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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''.
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** ''[[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?
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* 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]]!
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