Money. It’s a thrill, and it’s a part of practically every game in some form or another.
But some games aren’t satisfied with just dollars, or even gold. Some games try to give their game worlds personality by renaming the in-game currency.
Below you will find fifteen of these alternate currencies, and your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to identify which games use which currencies. Some entries may have more than one correct answer, as usual.
1. Gil
2. MUs
3. Caps
4. Gildars
5. SPs
6. ISK
7. Moolah
8. Denarius
9. BC
10. Guitar Picks
11. Loonies and Toonies
12. Zorkmids
13. Studs
14. Halos
15. Pennies From Heaven
Good luck and have fun!
1. Final Fantasy series
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3. Fallout series
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6. EVE online
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12. space quest
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Hm, star control had several currencies – main one is the RU, but also biological data, fuel and crew can be used as currency at points.
In my space opera game idea, the currency is ‘casey’, for kc or kilocredits. Inflation!
1. Correct!
3. Correct!
6. Correct!
12. No, those were Buckazoids, which I can’t believe I forgot about.
Sigh. See, this is what I get. I moved the blog and didn’t update regularly enough and now I don’t even have enough readers to do a decent Name That Game.
We are reading alright. This one is just really, REALLY hard.
Okay, here are the answers:
1. Gil – Practically any Final Fantasy game
2. MUs – Starflight (stands for Monetary Units)
3. Caps – Fallout 1, 2, 3 and New Vegas
4. Gildars – Elemental: War of Magic
5. SPs – Starflight 2 (stands for Shyneum Pennies)
6. ISK – EVE Online (Stands for either Interstellar Kredits or Icelandic Krona, depending on who you ask)
7. Moolah – Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath
8. Denarius – Fallout: New Vegas
9. BC – Master of Orion 1 and 2 (Stands for “billion credits”)
10. Guitar Picks – Tass Times in Tonetown
11. Loonies and Toonies – Scott Pilgrim vs the World
12. Zorkmids – Any Zork game
13. Studs – Any Lego crossover game (Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman, Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Rock Band, etc)
14. Halos – Bayonetta
15. Pennies From Heaven – Afterlife
Man, I go to the beach and I miss a name the game competition!