Nuka-Cola

Nuka-Cola was the most popular flavored soft drink in the United States before the Great War. After the Great War, Nuka-Cola remained the most popular soft drink of the post-nuclear world, as much of it was preserved in fairly good state, although it tends to be warm and flat. Consumed in masses it has an addictive effect.

After drinking a Nuka-Cola, the player adds its bottle cap to his/her supply.

History
Nuka-Cola was invented in 2044 by John Caleb-Bradberton. Due to its unique taste, it quickly became the world's most popular soft drink with a dedicated following. The color of the bottles was changed to Dazzling Blue (scientifically proven to be the most pleasing of all blues) after market research done in 2052 said that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of a hundred polled. By 2067, vending machines with ice-cold Nuka-Cola could be found on virtually every street in America. The drink's ingredients are Carbonated Water, Caramel Color, Aspartame, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Natural Flavors, Citric Acid and Caffeine. The flavor of Nuka-Cola is the essence of seventeen different fruits mixed in just the right proportion to give the beverage its trademark taste. In the Great Passion Fruit Famine of 2044, people actually noticed the taste difference when the flavor was changed. The drink also includes vitaminerals and health tonics.

Aside from the original version, the company also created Cherry Nuka-Cola, but unfortunately nobody liked the taste. After the marketing disaster that was Cherry, Nuka-Cola attempted to save the brand by introducing the Classic Nuka-Cola. It tasted exactly the same as the original but came in a new bottle.

In 2077, a new version called Nuka-Cola Quantum was introduced. According to the advertisements, it had twice the calories, twice the carbohydrates, twice the caffeine and twice the taste. To make it stand out more on the shelves and to give it an extra kick, the Quantum included a mild radioactive strontium isotope (and an eighteenth fruit flavor - pomegranate). The effect was a drink that not only boosted your energy, but also glowed with a bright blue light. While no ill effects were recorded by the Food and Drug Association, the isotope also caused the drinker's urine to glow.

The company's main factory was located in Washington, DC, which used cutting edge equipment to keep the world's most popular soft drink in full production 24 hours a day.

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics
Nuka-Cola appears in all Fallout games save for Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel where it is replaced with the real-life Energy Drink brand of Bawls, much to the chagrin of fans. The Cherry and Classic variants appear only in Fallout Tactics.

Fallout 3
Consuming a bottle of Nuka-Cola provides a single Cap.

In Fallout 3, Not only do Nuka-Cola and Nuka-Cola Quantum appear in bottle form, but the bottling factory can also be entered. Nuka-Cola branded security robots guard the factory floor, directed by their Robotic Foreman, but the offices and irradiated underground area is also infested with curiously mutated Mirelurks, called NukaLurks. The factory is located along the southern highway going towards Rivet City.

Appearances in Real life
During the 2008 E3 as a promotional item, people were given a real drinkable version of the product. It greatly resembles the 1950's look of the Coca-Cola brand bottles.

Supply and Usage
One of the three ingredients of a Super Stimpak as crafted by the artiste of the test tube known as Myron, Nuka-Cola restocks in shops in Klamath, and on the oil tanker in San Francisco. Left click on a Nuka-Cola machine and drag the mouse to access the backpack and put coins in the slot. Nuka-Cola machines inexplicably, other than for reasons of gameplay, restock every one to seven weeks.

Nuka Cola Website
There appears to be a Nuka Cola website in existence, though it's officialness is not confirmed.

The Nuka Cola website and the associated Rad-Away and Enclave Radio websites are not, in fact, official. They were created by a private web-designer.