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Pepsi is a brand of carbonated soft drink originating from the USA, as well as the flagship product of PepsiCo which also acted as the current owners/producers for Mountain Dew as well as the Lays brand which created, among other things, Doritos. Originally formed in 1893 as "Brad's Drink", it was renamed PEPSI-Cola by Caleb Bernham in 1898 after naming his formula, and then eventually to just PEPSI in 1961. Being PepsiCo's flagship product, it eventually spread throughout the world, with countries such as Japan marketing their own variants such as the Pepsi NEX zero-energy drink in 2006. The NEX version attracted a large amount of support in Japan due to its stylish label design, which included an impactful black background and silver gradient. In addition, the name of the Pepsi variant was meant to represent its status as the 'Next Generation' for Cola products within Pepsi, although it can also mean "New Excitement", "New Experience", and/or "New Expectation".
Relation to the Metal Gear series[]
Pepsi NEX branded soldiers and item in Peace Walker.
Pepsi NEX, alongside Pepsi's sister product Mountain Dew, Doritos, AXE Body Spray, Bon Curry, and magazines from Weekly Famitsu, Dengeki PlayStation, Dengeki Games, and Weekly Shōnen Magazine were included in the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker as a joke on product placement.[1] In the international versions of the game, Pepsi NEX was replaced by zero-calorie soda; with its graphic being replaced with Narc Soda from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. In addition, supplemental materials such as a DLC t-shirt advertising Pepsi NEX (included via a DLC passcode in promotional Mountain Dew cans featuring Peace Walker characters) and a briefing file covering Pepsi NEX were cut from subsequent non-Japanese versions altogether, presumably for the same reason why Pepsi NEX itself was replaced.
Although Pepsi is technically a separate brand from Mountain Dew and has its own in-game t-shirt distributed via Pepsi products, sometimes the Mountain Dew cans distribute Pepsi Nex t-shirts, instead of Mountain Dew t-shirts, due to their sharing the same parent company, PepsiCo.
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External links[]
- Pepsi on Wikipedia.