Sports Drink

The Sports Drink (Abbreviated SportsDrink in EarthBound Beginnings and Mother 1 + 2) is a consumable item in EarthBound Beginnings that can be bought early on in the Podunk Department Store. It is similarly bought in Merrysville, Reindeer, and Ellay. Upon being used on a party member they are healed 100 HP. It costs $75 upon purchase.
It serves as the cheap counterpart of the LifeUpCream, which can completely heal a given party member. However, unlike LifeUpCream, it is nowhere to be found in any of the gift boxes in the game. This means that the only way to obtain a SportsDrink would be to buy it from a town’s department store. Given its fairly cheap price, it serves as a good mid to late-game item to keep around such as in the Yucca Desert. It is recommended not to buy it early on in Podunk because, like LifeUpCream, Ninten’s HP is low enough that it can be fully healed with PSI LifeUp or a hamburger for a cheaper price. Once Ninten reaches a certain level, around when his HP reaches 100, a Sports Drink is good to keep around.
Because a Sports Drink only costs $75 compared to the expensive LifeUpCream, the later the player is into the game the easier it becomes to purchase it as enemies being to drop more money. If possible, stocking up on Sports Drinks for Lloyd gives the player more leeway in healing the party. Once the player progresses through the Swamp and ventures into Mt. Itoi, the last area, the SportsDrink becomes obsolete as a result of the man in the white house just before the underground cave giving free LifeUpCreams, which are superior in healing a member to full health completely.
== Trivia ==
* EarthBound’s equivalent to the SportsDrink is the Protein drink, healing for 80 HP instead of 100 and can be found in gift boxes. It can be found in the Fourside Department Store, although given the significantly higher HP level ups of characters in EarthBound compared to its predecessor it is not as potent.
* In the companion guide, it is called "Sports Drink" in all versions of the game.
** Its description reads, "Here's another HP-recovery item. A little more than 1.5 times as effective as a Hamburger. Since it recovers quite a bit, it might not be bad to take on long trips. They sell it at the Department Store's food shop.".
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