Not to be confused with Game Fuel (Tropical Smash) or Game Fuel (Charged Tropical Strike).
Game Fuel (Tropical) was a Mountain Dew Game Fuel flavor released in Fall 2011 for a limited time as part for the Game Fuel Promotion to promote Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Description[]
Game Fuel (Tropical) was a Tropical flavor of Mountain Dew and had a green look.
Tagline[]
Its tagline was "DEW with a charge of Tropical Flavor with other natural flavors."
History[]
- Main article: Game Fuel Promotion
In May 2011, five hundred Dew Labs members were sent a test can of a new "mystery flavor," numbered #614. An e-mail sent by Mountain Dew explained that they should test the flavor and use websites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to give their feedback. It was well-received by most members, some of whom who compared its flavor to that of Baja Blast and Code Red, and its color to that of Distortion.
In early August 2011, an eBay auction for two upcoming Game Fuel flavors appeared, with pictures showing the original Game Fuel flavor alongside a new, green soda. A release date of Fall 2011 was also mentioned, along with the fact that the green soda was the same aforementioned drink sampled by Dew Labs members.
The flavors were officially revealed on the Mountain Dew Facebook page on August 24th, 2011, and Game Fuel (Citrus Cherry) returned for a limited time in October that year, alongside a new spinoff flavor, Game Fuel (Tropical). It had a new design to promote the release of the first-person shooter video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
- Main article: Dew XP
During this release, the two Dew flavors feature generated codes under the bottle cap that earn players double experience points (2XP), where consumers would visit the Dew XP website to enter them. The Dew XP website had to be linked through the Call of Duty online account before you would get the double XP (2XP) in-game. It also awarded consumers access to exclusive giveaways of Call of Duty themed promotional material.
The promotion ran until the end of the year and both Dew flavors were discontinued.
Trivia[]
- Game Fuel (Tropical) was the second spinoff flavor to promote a video game release along with Game Fuel (Citrus Cherry), a returning flavor.
- As its name suggests, this flavor was similar to Game Fuel (Tropical Smash) and Game Fuel (Charged Tropical Strike).
- This flavor was the first spinoff flavor that was released with codes under the cap, which has continued for every Game Fuel release in the United States since with the exception of promotion-free Game Fuel (Citrus Cherry) in 2014.