it's funny because as ridiculous as some of these alt coins are, like dogecoin, people are making millions. dogecoin is a fucking joke, yet the total market of doge is nearly $64 million. granted, it's out of 55 billion doge and if you had 1 billion coins, good luck selling it with disseminating the price.
according to http://coinmarketcap.com/all.html there are 139 tracked crypto currencies.