The Video Game Soda Machine Project
Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Harley and Robin encounter a soda machine at the zoo gift shop in LEGO Batman: The Video Game!
Here’s another look courtesy of Cornelius…
As far as I know, every other soda machine in the LEGO video game franchise is made out of LEGO parts, which makes this soda machine something of an outlier.
Say what you will about Abstergo Industries, but you can’t fault their vending machine aesthetics in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. As seen below, the same machine later reappears in Assassin’s Creed Rogue.
Ready for a devilishly good drink? Try Zombie Zoda from Alcatraz: Prison Escape. Thanks for the screenshot, Albert!
I found these soda machines while skating around in Jet Set Radio (not that I need an excuse to play Jet Set Radio).
Crime Wave, pictured above for the Atari ST and DOS, has its share of soda machines!
A Skunk Cola machine from AR-K, featuring all three varieties (listed by addiction strength).
HULK SMASH SODA MACHINE! [Source]
Geist for GameCube — finally, a game that lets me turn into a ghost and possess a soda machine!
This whole sequence is a great example of Geist’s puzzle-solving gameplay. The protagonist possesses the soda machine, rattles it to shoot out some soda cans, dispossesses the machine, possesses one of the cans, rolls it across the room, and pops it open to freak out a scientist. Take a look…
TFW you witness an otherwise unassuming soda machine dragging someone through a portal to an alternate dimension. [Source]
