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Cyberpunk juice, 1984

Rob Beschizza at 12:39 pm Wed, Oct 24, 2012

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I remember this stuff! Imagine carbonated denatured pruno and you about have it.

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  • Øyvind

    I don’t know what pruno is/was, but I like the sound of it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

    i applaud the pruno reference.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruno

  • Finnagain

    Was it as good as the Thirst Mutilator?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04

    • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

      It made you feel more thirsty, like you’d just consumed a pound of pistachio nuts marinaded in battery acid and blended with salty hobo piss.

      • Beanolini

        I remember it too, I actually quite liked it. But I bow to your superior knowledge of ‘salty hobo piss’.

        The video doesn’t adequately demonstrate just how alarmingly green it was, a colour I’ve only seen again in cheap absinthe.

  • http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

    I didn’t even watch the video but I remember saying “Qua-Qua-Qua-Quatro!!” in the playground

  • fergus1948

    Great packaging design too.

  • http://twitter.com/MrJSnod James Snodgrass

    Quite a landmark ad. IIRC was mentioned quite a bit in Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel’s “Creative Computer Graphics” [1985]. Morton and Jankel, who produced notable pop videos including Donald Fagen’s New Frontier and Elvis Costello’s Accidents Will Happen, are best known for creating Max Headroom.

  • http://about.me/markhealey Mark Healey

    Awesome! I thought I was the only person that remembered this!

  • http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

    how wonderfully over the top, we may live in the future, but the golden age has passed us.

  • dave

    Wow. I remember this too. Much better than Tab Clear, released around the same time.