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* Large food and bonus items in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheRound'' can be struck to turn them into smaller ones for easier division among multiple players. Though this may occasionally yield much better items as well, such as the scepter (gives an instant [[RareCandy level-up]]).

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* Large food and bonus items in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheRound'' can be struck to turn them into smaller ones for easier division among multiple players. Though this may occasionally yield much better items as well, such as the scepter (gives an instant [[RareCandy level-up]]).
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* In ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', a Priest Porridge is a minor health pickup. If a missile explodes near the porridge, it turns into a "Priest Porridge Hot" which restores more health.

* In ''[[Franchise/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson in Escape from Camp Deadly]]'', there's a skull in a cave that turns into a Krusty head 1-up if you shoot it. If you touch it while it's still a skull, you die.

* Star coins in the ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' series can be collected by throwing shells and other things at them. Some star coins ''have'' to be obtained this way.

* In VideoGame/Downwell, the Reverse Engineering item allows you to change a gun mod into a different one once by shooting it.

* In ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'' shooting explosives (which are normally pickups you can carry around and use as weapons) causes them to explode a la Doom barrels.

* Star coins in the ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' series can be collected by throwing shells and other things at them.

* When blasting open the item crates in ''VideoGame/DukeNukemII'', you can occasionally come upon a live turkey, which restores health when picked up. When shot, it turns into roast turkey, which restores more health.
** Shooting a can of cola (a minor health pickup) causes it to rocket upwards. If you manage to grab it before it smashes into the ceiling, you get a score bonus (but no health).
** ''VideoGame/DukeNukemI'' had the same thing as ''II'', except the "live turkeys" were just turkey drumsticks.

May count as a very minor LostForever, if grabbing the item without shooting it first (something easy to do in the kind of game where you pick up things by touch alone) would deprive you of something very valuable.

* In ''[[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson in Escape from Camp Deadly]]'', there's a skull in a cave that turns into a Krusty head 1-up if you shoot it. If you touch it while it's still a skull, you die.

* Star coins in the ''NewSuperMarioBros'' series can be collected by throwing shells and other things at them.
* In the punching-focused ''{{Shatterhand}}'', striking an Alpha chip will switch it to Beta and vice versa. Useful if you have a specific combination you want to try. Attacking money bags will release money and is the only way to get cash from them.

** In the scrolling ShootEmUp ''FlyingTigers II'', shooting the weapon pickups causes them to cycle through the various weapons.

* In the ''RetroGameChallenge'' shooter game "Star Prince" you can activate a SmartBomb by shooting powerups rather than collecting them.

* In the ''{{VideoGame/Worms}}'' series, weapons and health occasionnally drop from the sky in crates. If the crates are shot, they explode, showering the surrounding area and worms with napalm.

* Star coins in the ''NewSuperMarioBros'' series can be collected by throwing shells and other things at them.

A video game trope: an item which, if attacked with a weapon before being picked up, changes in some way, often (though not always) becoming more useful. Sometimes successfully pulling it off requires dexterity, lest the item be [[DestroyableItems destroyed]] instead; thus it offers the player a greater reward in exchange for risk.

* In ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', a Priest Porridge is a minor health pickup. If a missile explodes near the porridge, but not close enough to destroy it, it turns into a "Priest Porridge Hot" which restores more health.

* Hitting life-restoring fruit in ''VideoGame/Plok'' enlarges them, which causes them to restore more health when picked up. For specific fruits, hitting them after they reach their maximum size causes them to warp Plok to a bonus level, but for others, it just destroys the fruit.

* In ''RiseOfTheTriad'', a Priest Porridge is a minor health pickup. If a missile explodes near the porridge, but not close enough to destroy it, it turns into a "Priest Porridge Hot" which restores more health.
* In ''RedneckRampage'' shooting explosives (which are normally pickups you can carry around and use as weapons) causes them to explode a la Doom barrels.

A variant is when you can pick up a powerup, or instantly activate its function, by shooting it from a distance without the need to touch it.

* In ''RiseOfTheTriad'', a Priest Porridge is a minor health pickup. If a missile explodes near the porridge, but not close enough to destroy it, it turns into a "Priest Porridge Hot" which restores more health.

** Shooting a can of cola (a minor health pickup) causes it to rocket upwards. If you manage to grab it before it smashes into the ceiling, you get a score bonus (but no health).

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' any large powerup can be carved into several smaller powerups of different types using a bladed weapon. So if you didn't need all that health or weapon energy, or you just don't care about 64 more E-Crystals at the moment, get out a saber.

* A frequent ShootEmUp trope is having item powerups cycle through various items as they are shot.

*** Such bells also appear in ''{{Parodius}}''.
** In the scrolling ShootEmUp ''FlyingTigers II'', shooting the weapon pickups causes them to cycle through the various weapons.

** The original ''VideoGame/DukeNukemI'' had the same thing as ''II'', except the "live turkeys" were just turkey drumsticks.
* Some levels in ''CrystalCaves'' have five eggs scattered throughout. Shooting an egg instead of picking it up turns it into a letter. If all five letters are collected, the player receives a large score bonus. (The uncracked eggs are worth 1000 points each, while the individual letters are just 100 points each without the bonus for all five.)

* In the Gauntlet clone ''Get Medieval'', shooting a pickup destroyed it.