"If WoW has taught me anything, its that fake money is worth a lot" - Scott Butterworth

on the fact of bison dollars, does bison even know how badly he would throw off global inflation rates if he started distributing a new currency because i don't?

I couldn't help but notice you missed out the "imperial septim" from the elder scrolls games.

jamminotha1n2: I'm sure Bison knew. He had the forethought to know that a defibrillator built in to his suit made him impervious to bullets, so I'm sure he thought the money situation through. Because it totally makes sense that a defibrillator can raise you from the dead after taking a shot to the brain.

@jamminoth1n2

Actually, I just spent the last day and half studying for my econ final, so I have sort of an idea. By increasing the money supply, Bison would create a greater demand for currency at a lower interest rate. This low interest reduces the opportunity cost of holding Bison Bucks instead of putting them in bonds, and people spent more. This increased spending leads to an increase in aggregate demand. However, being in a open economy with the other Street Fighters, there are secondary effects of Bison's monetary injection. The interest rate of Bison's currency being lower than that of the rest of the world, domestic assets will be sold in favour of foreign ones, and the real exchange rate will fall, causing the Bison Buck to depreciate in value, and increasing net exports, and net capital outflow equally. This increased amount of export requires more Bison Bucks however, and this increased need for currency will shift the money demand curve to higher levels, to the eventual point where the interest rate of Bison Bucks is once again equal the interest rate of the rest of the world, at which point in the increase in net exports will level out, and the demand of Bison Bucks will be in equilibrium with the supply at world interest rates.

Now the only question left unanswered is what is Bison's main export?

i like being greedy and "collecting" coins, rings, bananas, etc. to recieve an extra life

Who the hell would name a fish fluffy?

Captcha: TODAY CRAZY!

I liked the money system in Luigi's Mansion (gems and other stuff)
and i laughed pretty loud at the bratz thing.

No love for the RE4 Pesata? The ubiquitous RE4 merchant sure loved the Pesata.

Haha, I remember Donkey Kong and DK 2 with there money. It was fun, I liked the Banana coins and Kremkoins.

Great Article. Like always, very creative. =D

@Greed
someone on 4/20

YAY Bison dollars!

@Jacob816 and MacGyver1138
Thanks for the great insight into that butning question of mine.
P.S. good luck on your econ final
recaptcha: author gwinn
I hope they mean Tony Gwinn. what a great ball player.

Sorry for the double post but bison's main export is obviously pain

Surprising the comments aren't just a ton of people saying "You forgot [thing]!! LOL failz!"

"Kollektable kurrency used to unlokk extras like outfits and kharakters."

I couldn't stop laughing at this, nice article!

Where are the cyclops eyes and fenix feathers from god of war?

This is a really cool article. Great job, Shane!

Perhaps we could great a global market for fake game economies and see how The Capital Wasteland's bottlecaps fairs against the Pokedollar. Although if everyone switches back to the gold standard then Sonic and Mario will be the two richest game characters ever. Not that they already aren't...

I'm a fond collector of munny.