![]() ![]() Collecting them adds to your score, and for 25 cans you get an extra life. ![]() The slide button serves multiple purposes, as holding up + slide makes Pepsiman sprint for a short burst, for extra speed or to break through simple barriers, while down + slide allows him to slow to a brief skid.Įach section has 100 cans of Pepsi strewn around to guide you and tantalize you off the beaten path. One button is set to jump while the other is for sliding under obstacles. Pepsiman is simple enough that the controls could fit on an NES controller. There’s dozens upon dozens of obstacles that lie between Pepsiman and the fulfillment of his duty to bring liquid happiness, so the klutzy silver mascot stumbles and pratfalls like he does in the ads. Pepsiman is a licensed endless runner game, one that predates the craze of cheap 2D runners that flood the mobile market today. Thus, you’re constantly on them move through roadways, alleyways, and any other sort of narrow passages, cutting through slices of Americana. Someone of authority tells Pepsiman about a crisis far off, people stranded or in peril and needing their thirst quenched with caffeinated refreshment. ![]() Pepsiman the game is a form of a high-stakes take on the general premise of the commercials. Beforehand, he had made a cameo as a guest fighter in the Japanese Saturn release of Fighting Vipers, but eventually Pepsiman would receive his own game, donning his new half-blue suit to match the then-current can design. Naturally, this silvery mascot was a perfect fit for an action game. His design was so simple and cool that he got recognition and fame beyond just Japan. Most of the commercials starring the logo-emblazoned, faceless CGI man had him running toward those in need of Pepsi (nearly all filming went on in the US with English voices) and granting them their wish with his hand outstetched and his previously-unseen mouth open as he breathes out a “shaaa”, like the effervescent fizz of soda – and most of the time promptly injuring himself in some slapstick folly. Japan was no different, but their spin on took its own venture with the creation of Pepsiman, a hero for taste. In the late ’90s, their ad blitz was tantamount with zany commercials with dancing bears and assorted celebrities or Coca-Cola stockers thirsty for the real flavor. ![]() As #2 in the cola wars, they strove to beat its major competitor with more eye-catching advertisements and slogans, many coming off more as extreme and bizarre marketing. Pepsico tends to have a chip on its shoulder. ![]()
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