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The odd thing concerning this trope is that, usually, most everyone in the world enjoys the activity. This becomes even odder if the form of entertainment exists solely in one town in the whole world.
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== Role-Playing Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', really starting with ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', made this a regular feature.
** In ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'', the player has to lead Celes through an opera in order to entice Setzer and his [[Global Airship|Airship]] to where the party is. This really is the only form of entertainment, other than the Colosseum, that the world will experience.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' strangely does not have this worldwide entertainment in the largest city, Midgar. Rather, they have an entire amusement park just outside one of the ''smallest'' cities in the game. And believe me, nothing spells entertainment better than trying to force Chocobos to go the way you want them to go.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' doesn't really have a city that specializes in the Card Game of the Week, but each city has its own rules. Regardless of this fact, practically everyone plays. Not only that, but people carry all of their cards around with them as they aimlessly walk around.
** ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'' constitutes the most bizarre example, as it makes the entertainment, Blitzball, very integral to the plot. And yet, though every city has a team that plays in it, there's only one place in the world to play it.
** ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'' has Nautilus, a huge entertainment city on Cocoon that is full of little spherical transports,the Pompa Sancta parade, lots of lights (of course), an amusement park and a chocobo and sheep petting zoo among other things. [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|Not that you ever get the opportunity to actually stick around and enjoy it.]]
* ''[[Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|Mario and& Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' has a video arcade in Little Fungitown, and a cinema in the middle of nowhere.
** ''[[Mario and Luigi Partners In Time (Video Game)|Mario and& Luigi: Partners In Time]]'' houses their arcade in a freakin' ''VOLCANO''
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' does this in several games, in the RPGs especially.
** In ''Pokémon Red and Blue'' Celadon City has the Game Corner, which is the closest thing to this trope.
** ''Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire'' have the various Pokemon Contests in different locations, with the main Contest Hall in Lilycove City. In Emerald all the Contest types are found in Lilycove City. Their upgraded brethren, Super Contests, are found in Hearthome City only.
** With ''Pokémon Black and White'' all of what can be classed as entertainment is in Nimbasa City - which includes a Theme Park, Dance Hall, Sports Arena and the Region's local variation of the Battle Tower. The Gym Leader's hideout is even part of the roller-coaster! Other forms of entertainment are few and far between.
* Handled somewhat entertainingly in ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'': At first, there appears to be only the Contest of Champions to take people's minds off of things (and after the [[Time Skip]] it ceases to run). But after the [[Time Skip]], Ryu's journey takes him to [[Wretched Hive|Syn City, the "illegal" town]], which seems to have an active red-light district. The implication is that the citizens of the world have the world's oldest pastime to entertain themselves. (Let us ignore the [[Squick]] factor of there being only one hooker and instead extrapolate the existence of others!)
* ''[[Legend of Legaia (Video Game)|Legend of Legaia]]'' has an entire tower (town) based off of this. The top area was above the Mist so everybody lived up there. Sol has three or four different activities, but the rest of the towns in the game have little to no entertainment.
* ''[[Golden Sun]]'' has the optional little gambling games in Tolbi, and the not-quite-so-optional Colloso, which is reminiscent of gladiator fights. The sequel brings back the gambling games.
* Most ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games have exactly one (sometimes two) casinos in the world.
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== Turn Based Strategy ==
* In an older [[PSPlayStation 2]]/Xbox/Gamecube title, ''[[Gladius]]'', YOU were the entertainment, being a school of gladiators and fighting in arenas throughout the game.
** ''Gladiator Begins'', a PSP title released in 2010, has a similar set-up.
 
== Non-Video Games Examples ==
* In the Wizarding World of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, there is only ''one'' sport, Quidditch (with an American game, Quodpot, mirroring the [[Cricket]]/[[Useful Notes/Baseball|Baseball]] and [[The Beautiful Game|Association Football]]/UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball[[American Football]] divides in the Muggle world). Likewise, there is only one publicly available broadcast network, the WWN.
** When you consider that the entirety of the British Wizarding World isn't much bigger than a single mid-size town, it ''almost'' seems reasonable.
* In pretty much every comedy set in Medieval the only form of entertainment seems to be watching executions and witch trials.
** Hey, be fair, sometimes they go to jousting matches too.
 
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[[Category:Role Playing Game]]▼
[[Category:Acceptable Breaks From Reality]]
[[Category:Sole Entertainment Option]]
▲[[Category:RoleCRPG Playing GameTropes]]
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