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* When you get to the sunken city of Thor in ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', long since destroyed by a meteor impact, the shield around it is still working perfectly. So by extension, so are the automatic doors, the TV (and video game system) in the pub, an electronic lock and card reader, the security systems, and the main computer Oz. Justified in that the city's power comes from the Spirit of Light, Aska. After the city's been pulled up from underwater, you can free Aska and have her join you. The city systems still somehow work after that, though...
** Technology made by the [[Precursors|Quartz]], ranging from a simple lever-operated door to an entire mobile fortress, works perfectly after 2000 years in ''[[Tales of Hearts]]''.
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series takes place a number of years after a nuclear holocaust wiped out every major population center on the planet. Despite that, ''[[Fallout]]'' has completely abandoned sewer systems that haven't collapsed fifty years after the last human could have walked through them, ''[[Fallout 3]]'' is set 200 years after the War, and there are ''still'' freestanding wooden house support beams, identifiable cars ([[Every Car Is a Pinto|that explode]]), glass soda bottles that still have <s>good-tasting</s> potable liquid in them, and ''a standing Washington monument''. The most grievous example? Abraham Lincoln's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120119075242/http://americanhistory.si.edu/
** You don't want to know what's in the food that leaves it edible 200 years after a nuclear holocaust.
** One point about the game is that it's set in an alternate universe, where on the one hand technology leapt forward while on the other the cultural and societal mores stayed roughly in the 1950s, back before planned obsolescence was part of every car design. (Let's face it: restoring a '55 T-Bird will likely still be possible in 2055. Good luck doing the same for an '05 Mustang.) It doesn't cover two hundred years of decay, but things were designed to last back in the '50s.
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