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Ironically, sometimes these coins are just about the only thing the game can think of to reward you with. Found a secret nook in a wall? Followed that obscure, tricky path of coins into a previously unnoticed "treasure room"? Surprise, it's filled to the brim with -- you guessed it -- more coins! If not, it might contain a [[One Up]] or two (Wait, aren't those what the coins are supposed to be for anyway?)
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The supertrope of the [[Law of One Hundred]].
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* It could be said that ''[[Pac-Man]]'' uses this Trope, as his pellets were chiefly undefined and were basically just collected like games which made heavy use of this trope in more modern ways (Mario's coins, for example).
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* In the ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Batman]]'' game, a trail of studs can often show you exactly how and where Batman's Glider suit is best used.
** In fact, all the LEGO games do that and sometimes lead to minikits, from whom there are 10 in every level, which give you... MORE STUDS.
** Inverted with the unlockable extra "stud magnet", where [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|the money follows YOU!]]
* In an unusual RPG example, ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'' features mini-games in 100-Acre Wood where you have to guide Sora through some sort of obstacle course. In each case, following the "honey spheres" which line the way is the best way to figure out how to avoid obstacles.
* Used with Precursor Orbs in ''[[Jak and Daxter]]: The Precursor Legacy''. The game didn't have lives, but you traded orbs for power cells. This became frustrating when people would ask you for 90 Orbs while several would be dotted within reach around the village - why didn't they ever get their own and have done with it? Lazy bums.
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