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* Late in ''[[Popful Mail]]'', air-headed elf boy Slick is astonished when Mail mentions to him that she needs to find a set of magical orbs to prevent the Overlord from reviving. They're actually powerful artifacts, but Slick thinks of treasure in terms of gold coins and precious jewels, and thus had this to say to her:
{{quote|"''ORBS?'' What good are dumb old ''orbs''? If I saw one, I'd probably just pass by."}}
* ''[[Fallout]]'':
** In the
** This is obviously a [[Call Back]] to a scene in ''[[Fallout 2]]'' (which switched from the caps of the first game to generic "money"), where you stumble on an enormous heap of bottle caps, which are now worthless.
** Incidentally, in ''[[Fallout 1]]'' the value of the bottlecaps received a good explanation: they were backed up by the ''real'' currency, like banknotes used to be backed up by gold in [[Real Life]]: clean water, the most valuable substance in the wasteland. Though it wasn't JUST the water that made caps valuable. It was also the fact that bottle caps were incapable of being replicated, thus no forgery, and their mineral composition gave them a modicum of worth. Same case with bottle caps in the Capital Wasteland.
{{quote|Everyone in the game still prefers to deal with caps instead of other currency - only casino cashiers are willing to pay you in NCR dollars or Legion coins.}}
▲*** In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' a couple more wrinkles are added:
:* The NCR starts to print paper money backed by gold. Unfortunately, before the game starts the NCR gold reserves are irradiated by the Brotherhood of Steel, so they have to switch back to backing their currency on water. This massively reduces the value of the NCR dollar.▼
:* The Legion mints its own money system of gold and silver coins which end up having a higher value than NCR currency or bottlecaps, owing to actually being made from said metals.▼
▲The NCR starts to print paper money backed by gold. Unfortunately, before the game starts the NCR gold reserves are irradiated by the Brotherhood of Steel, so they have to switch back to backing their currency on water. This massively reduces the value of the NCR dollar.
▲The Legion mints its own money system of gold and silver coins which end up having a higher value than NCR currency or bottlecaps, owing to actually being made from said metals.
Someone in the game gives you a quest to destroy a bottlecap press located in a pre-war soda factory, noting that a supply of newly pressed "counterfeit" caps will destablize the economy. (Unfortunately, you aren't given a chance to use the press before destroying it.)
In the ''Dead Money'' expansion, you can come across gold ingots - these weigh 35 pounds and are valued at 10,349 caps. This means that many items (like fully-repaired rifles and energy weapons) are worth ''more'' than their weight in gold. }}
* The MMORPG ''[[RuneScape]]'' sometimes did this, along with other self-parody. In one quest, there is a cutscene of the Trolls killing an adventurer and discarding the 'worthless' red metal he was wearing (the most expensive set of armor in the game at the time).
** The Villagers in Tai Bwo Wannai on Karamja consider gold to be not worth much, due to how much of it there is on Karamja, but find some plants to be useful as currency. The [[Tz Haar]] also find gold useless, because the volcano they live in is hot enough that it melts (curiously, the temperature seems only to make gold worthless in [[Tz Haar]] city, burn paper, and make Rum vanish, and not effect anything else), so they use bits of obsidian as currency.
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