 3'', which also has a few DownInTheDumps elements.
** Koopa's Seaside Soiree from ''Mario Party 4''.

** Pirate Land from ''Mario Party 2'', with a few GangplankGalleon elements.

** Yoshi's Tropical Island from the original game, which returns in ''Mario Party Superstars''.

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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has Summers, a beach resort town about midway through the game. It's quite a bit more relaxed in pace than the previous areas, though not safe - overzealous cops, muscled beach jocks, taxis and street signs are still out to get you, albeit at a low encounter rate. Also references overinflated prices at tourist resorts by jacking up the price on everything at shops.

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** ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' has Peach Beach;

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'' - Star Cup has Koopa Cape and [[NostalgiaLevel Banana Cup has GBA Shy Guy Beach]] while the Battle Mode stage Delfino Pier, while closer to a docking zone than a beach level, still qualifies because of the raising water;

** Jolly Roger's Lagoon and Nutty Acres in [[VideoGame/BanjoTooie the]] [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts sequels]] are both subversions; the former turns out to be just a small portion of a hidden UnderTheSea level and the latter is a [[HailfirePeaks combination of Palmtree Panic]] with [[GreenHillZone other]] [[LethalLavaLand level]] [[EternalEngine types]]. Breegull Beach from the interquel ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooieGruntysRevenge Grunty's Revenge]]'' plays it straight, though.

** Treasure Trove Cove in the first game, though it also has a large DeathMountain section in the topmost area and GangplankGalleon at the center. Features include beach-dwelling enemies, a shark that aims to repeatedly chew Banjo and Kazooie while they're swimming, a GiantEnemyCrab boss, and a seach for a treasure chest whose underground location changes constantly.

** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter2004'': The Jungle leads into coastal areas with palm trees and sandy shores, here you will most commonly confront monsters such as Plesioth.
** In the second generation of games and ''Frontier'' the same case occurs with the (new) Jungle.
** ''Frontier'' also has the Tide Island, where you fight monsters in a tropical island landscape.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'': 5-1 [[spoiler:and Flower-9]] (and to a lesser extent 3-5 [[spoiler:and Flower-7]], leaning more towards UnderTheSea). The former pair is set on a wide, open-ended beach with sandy statues, and the standard version also has a subterranean river traversed with the help of Plessie. The latter pair leans towards UnderTheSea, and the standard versions allows Mario and his friends to witness a beautiful underwater landscape with sunken ships at one point.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In the LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the first level, Leaf Rock, takes place on a beach. At one point, Fred runs off a cliff and is about to fall in the water, but lands on a shark, who takes him to dry land, which the shark immediately starts ripping apart. The boss of the stage is a dinosaur riding a giant eggbeater, who has stolen Wilma's necklace.

%%** Crescent Coast in ''VideoGame/YoshisSafari'' is one-third this and two-thirds UnderTheSea.
%%** Wavy Beach in ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach''.
* Half the levels of ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'' consist of these.
* The ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series has plenty:
** Float Islands in the first game.
** Ripple Field in ''Dream Land''s 2 and 3.
** Ice Cream Islands and Orange Ocean from ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure''.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'':
*** The second stage of "Revenge of Meta Knight" and Aqualiss/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Aquarius]].
*** Illusion Islands in ''Kirby Super Star [[VideoGameRemake Ultra]]''.
** The first and third levels of Aqua Star from ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards''.
** Olive Ocean from ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror'' (a cross between this and UnderTheSea).
** The Water Top Ride course from ''VideoGame/KirbyAirRide''.
** Secret Sea from ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad''.
** Onion Ocean in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand''.
** The first half of Indigo Ocean in ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse''.
** Overload Ocean in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''. Like the entire rest of the game, it's a [[HailfirePeaks combination]] of this trope and EternalEngine.

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Starting Beach]] in ''VideoGame/{{Tomba}} 2'' (or ''Tombi 2'', depending on a region).
* The Sanctuary of Water and Ice and Whale Bay from ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape''.
* Rice Beach in ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' is this, albeit with less water than most examples (until the tide comes in after beating the world boss) up to around level 4.
* ''VideoGame/CoolSpot'' begins with a beach level [[BookEnds and ends with one.]]

* Bummin' It Beach is the beach level in ''[[VideoGame/FancyPantsAdventures The Fancy Pants Adventure: World 3]]''.

* In ''Castle Cat 2'' the entire game takes place in one.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the first level, Leaf Rock, takes place on a beach. At one point, Fred runs off a cliff and is about to fall in the water, but lands on a shark, who takes him to dry land, which the shark immediately starts ripping apart. The boss of the stage is a dinosaur riding a giant eggbeater, who has stolen Wilma's necklace.

* There's an entire Beach faction of VideoGame/{{Lemmings}} in ''Lemmings 2: The Tribes'', with appropriate MacroZone levels.
* World 4 in ''[[VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition]]''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' has the Distant Spring in the first game, Perplexing Pool ([[NostalgiaLevel which is a revisited form of Distant Spring]]) in [[VideoGame/Pikmin2 the second]], and Tropical Wilds in [[VideoGame/Pikmin3 the third]], all areas themed around sandy beaches with multiple pools and other areas of shallow water. Due to the abundance of water, the areas are explored more easily with the Blue Pikmin.

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** The non-UnderTheSea levels of World 3 in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' hint at this, featuring shallow water where Cheep Cheeps and the man-eating Boss Bass swim, and the world map gives off the theme with relaxing beach music, palmtrees and a canoe.
** Muda Kingdom, the second world of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand''. The first two levels take place in the coast, while the third goes UnderTheSea (Mario uses the Marine Pop there).
** The DS remake of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' introduces the bonus level Sunshine Isles, in which Mario and his friends look for Silver Stars that make up for a Power Star; the music is a remix of Delfino Plaza from ''Super Mario Sunshine''.
** Gelato and Sirena Beaches and the beach outside of Pinna Park from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', albeit the latter two to a much lesser extent than the former. Gelato Beach includes small plants that, when fed with water, suddenly pop up large sandy dunes of varying shapes; the flagship mooks are the Cataquacks, but only the red ones are harmful. The beach outside Pinna Park is overrun by Snooza Koopas (which prevent the growth of sunflowers) and a Monty Mole operating a cannon. The outdoor area of Sirena Beach is invaded by Phantamanta, a large MiniBoss with the form of a ghostly electric manta ray that leaves an electrified painting (colored yellow and blue) along its way.
** World 3 in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros1'', ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros2'' ([[HailfirePeaks a combination of this]] and JungleJapes) and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' (and by extension ''VideoGame/NewSuperLuigiU''). ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' has it a bit later by using the setting in World 4 instead. Features include Huckits (red crabs which throw rocks at Mario and his friends), large-sized Urchins, and thick water geysers. The fan-made ''VideoGame/NewerSuperMarioBrosWii'' has Yoshi's Island, the ''first'' world.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' combines several of its [[UnderTheSea water levels]] with a beach filled with a recurring cast of [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] in a swimming class (Beach Bowl Galaxy, Sea Slide Galaxy, Drip Drop Galaxy, and to a lesser extent Deep Dark Galaxy). The sequel ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' has the Starshine Beach Galaxy, which is instead inhabited by Piantas.
** 6-1, S1-4, and S4-3 in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'', as well as 5-1 [[spoiler:and Flower-9]] (and to a lesser extent 3-5 [[spoiler:and Flower-7]], leaning more towards UnderTheSea) in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld''.
** The Seaside Kingdom in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' is a French Mediterranean-style beach with carbonated water. It is home to the snail-like Bubblainians, but also overrun by the squid-like Gushens and their KingMook Mollusque-Lanceur.
** Crescent Coast in ''VideoGame/YoshisSafari'' is one-third this and two-thirds UnderTheSea.
** Wavy Beach in ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach''.

** Yoshi's Tropical Island from the original game.