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A rather impressive list of videogame currency

Coins, gil, rings and more in our roundup of gaming green

Words: Shane Patterson, GamesRadar US

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Kill some demons. Take their loot.

Collect 100 and get an extra life.

In addition to bananas, the Banana Coins enable you to buy things from your brethren Kongs like save points and plane flights to other worlds. Kremkoins are collected in bonus levels and after boss fights.

100 of these nets you a shiny extra life.

At least Moolah is slang for money and not something ridiculous like Meseta.

Currency found from killing monsters or for completing a quest. C’mon, it’s an RPG.

Fun fact: The currency in the Pokemon series is based off the Japanese Yen and wasn’t actually called Pokemon Dollars until Pokemon Colosseum. Since it's only represented as a symbol in the mainline games, many fans simply refer to the currency as dollars.

Used to purchase upgrades, weapons, gadgets, gadzooks, hijinks, whatchamacallits and blammo.

Probably keeps you from dying like the other Sonic games.

Fol = money. Fulfills the same function as every other RPG.

Both are main resources in the StarCraft universe, used for a variety of functions by the Protoss, Terrans and Zerg.

Collect 100. Get an extra life.

Keeps ya from dying and can net you an extra life to boot! Score.

Why did we collect these again?

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Jacob816 - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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jamminontha1n2 - 7 months 15 days ago

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?

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R_U_Guys_From_British - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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MacGyver1138 - 7 months 15 days ago

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.

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Jacob816 - 7 months 15 days ago

@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?

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GhostofSparta - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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Greed - 7 months 15 days ago

Who the hell would name a fish fluffy?

Captcha: TODAY CRAZY!

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FrozenImplosion - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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Ravenbom - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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kingpin202 - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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Cyberninja - 7 months 15 days ago

@Greed
someone on 4/20

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beezn - 7 months 15 days ago

YAY Bison dollars!

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jamminontha1n2 - 7 months 15 days ago

@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.

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jamminontha1n2 - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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RamenDragon - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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theworldonfire - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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

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octagons - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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blankpixelsCG - 7 months 15 days ago

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

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SunshineHobo - 7 months 15 days ago

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...

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