Patrick's Day in most places) in there somewhere, almost a taste like lime Jell-O. It was a citrus flavored drink not completely unlike Mountain Dew, but also had a flavor similar to Green River (which is not gone, we just only see it around St. This neon green soda was released to compete with Mountain Dew, but rather than being a knock-off, I remember it having a distinct flavor all its own. Now that Pitch Black was re-released, Surge probably holds the crown for "most wanted discontinued beverage" in the soda world. Drinking this bottled nostalgia made me think about some of the other discontinued soda flavors.
The five bottles I purchased today are, thankfully, the original variety, and two are already gone. There's a "bite" on the end of the flavor that makes it a little more than a caffeinated grape soda, and that factor was lost when they briefly brought it back as "Pitch Black II" in 2005, messing with the formula to attempt to make it more.
I think the length of time it was completely unavailable added to the mystique surrounding this stuff, but tasting it again reminded me of why so many of us were desperate to have it back on the market. Honestly, it kind of ruined me for soda, and it was discontinued over five years ago, and I'd held little hope of ever seeing it again. These have ranged from the quite good (Game Fuel red) to the positively putrid (Game Fuel blue,) but none have ever held the crown besides Pitch Black. The caffeine and sugar rush from this particular soda has gotten me through more than a few marathon gaming sessions, and I've endeavored to at least taste their annual limited-edition flavor experiments with the stuff. I'm not much of a soda drinker, but like most gamers here in the US, I've had a special relationship over the years with Mountain Dew.
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