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Mountain Dew Game Fuel
parrothead | 7:32 PM on 09.13.2007 7 comments


I was watching TV the other day and I saw this commercial for a special flavor of Mountain Dew to coincide with Halo 3 release. I thought that there was no way that this could be a good thing. They are just pandering to us as gamers. Slap something to do with a video game on the bottle and people will but it, right? In order to conduct a scientific experiment I got my hands on a couple of bottles of the new Dew. Let me just tell you that the stuff is gross. It tastes like someone put a red bull into a mountain dew and then topped it off by drizzling liquid sugar in the flavor of cherry. It tastes like absolute garbage. While the ad is pretty good:

I have to ask are any gamers out there offended that they would give us such an inferior product and expect us to just take it? I imagine it is probably how the hip-hop community feels about the Boost Mobile ads or teachers/strippers feel about the new Carl's Jr Ad:
I personally feel insulted when companies take things I love and try to trick me into buying things just because they are loosely associated with that action. Am I the only one that can distinguish a shitty product from a good one regardless of what is on the bottle?



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Little Burro's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2007 20:07
Little Burro
I bought one can for the memories and I will never buy another.As for the pattymelt I know I'm gonna die someday and I would like to keep it far off and not in a Carls Jr.
Jakysan's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2007 20:13
Jakysan
Its ok, I just had to try it also. However I wouldn't describe it as bad. I kinda dug it. I wouldn't consider it some sort of energy drink at all though. I simply can't compare this to a tasty Rockstar.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2007 21:05
BluDesign
I must've missed something, cause Rockstar, Monster and RedBull all taste the same to me.

I enjoyed the bottle of GamerFuel I bought but I'll be damned if I'll buy it again. I don't understand how people can subsist entirely on sodas all the time. I need water.

Bleh.
kaz's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2007 21:18
kaz
I like it, someone somewhere said that it tasted like liquid gummy bears and I totally agree.
Styles B LKV's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2007 21:24
Styles B LKV
I took one sip and dumped out the rest. $1.98 well wasted.
tehdopefish's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2007 21:41
tehdopefish
I was expecting it to be Mountain Dew Code Red... it wasn't.

disappointment ensued.
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2007 22:37
JRisJunior
i tried it. it tasted like cough syrup. quite nasty.
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