
After a long day of parkour and zombie-killing in Dying Light, there’s nothing more refreshing than a frosty Jump Drink. Thanks for the screenshot, @Katanasteel1!
The Video Game Soda Machine Project
Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture

After a long day of parkour and zombie-killing in Dying Light, there’s nothing more refreshing than a frosty Jump Drink. Thanks for the screenshot, @Katanasteel1!

Check out this funky vending machine from Gravity Rush 2 on the PlayStation 4. It’s like the TARDIS of soda machines. Thanks for the screenshot, @_Jackalope_!

Tractor in the shop for repairs? Enjoy a Cool Splash soda while you wait. Thanks for the screenshot, @Nicolasie_!

Crossing Souls is still in development, but if this Groke machine is any indication, they seem to be making excellent progress. Thanks for the screenshot, @_Jackalope_!

A pair of vending machines (and a Pac-Man cameo) from Shadow Warrior 2. Thanks for the screenshot, @BookishGamer!

Speaking as someone who has encountered more than his fair share of fictional video game soda brands, I can’t help but respect a simple, nonsensical name like “Cold Riff” from Satellite Reign. Thanks for the screenshot, @Ironicus2000!

This soda machine from Giana Sisters for the Nintendo DS dispenses two-liter bottles of block-destroying soda. Here’s the same machine from the iOS remake:


Raven Software’s CyClones gets a lot of credit for its pioneering use of mouselook, but people tend to overlook its breakthroughs in video game soda machine technology. Thanks for the tip, @fmvstory!

Splinter Cell’s Chinh Cola is already in the archive, but that SoBe Adrenaline Rush machine is new. Thanks for the screenshot, @4JonahS!

Defy gravity, destroy scenery, and drink soda in third-person shooter Inversion. Thanks, @Syndarr!

I knew there must be a soda machine hiding somewhere in Final Fantasy XV, and here it is. Thanks for the screenshot, @radvon!

A reviewer once referred to Panic! (a.k.a. SWITCH) for the Sega CD as a game “for people on drugs, by people on drugs.” I can’t imagine why.

Thanks, @AmayirotAkago! [Source]

Travel back in time to the ’80s with these soda machines from “Zombies in Spaceland” mode in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. [Source]

Enjoy a Cool Drink machine in Dead Rising 3! The same vending machine pops up again in Dead Rising 4…

Witness intrepid photo journalist Frank West (in his festive holiday sweater) as he dashes past the Cool Drink machine. He’s covered wars, you know.