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Consolation Prize
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Welcome, welcome, and thank you for playing TV Tropes! Applause! Unfortunately, I'm afraid you're not our big winner here today, and so we have to say goodbye! Awwwwwwwww! But you're not leaving empty-handed! No, you're going home with our fabulous Consolation Prize! Fast Eddie, tell our lucky losing contestants what they've won! That's right, our Consolation Prize is a nice little gift basket loaded with various and sundry household goods and items, maybe some store credit, and we'll even throw in the Home Game version of our own Game Show! Wow, look at that shiny box! Courtesy of Trope Co.®! Applause! Thanx, Eddie! And before our grand champion starts feeling left out, let me remind everyone that the Consolation Prize is, by necessity, of inferior value compared to our show's real prizes. But at least it's not a Zonk. Now, off with you runners up, and let us bask in the glow of our real winner! Cheers And Applause! What, there's no year's supply of Rice-A-Roni, The San Francisco Treat? Ding! Ding! That's THE memetic Consolation Prize, you know... |
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The Crystal Maze once ran a special edition of the show where the contestants were kids. They did really well but fell down at the last hurdle - the famous crystal dome, missing out on the grand prize - a trip to Disneyland. Or so they thought. The host suddenly revealed that they were going to Disneyland anyway. More conventionally, every competitor, regardless of how well they did, got a replica of one of the crystals. | |
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In the Shadow Hearts series, if you fail on the Lottery, you get Tissues. In the first game, you need Tissues at one point to get one of Yuri's most powerful Fusions - which is why Margarete's prize for completing the Monster Arena is Tissues (in case you never lost the Lottery). For those who feel that this seems a little random, it might be noted that tissues are in fact a common consolation prize in Japanese lotteries. |
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Groucho Marx's radio quiz show You Bet Your Life had a clever twist: if the contestants wound up losing all their money (or ended their appearance with less than $25 in winnings), Groucho would ask them a consolation question worth $25. The consolation question was one which it was almost impossible to get incorrect (though some contestants did miss it): "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?", "When did the War of 1812 start?", and "What color is an orange?" were among them. In one episode, Groucho asked the contestants if they really wanted to bet all their winnings on a question. One of the contestants replied, "Why not? I know who's buried in Grant's Tomb." A contestant once gave the proper answer of "no one" to the Grant's Tomb question. Groucho was surprised that he got it "wrong" until the contestant pointed out that Grant's Tomb is an above ground mausoleum. An alternate game show used similar questions...but with a twist. Mentioning a specific Grant, or asking where Panama hats are made. In Ulysses S. Grant's tomb, there's both Ulysses S. Grant AND his wife, Julia! (Panama hats are NOT made in Panama, but in Ecuador.) |
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Ask a Gaia Online member about Potatoverseer. | |
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A Late Night with Jimmy Fallon sketch featured the game show Wheel of Carpet Samples. The winner got to keep his carpet sample, and the losers were left with a $300 gift certificate. Wheel of Game Shows (which is rigged so that everyone loses) has a Led Zeppelin t-shirt with an L that fell off (making them read "Ed Zeppelin"), along with a Jimmy Fallon album. |
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Kingdom Hearts II: During the Fourth Day in the simulated Twilight Town, Roxas takes part in the Struggle Tournament. Winning against Setzer earns him the Champion Belt (which boosts his resistance against Fire, Blizzard and Thunder damage if equipped); if he loses, he gets the Medal (an Accessory that boosts strength by one) as the consolation prize. | |
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On the PBS Kids game show: Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, The gumshoe would get a consolation prize if they did not complete a round. If the gumshoe came in third place in round 1, They would get a traveling bag, It contains a atlas book, an official Carmen Sandiego wristwatch, a Carmen Sandiego T-Shirt, and subscription to the National Geographic World Magazine. If the gumshoe did not complete round 2 (Jailtime Challenge), They would get a world band radio. If the winning gumshoe did not complete the map round in 45 seconds (Or 60 seconds if they are using the Asia map), They would get a portable CD player and some selection of CDs from around the world. | |
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In the 1985 pilot version of Finders Keepers, if the runner failed to complete the final search before time ran out, he or she would receive whatever amount was won in prizes as a consolation. | |
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Of Thee I Sing, in the Beauty Contest: | |
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If the contestants misses buckets 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 on Bozo's Grand Prize Game, they keep the prize(s) matched to the last bucket they were successful on. note (A base prize was won for success with the first bucket, with the contestant winning both that prize and more items for bucket 2, then that prize package and more for bucket 3, and so on, until a grand prize was offered for the last bucket.) (In some markets, if the contestant missed bucket 1, they tried again until successfully landing the ping-pong ball; this varied through the years, however, and depending on the market and/or year, a miss on the first bucket still netted them a prize such as a towel with Bozo's likeness on it or a balsam-wood airplane). | |
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The short-lived Merv Griffin's Crosswords offered its losing contestants a Croton watch with the show's logo on it. One unlucky contestant who somehow won with a negative score and lost the bonus round also walked away with said prize (a situation that could have easily been avoided had they at least implemented a house minimum). | |
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In Champions of Far'aus, When Daryl loses the first round of the champions tournament,he gets a tiny dagger as a consolation prize.Since the city it is being held in is attacked by Sarengal's cultists a minute or so later, and Daryl didn't have any other weapons to use, it actually became a lifesaver for him, and he continues to use it to fight. | |
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Discussed and Played for Laughs in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. During the first visit to Maktar Nebula Gladiator Games arena, the commentator says that if Ratchet doesn't win, he'll get a consolation prize. The camera pans to screen showing a tombstone. | |
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Should a level go utterly FUBAR in The Wonderful 101, you won't even get a Bronze at the end of it. Instead you'll get a tiny plastic consolation prize. The newspaper at the end of a section in the level will even demand to know "WHERE ARE OUR REAL HEROES?!". And given how unforgiving the game is, you may well end up seeing it at least once in a playthrough. Incidentally, this game is from the same developers as the above-mentioned Bayonetta. Go figure. | |
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One Garfield comic strip spoofs this with a TV show announcer revealing that the lovely prizes for the runner-ups are tickets to "LOSER-ville!" Garfield thinks that there's finally one game show that's got that part right. | |
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A game show in a MADtv (1995) sketch offered as a consolation prize a "lifetime supply of Rice-A-Roni... the board game"; one box. Another skit offered Rice-A-Roni to contestant who wanted liver, but gets the Rice-A-Roni but can liver in it. |
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Doing poorly in a mini-game in Final Fantasy VII 's Gold Saucer gets you a tissue. The weird part is that winning all eight fights in the Battle Square still gives you one in addition to the prize. | |
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The Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy XIV gives players a small amount of MGP (currency for prizes in the Gold Saucer) should they not win the mini-cactpot or jumbo cactpot (a scratch off and lottery respectively), though the consolation prize is usually less than the amount of points the player paid for to play the games. The player is given some MGP back if they lose the lottery since getting nothing back in return would be borderline gambling and many places have strict laws when it comes to online gambling. | |
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Some seasons of Family Feud combined this with Product Placement to give the losing family a $500 Green Dot debit card, which is not much less (or possibly even more) than the winning family gets if they fail the Fast Money round. Of course, the winners get to play again. | |
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The Price Is Right: During the Drew Carey era, after a contestant lost an over/under pricing game on the first item (a roll of aluminum foil), he spontaneously gave the contestant the roll as a souvenir. Drew has been keeping up the trend, if a bit randomly. If a contestant loses on a game based on grocery items, Drew will give the contestant the item that made them lose as a souvenir, whether it is walnuts, potato chips, or even whipped cream. Early in the show's history, a losing contestant in Grocery Game — provided they used all five grocery items but failed to reach $6.75 — was given a $100 cash consolation. Just prior to the second Showcase Showdown (or the Showcases during the 30-minute era), "Contestants not appearing on stage" (or CNAOS, as it was fondly abbreviated by fans) were usually given a combination of grocery items plus small prizes, usually up to $500 in value. Since Season 41, CNAOS receive $500, which is not stated on-air. Several of the on-stage pricing games that featured small prizes still allowed the contestants to keep whichever small prizes they correctly guessed a pricing question to, even if they lost. |
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, each end-of-level has a roulette box that tasks you with getting three of the same card, and awards you 2 extra lives if you get all mushrooms, 3 extra lives if you get all flowers, and a whopping 5 extra lives if you get all stars. If you mess it up though, getting three of any combination of cards still earns you a single extra life for your troubles. | |
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Family Game Night will give the families who played and lost $100 for playing, and they still get a shot at the Community Chest. If they happen to pick the winning combination, they have a shot at the car. | |
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On the Taiwanese version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, the first question is worth NT$1000 as well as a NT$500 guarantee (about US$17), so that players who flunk out in the first half of the game still get a minimal consolation prize, unlike the US version. But on the occasions that a contestant answered the very first question incorrectly, they were awarded a big novelty check for "ZERO YUAN". | |
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In the season one finale of Jackie Chan Adventures, after Shendu's destruction resulted in the Dark Hand losing the treasure Shendu had promised them in return for retrieving his talismans but refused to give them, Finn noticed the said talismans in the sand that used to be Shendu's palace, and asks Valmont if he'd be happy with a consolation prize (and keep in mind, the talismans give their wielders magical powers). | |
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Neopets' Tiki Tack Tombola has the Booby Prize, which are usually even more pointless than the regular prizes. | |
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On the current version of Let's Make a Deal, when a contestant gets Zonked, Wayne Brady will often (but not always) give them a bit of money (usually around $100) so they don't walk away empty-handed. | |
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Tomodachi Life: Lose to one of the Islanders in an Islander Game and they'll "reward" you with either a Box of Tissues or a Toilet paper. Both are Shop Fodder that sell for exactly $1. | |
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Much less generously, if you miss the end-of-level tape in Super Mario World, the tape is at least worth a single coin and 100 points. | |
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The Hollywood Squares (and many other Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley produced shows) had consolation prize packages that often totaled $1,500 – and these were nice gifts! (For instance, on one Heatter-Quigley show, the loser walked away with a photo session at Olan Mills studios, a microwave oven (and a couple other kitchen appliances), a water softener, a $300 Iowa Pork Producers gift certificate, and some Sarah Coventry jewelry. Other contestants have received things such as two-night stays at a local resort, encyclopedias, gift certificates to clothing stores, car care packages and much more. Keep in mind this is what the loser receives!) | |
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The Stone Award is what you receive when you completely blow a level in Bayonetta. Yes, this game is cruel enough that they invented a level below Bronze just in case you completely botch things. Which is quite likely on your first (few) playthrough(s). The figure also happens to be game's biggest Butt-Monkey Enzo. | |
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Normally, even the unluckiest contestants on Deal or No Deal walk away with at least a small amount of cash, even if it's a single penny. But when a hapless contestant on the Australian version managed to win literally nothing, they handed him a Giant Novelty Check for the amount of "Nothing". | |
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Blankety Blank had "The Blankety Blank chequebook and pen!", spoonerised in the Les Dawson era as "chequepen and book!" | |
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M*A*S*H: In "Smilin' Jack," chopper pilot Jack Mitchell is trying to become Chopper Pilot of the Year, only he's now been grounded as he was diagnosed with diabetes. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode, "If You're So Smart, Why Are You Rich?," The Riddler failed to kill the corporate executive who cheated him out of a job thanks to Batman, but at least he escaped and has the satisfaction that the exec now is plagued with a terrified paranoia for the Riddler to strike at him again. | |
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Inverted in Billy vs. SNAKEMAN with the game "First Loser". Everyone who plays throws in X amount of ryo. The top twenty or so highest bidders get... one kunai! (Kunai are 100 ryo each in the game's shop, and used to perform the weakest jutsu.) The first player outside of the top ranks gets an extremely valuable item. Thus, you want to be the first loser. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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Inverted in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. When you send a lottery ticket to the mailbox, and you supposedly don't win, you get a ship part as a consolation prize. When you do win, they forget to put the prize alongside the letter, so you receive nothing at all. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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On Sale of the Century, losing contestants still kept everything credited to them in the main game, including their score in dollars. (Of course, the latter usually wouldn't be much, as it was a rare occurrence for the winner to have a score greater than 100, much less the losers.) It was possible, and in fact not even terribly unusual, for a contestant to lose yet get a bigger single-episode haul than the winner, by virtue of prizes that don't count towards the score - although of course, the endgame prizes offered to the winner were much more valuable, and only the winner can come back and get one step closer to the lot. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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In a number of the Yu-Gi-Oh! video games, losing a set number of times (normally 10 times) unlocks the Secret Character Mokuba, Kaiba's Bratty Half-Pint little brother. As should be obvious, he is the easiest duelist to beat by a good margin, so the game is basically insulting you by giving you the 'privilege' of playing with one of the main character's younger siblings until you get better. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_a9dbb401 | comment |
Queen for a Day: The producers deliberately kept the consolation prize stash small for losing contestants, according to one history of the genre. The explanation: The show wanted to prevent fortune-seeking contestants who lied about their "dire" circumstances just to get onto the show. This was, because in addition to things that a contestant truly needed (such as medical care or therapeutic equipment to help a chronically ill child, or her out-of-work husband a decent-paying job), there were other gifts, such as fur coats, vacations and so forth as part of the stash. Even though the consolation gifts were comparably less expensive, such as a toaster oven or a camera kit, no legitimate contestant ever left empty handed. Said consolation prizes were also left unmentioned on the program for the same reasons, leading to the popular belief that the losers were left with nothing, adding to the show's infamy. Averted in the occasional episode that was "Princess for a Day", featuring tween girls as contestants. Only one girl won the "crown", but it was always announced that all four participants would receive the items they had asked for. |
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Alter Ego (1986): If you don't win in The Date of a Lifetime, you still receive a copy of Morgana Morganstein's best selling self-improvement guide ''Be the Man I Want You To Be". | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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Wheel of Fortune used to offer consolation prizes to any contestants who finished with a score of $0. Starting in the early 2000s, they now get the "house minimum": first $500, then $1,000. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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Concentration: An unusual case for the 1970s Jack Narz version – in that consolation-level prizes, such as Bic writing pens, flashlight batteries and boxed Betty Crocker potato dishes were front-game prizes. Yes, you still could get Rice-o-Roni as a consolation prize if you didn't win anything, but there was the possibility that it was a front-game item as well. Additionally, if you solved just one of the Double Play bonus round rebuses, you still came away with $100. During the original NBC version, a winning contestant that had nothing in his prize rack when he solved the rebus won $100. Also, when is the last time a car was offered as a consolation prize? Well, when you didn't win the game ... but during the course of play, you uncovered both Wild Cards in the same turn. The car was yours from then on, and no one could take it away from you, even with a loss or an opponent's "Take" card note and yes, more than once an opponent specified she wanted the car when she got her take … but was denied or upon finding a "Forfeit" card note which was still in use then, meaning you had to forfeit a prize to your opponent and it was the only prize available. This "Double Wild means a car" rule was in play during the final three years or so of the original NBC version. |
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Consolation Prize / int_badd1aa6 | |
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Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
There's a Team Fortress 2 achievement for the Sniper by this name. It requires the achiever to be on the receiving end of a Back Stab from a Spy, their natural and greatest enemy. Fifty times. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_c25cfc1d | comment |
In Aleste Collection's Aleste Challenge mode, completing a challenge without getting hit awards a Gold Medal and 10,000 Challenge Points. If you get hit once, you get a Silver Medal, which is worth three CP. Complete the challenge without qualifying for either to get a Bronze Medal, which is worth one CP. The Silver medal is still good for knowning which segments you can almost no-hit, but is effectively worthless for the Aleste Challenge online leaderboard. | |
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Consolation Prize / int_c25cfc1d | |
| Consolation Prize / int_c34ab4c | type |
Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_c34ab4c | comment |
In This Bites!, thanks to Ace and Marco immolating Whitebeard's body, Blackbeard was unable to get the Tremor-Tremor Fruit from it before it regenerated, meaning that the fruit was now somewhere in the world and that Teech may never find it. However, Blackbeard decided to settle on another close proximity Devil Fruit that had some potency: Byrnndi World's More-More Fruit. | |
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| Consolation Prize / int_c5fa3363 | type |
Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_c5fa3363 | comment |
Homer Price: In "The Doughnuts", due to an accident, a diamond bracelet gets mixed into the doughnut batter and ends up inside the machine. When they figure this out, Uncle Ulysses (acting on advice from Homer) announces a sale on doughnuts. Whomever buys the doughnut with the bracelet inside can't keep it... but they get a consolation prize of 100 dollars (not quite the value of the bracelet, but still a good prize) from the bracelet's owner. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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The 1969 game Letters To Laugh-In scored viewer-submitted jokes read by the panelists. The highest-scoring joke each week won a trip to Hawaii, whereas lowest-scoring joke won a trip to "beautiful downtown Burbank". And since this was Fall 1969 as opposed to (for example) May 1975, there wasn't nearly as much to do there. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_d9c602eb | comment |
In South Park episode, "Up the Down Steroid", Cartman plans to cheat the special Olympics, but fails miserably due to being morbidly obese and Jimmy taking steroids to win. However, he wins a "spirit award" - A gift certificate to Shakey's Pizza and $50. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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Similarly, Jeopardy! has always paid full winnings only to the first place winner ever since Trebek joined in 1984. The second- and third-place contestants originally got parting gifts, but now, second and third respectively get flat amounts of $2,000 and $1,000. | |
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On 2 Stupid Dogs, the dogs are contestants on a The Price Is Right-type show, where the consolation prize is a box of dog biscuits. Naturally, the dogs want the biscuits, and try to lose on purpose, but they just keep on winning. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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Celebrity editions of such shows also award a guaranteed minimum for the contestants' charities, such as £1,000 in The Chase and £5,000 in The Million Pound Drop. | |
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| Consolation Prize / int_e931907b | type |
Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_e931907b | comment |
In Nuclear Throne, you unlock the character Melting after the first time you die. | |
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| Consolation Prize / int_e98f77bb | type |
Consolation Prize | |
| Consolation Prize / int_e98f77bb | comment |
The score/trophy system in the James Bond game Night Fire has a ranking below Bronze, for completing the mission but failing to meet the Bronze quota. This yields no unlockable rewards (Bronze at least gives the player character art). This can be seen most reliably in later stages of the game on the lowest difficulty (the score is multiplied based on the difficulty selected), as the quotas for all trophies save for Platinum (which always requires 1 million points, requiring the 007 tokens collected to make up for it) increase for later stages. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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In Miitomo, the Miitomo Drop game has a few spaces on the bottom that award candy, if you were unfortunate enough to not land near a clothing item. | |
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