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** ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'': Mario is walking along happily when he's suddenly informed that Bowser has Princess Peach again. Go get her. In 3D.
* ''[[River City Ransom]]'' deserves special mention: The [[Big Bad]] kidnaps Ryan's girlfriend. He makes you face all the gangs in the city, including "evil bosses" (Yes, he actually calls them "evil bosses".) But the real hero is [[Game Breaker|Karma Jolt]].
* The freeware game ''[http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3740 Stair Dismount]''{{Dead link}}'' has a plot involving a superhero who needs to prove that he incurred physical damage in order to [[Hero Insurance|pay for the widespread mayhem he inadvertently caused while saving the day]]. This is surprisingly deep for a game that's pretty much entirely about [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|shoving a ragdoll down a flight of stairs]].
* Most [[Roguelike]]s are pure dungeon crawlers with a few lines about retrieving an artifact or defeating a mighty demon as an excuse for traversing the dungeons.
* ''[[Columns]]'', of all things, has some blurb in the instruction manual about it being a game played by jewel traders in the Near East or somesuch.
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