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Sorry, I've got another one, but I'm not sure about the claim in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo entry that "Velma's computer is far closer to a 1960's UNIVAC-style machine than a 1980's PC". This◊ is what a UNIVAC looked like in 1970. Not just the console, but the banks of tape drives behind it. This◊ is Velma's computer in A Pup Named Scooby Doo. It's got a screen!

Maybe I'm missing something, but the The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power examples seem to be less "it's a more primitive era, but it doesn't look it", and more "centuries before these locations were abandoned, they weren't abandoned!"

Pulled this:

• Since it shows the first meeting of Donald and José, Legend of the Three Caballeros is presumably a prequel to the original The Three Caballeros film. Nonetheless, modern technology like the Internet and camera phones are all over the place. The answer, if there is one to be had, probably lies somewhere between Comic-Book Time and Soft Reboot.

The first meeting of Donald and José was shown in Saludos Amigos. The fact Legend has a completely different first meeting indicates that it's a hard reboot, with a Setting Update.

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Rename, started by Daisanji on Apr 18th 2011 at 12:31:40 PM

I've not played Skyward Sword, but I feel it's difficult to gauge Zelda's "level of technology" when most of Link's equipment is buried undisturbed inside centuries-old spirits or old temples. This is especially true for places like Wind Waker's Tower of the Gods or Twilight Princess' Temple of Time, which take a lot of effort to even find the entrances to.

Most of the Video Game examples are along the lines of the games just having better graphics. The rest of the examples are about technology being inexplicably better/sleeker. Might need a splitting, because there's a big disconnect there.