<Tr> <Th> Slogan </Th> <Td> "Wetter Is Better!" (classic) "It's Nerf or Nothin'!" (present) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> Super Soaker is a brand of recreational water gun that utilizes manually - pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt pistols . The Super Soaker was invented in 1982 by engineer Lonnie Johnson . The prototype combined PVC pipe, acrylic glass, and an empty plastic soda bottle . </P> <P> Originally sold by Larami and now produced by Hasbro under the Nerf brand, Super Soaker has generated more than $1 billion in total sales . The first Super Soaker went on sale in 1990 and was originally called the Power Drencher, or the "Shaw" because of its ability to shoot straight and narrow . Rebranding the name to Super Soaker occurred in 1991 together with a series of TV advertisements that resulted in 2 million water guns being sold . Super Soakers were popular for many years--so popular, in fact, that the term super soaker is sometimes used generically, to refer to any type of toy pressurized water gun . </P>

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