Top 10 video game inspired drinks

(TheDrinksBusiness) - The world of gaming came alive recently with the launch of Grand Theft Auto 5, but what cocktail should you be drinking with this and other games?

The geek world of gamers has combined with cocktail making on a surprising number of occasions and there are cocktails to go with a huge number of games.

From Sonic the Hedgehog to Pac Man and from Tomb Raider to Super Mario Kart, find out which cocktail goes with your favourite game.

And don’t worry, we reckon that having a cocktail while playing Super Mario Kart does not constitute drink-driving.

It is over 20 years since Super Mario Kart was launched by Nintendo and racing games were completely changed. Battling other drivers, collecting power-ups and drifting round corners were just some of the features of this game. With bright and colourful graphics it is entirely appropriate that the cocktail for this game is a psychedelic number.

This cocktail is listed on nintendrunk.tumblr.com, with a note from the creator that explains the thinking behind the concoction. “Super Mario Kart was the first time we got to fall into infinite space off the seizure-inducing Rainbow Road. So, we really had no choice but to make this powerful, colourful, easy-to-spill drink:
“In addition to taking our inaugural drifts around Rainbow Road we triggered boos and lightning bolts, played as Koopa Troopa and Bowser, and tied balloons to our karts and shot each other with shells. The original game is still a ton of fun, but it’s great to see how much those basic elements have evolved over the last 21 years.”