Talk:List of fictional currencies
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[edit] Do we really need to list ALL those games?
I can think of a couple that are already missing, but seriously, just because something was used in a computer game (energy??) as a tradable commodity does not mean it deserves to be listed here. A tidy up is required methinks.
[edit] Simoleons
"Simoleons from Sim City, The Sims and other similar computer games"
Did I really write that? What a horrible pun - perhaps "similar" should be removed? --B.d.mills 06:34, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Isn't from Neal Stephenson's The Great Simoleon Caper? --Error 1 July 2005 01:23 (UTC)
[edit] Art money
I'd like to call attention to the near-fictional currency called "art money"; see http://www.art-money.org.
[edit] Credits
"Credits" gets used in grillions of SF millieu. Can't we collapse it into one entry, listing the representative examples?
Also, while I'm ranting, where are the NuYen (Shadowrun)? Talking about "credits", where are Babylon 5 and Traveller (the GDW role playing game)?
And, of course, I've forgotten to log in. Silly me. -- 131.7.251.200 20:07, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Lets please not have any more separate entries for Credits. Say 'and Bab5" on the first entry, and remember to keep game and other works currency separate.
[edit] Game credits separated
I have separated this into: from a game and not from a game. I probably missed a lot, I only moved what I knew were games. Every game has it's own currency, not every story does. I think people in general want to look through game currencies and fiction currencies for different reasons. Ooops, I forgot to add monopoly money.
I'm iffy about Naquadah. Is spice a currency in Dune? I think no. I haven't read the Dune books either though. But is oil a currency in real life? Not even close. No effiecient way of carrying it, really.
[edit] Fictional currency used in real life?
At the World Bodypainting Festival 2006, there was a separate currency just for the festival. It was called Klex, and was available in plastic coins of value ½, 1 and 2 Klex. It could actually be used as payment for every small purchase (such as snacks and drinks) on the festival grounds, and had a fixed exchange rate of 1 Klex = 1 €. So what does this make this Klex? A real-world currency, a fictional currency, just a fancy way of using Euros, or what? JIP | Talk 11:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Sounds to me just like a form of scrip, like Disney Dollars. Nik42 06:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Non-fictional fictional currency?
One entry reads: "Piastres, drachmae, and taels appear in the alternate history novel The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. The first two are used in Islamic Europe; the latter is the Chinese currency." Historically, piastres and drachmae were used in Europe and taels were used in China. So it doesn't seem like these are really fictional currency, although obviously since this is a fictional work they're used in situations which are fictional. But does that mean every novel that mentions dollars, pounds, francs, lirae, etc. can be listed in this article? PubliusFL 17:27, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, that doesn't sound like a fictional currency to me, either. I suppose if an althistory book had something like, say, "British dollars" or "United States pounds", where a real currency is used in a country that never used it, it could be on the list. Is this a situation like that? Nik42 01:03, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Why do Kongbucks and Hong Kong Luna Dollars share a line?
They're on the same line in the list, though they are not related whatsoever.. Donkey Kong being separate from Hong Kong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.176.8.18 (talk) 23:22, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
