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The Top 11 Video Game Powerups

Check out our list of the best video game powerups of all time..


There are few things more pleasing in a video game than finding a treasured power-up. That little piece of gaming bliss which makes everything you have to do and everyone you have to kill just a little bit easier to handle. Power-ups are less important nowadays, as RPG-style play mechanics have become the norm. But the real gamers out there will always remember the joy of Arkanoid's L-capsule laser beam or Ikari Warriors' screen-clearing "K" power-up. Power-ups may be diminished, but they certainly won't be forgotten if we have anything to say about it. Read on to take a look at the best of the best, in UGO's own Top 11 All-Time Power-ups.

3.  Pac-Man - Power Pellet
3. Pac-Man - Power Pellet

3. Pac-Man - Power Pellet

While most power-ups are hidden, Pac-Man's Power Pellets were right there in plain sight, always tempting, always taunting. Scarfing down one of these babies temporarily allowed the Pacster turn flip the script on his ghostly pursuers and use them to wash down his steady diet of... well... whatever the hell it was he was continuously eating up. Ghosts never die of course, but banishing those jerks to their holding cell for even a few seconds was often enough for you to grab the bonus point-giving cherry in the middle of the screen. What kind of Pac-Man player were you? Did you use one Power Pellet for each quarter of the screen you cleared or did you save them for as long as possible, until you REALLY needed them?

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