Useless game tie-ins, part I

So there is this soda out now (you may have heard of it) called Mountain Dew. Apparently, it's very popular among the young folks. So is World of Warcraft. Hey, marketing people got a brilliant idea:



And why not. They did it with Halo 3:



Because gamers like to stay up all night, incredibly caffinated, playing Halo 3 and WoW. It's true. This collaboration makes sense.

But how about this one:



Apparently, since most gamers are hairy man-beasts, they have a different skin type than people who actually go outside and see the sun occasionally. It's hard to see this connection.

But it gets better:

http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GameMuseum.Detail&id=40

Gunstar Heroes on the Genesis came packaged with a Fruit Roll-Up. Wonder if there are still sealed copies sitting around somewhere, waiting for a hungry gamer to break the seal and eat the hard sugary treat from decades past before partaking in one of the finest shooters of the generation?

There might even be weirder tie-ins, but it's going to be hard to top a Fruit Roll-Up. Just have to wait and see!