1977 — 1992 · Food & Drink
Atari 7800
retired
It played your old 2600 games before it was cool. Rest easy, pioneer.
“It saw right through you, and we loved it for that.”
Crystal Pepsi was PepsiCo's famously transparent cola, born from 1,000 product concepts and 3,000 formulations chasing the healthy-eating trend of the early '90s. It swapped caramel color for modified food starch, carried 20 fewer calories than standard Pepsi, and reportedly tasted less acidic. Launched in 1992 with a massive marketing campaign, it was an instant sensation — clear soda felt like the future in a bottl
The future turned out to be short. Consumer enthusiasm tailed off quickly, and Coca-Cola launched Tab Clear as a deliberate copy designed to sabotage it. Production ceased in late 1993, but the love never quite died — a grassroots campaign via telephone and the Internet brought Crystal Pepsi back for brief, sporadic re-releases in the 2010s.
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It played your old 2600 games before it was cool. Rest easy, pioneer.
A square peg that refused to be a dish.
That's all, folks — dinner is served, never again.