Hatris
Hatris for the NES styles its stage select screen as a soda machine. Sure, it’s like putting a hat on a hat, but I’ll allow it!
I have no idea how this one flew under my radar for so long.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
This is a big one, folks! Greg Hassett’s 1978 TRS-80 text adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth features the Coke machine described above, which means the Video Game Soda Machine Project just found a soda machine five years older than 1983’s Catch-A-Coke!
Catch-A-Coke still features the oldest graphical soda machine in the archive, but this is now the earliest confirmed soda machine appearance in a video game.
Minecraft
Fallout’s Wasteland comes to Minecraft, blocky Nuka-Cola machines and all, in 2024’s official Vault-Tec Mash-Up!
High on Life 2
High on Life 2 is a surreal, candy-colored fever dream where talking guns, bizarre aliens, and questionable consumer products are the norm, so this Bounty Juice vending machines fits right in.
Here are two more soda machines from the game.
The Sims 2: Apartment Pets
You can’t run a proper pet spa in The Sims 2: Apartment Pets without a vending machine or two! First up, we have a standard vending machine that sells soda and bottled water.
Upscale clientele might prefer the deluxe model that dispenses “everything but the kitchen sink.”
Or, you know, if you hail from the distant future, maybe the Ultimate Vending Machine is more your style.
Finally, here are the icons for each vending machine from the game’s furniture menu.
The Nine Lives of Secret Agent Katt
I can’t speak for TONY, SAL, VINNIE, or MARIA, but I’d definitely grab a cold drink from this soda machine in the DOS spy thriller, The Nine Lives of Secret Agent Katt!
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Dead Space (2023)
Sure, things aren’t going great aboard the Ishimura, but at least nobody has taken a plasma cutter to the Sun Cola machines (yet).
This screenshot is from the 2023 remastered version of Dead Space. You can compare it with the original Sun Cola model in the archive.
Final Fantasy XIV
Dawntrail, the current Final Fantasy XIV expansion, added these soda machines to the long-running MMORPG. If you ask me, they should have waited for the upcoming January 2027 expansion, Evercold.
Thanks for the screenshots, Harrison!
Total Drama Action: Best. Game. Ever.
I don’t know if this 2009 Flash game based on Cartoon Network’s Total Drama Action is really the best game ever, but it has a vending machine that sells energy drinks, so it can’t be that bad!
Overwatch
I took a quick break from my ranked match to grab a screenshot of this soda machine from Overwatch. I think it’s a new asset added for the Busan map rework in Season 4, but it’s also possible I just never noticed it until now. Possible, but unlikely.