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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. [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Natural hazards like thorns, giant feet, bouncing balls, and frayed electrical wires are everywhere]] in these small scale environments.
If your heroes are naturally small, all of the game's levels may be various Macro Zones. Another common scenario is to have your characters shrink temporarily, often to sneak through a small opening, or retrieve an item.
[[Prehistoria|Prehistoric]] levels may partially be Macro Zones, since everyone knows that the distant past was filled with enormous flesh-eating insects and [[Man
Named for the Macro Zone in ''[[Super Mario Land 2:
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== Games where your character shrinks ==
* The [[Trope Namer]], ''[[Super Mario Land 2:
** The first ''[[Paper Mario (
* ''[[Sonic CD]]'' has a point in the final area of the last level where Sonic gets hit by a shrinking laser, and travels through Robotnik's fortress while tiny until he jumps into a grow ray.
* ''[[Okami]]'' has a large area in the Imperial Palace where a miniature Amaterasu has to make her way through a garden, into the castle, and ultimately to a showdown in the Emperor's belly.
** Later, she must also shrink down to enter the habitat of the Poncles.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[Soul Blazer]]'' featured a level where the hero shrunk down to fight evil toy soldiers on a model of a town.
* ''[[
** [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards|Unless you've got magic.]]
** This also occurs in ''[[
* Alice has to travel through some wilderness while shrunken in ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''.
* The Wonderland level in ''[[Kingdom Hearts (
* ''Return to Zork'' has a [[Timed Mission]] in which the player must retrieve an item from a ship in a bottle.
* ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'s'' Tiny Kong has shrinking as her special ability and at least one of her Golden Bananas in each level involves this ability, whether it be a race against a remote controlled car or something lame like the door to an otherwise normal room is [[Plot Tailored to
* In the original ''[[
* The [[Nintendo 64]] game ''Snowboard Kids 2'' features a level where the kids become tiny and snowboard through the house of one of the characters.
* The ''[[Doom]]'' [[Game Mod]] ''Void'' features a part where your character is shrinked. Now you have to traverse a tiny cave system, fight off spiders, and "press" a button by going into its workings and manipulating the gears.
* There is a ''[[Half Life]]'' custom level<ref>I can't remember its name, and the site I grabbed it off no longer exists</ref> where you get shrinked and have to traverse a living room and a kitchen, fighting miniature soldiers while hiding behind furniture, watching out for mousetraps and jumping on drawers to make your way to the floor.
** The original level was called Rats! and had you inside a kitchen, and there were other "rats" levels in a similar vein depicting a young boy's bedroom, as well as a living room. The levels had various mouse holes that allowed you to traverse between the rooms and inside the walls.
* ''Harley's Humongous Adventure''
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== Games where the enemies and scenery are oversized ==
* Again in ''Super Mario Land 2'': one level is a gigantic tree in which Mario must battle oversized insects, and another level is a mechanical statue of Mario inhabited by larger-than-life toys and moving parts.
* World 4 of ''[[
* The "Huge" half of Tiny Huge Island in ''[[
** The level is actually one singular island with pipes that alter its scale when accessed, but it isn't clear whether it's the island itself or Mario who is shrinking and growing.
* The [[Toy Time]] Galaxy in ''[[
* Supermassive Galaxy from ''[[
* ''[[Final Fantasy Legend]] 2'' featured a Giant's Village with oversized buildings and furniture.
* A hell of a lot of levels in ''[[Lemmings]] 2: The Tribes'' are filled with oversized objects going along the theme of the particular tribe.
* The obscurish platformer ''[[Vexx]]'' has the Tempest Peak Manor, a giant house. As in, it explicitly belonged to a giant. It also has a bonus [[Band Land]] sublevel,
* Logbox 720 in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]: Nuts & Bolts'' is the innards of a giant Xbox 360 pastiche.
* The Lost Underworld in ''[[
* The Dinotropolis levels in ''Fur Fighters'' features otherwise-benign household settings scaled up to dinosaur size.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls Four]]'', the mad wizard Arkved's tower features rooms with huge tables, chairs and beds; there is also some oversized furniture in White Gold Tower's basement.
* In ''[[Thief the Dark Project|Thief Gold]]'', there is an extra are in Constantine's mansion with giant furniture. You get there from another area with a miniature town, right after you [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|travel through a pipe]]...
* In the [[PS 1]] version of ''[[Tony Hawks|Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4]]'', the secret level, Little Big World is one of these, taking place on the worktop of somebodies kitchen.
* Several ''[[
* Possibly the [[Ur Example]], 1984's Henry's House puts the player in the role of then newborn Prince Harry exploring Windsor Castle
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* ''[[Pikmin]]'' and its sequel, which feature a tiny character 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. The Pikmin themselves are around the size of pennies, including their "stem."
* The NES ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* The house ''Chibi-Robo'' takes place in is a Macro Zone, as the titular robot is only a few inches tall.
* Various ''Tom & Jerry'' games on the NES and SNES.
* The NES ''[[Monster in My Pocket]]'' game.
* All of the various ''[[
* The ''[[
* Any ''[[Micro Machines]]'' or RC racing game such as ''RC Pro-Am''.
* ''[[
* The ''[[Glider]]'' series. You're a paper airplane.
* The early levels and early parts of some later levels in ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' are along these lines due to the fact that the Prince is only a few centimeters tall, but because the game focuses not on you but on the ball you're rolling, you become the giant in no time.
* Several custom levels for ''[[
** Ditto with custom maps for the ''[[Unreal]]'' series.
** These are usually called either "toy" or "rats" maps.
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