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* Rareware seems to be in love with this trope, managing to shoehorn ''huge'' numbers of things you need to collect into practically every game.
** To the point where it's [[Lampshade|lampshaded]] [[Take That Us|hilariously]] in the beginning of ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts 'n Bolts''.
{{quote| <small>{{smallcaps|"Now then. In line with Banjo Tradition, your challenge will consist of collecting as many pointless items as possible."}}</small>}}
** ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' has been blamed by some as [[Genre Killer|killing]] the collectathon [[Platform Game]] genre by single-handedly making gamers completely sick of it.
* Many [[BioWare]] games operate like this.
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* Participants in the Human Genome Project spent years sequencing the DNA of all 46 human chromosomes. Continued efforts to actually determine the ''functions'' of ~30,000 human genes, now that we know what their code looks like, will keep geneticists Catching Them All for the forseeable future.
* Particle physics. You thought [[Pokémon|getting]] [[Guide Dang It|Milotic]] was tough?
{{quote| '''randomforumgoer115:''' THIS 100% WORKS!!!!!! get 9000000000$ then press "build", dont pick any of the options, write down "huge circular tunnel". now build it wherever (i used switzerland), now buy lots and lots of dipole and quadrupole magnets, like 1300 dipole and 400 quadrupole, you need the superconducting ones or it wont work. now this is very important you need like 100 tons of LIQUID HELIUM! or itll overheat and youll [[Nonstandard Game Over|blow the whole thing]]. now you need to throw protons into there, the idea is to make them go fast (this is why we bought the magnets, they make them go in a circle), but usually this wont be enough, at this point youll get a suggestion to buy the linear accelerator and the synchrotron booster. now this is tricky, youll get proton beams and you need to make them run into each other, youll have to play with the magnets until it more or less works. now buy the best detection kit and use it on the tunnel, its a pretty low chance so itll usually take like 2 or 3 years but [[Urban Legend of Zelda|if youve done everything right youll get the HIGGS BOSON!!]]}}
* To many collection hobbyists, either of the regular or [[Collector of the Strange|exotic]] type, this trope applies, making this particular entry of the trope a subtrope of [[Crack is Cheaper]]. These people tend to be known as Completists.
* Basically the job of a police officer. Criminals in the neighbourhood? [[Gotta Catch Them All]]!