The Video Game Soda Machine Project
Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
The new Busan map hit Overwatch’s Public Test Region earlier today, and it features these awesome D.Va-endorsed Nano Cola machines! Blizzard also released concept art of the soda machine and other assorted Nano Cola stuff.
Meanwhile, these drink machines appear in the MEKA pilot cafeteria (along with a pair of touchscreen soda fountains).
I’m excited that we’re finally getting some lore on Overwatch’s soda cans in the latest animated short. Specifically, they talk!
Defuse enough bombs without accidentally blowing your coworkers to smithereens and you’ll earn a visit to the break room vending machines in Bomb Corp. (part of The Jackbox Party Pack 2)!
Inspecting some soda machines that look like they just stepped out of a PS1 game in retro horror thriller Power Drill Massacre. Thanks for the screenshot, r3l0z!
The Misfits is an Early Access arena shooter featuring these halftone vending machines — including everyone’s favorite, Sodar Pop! Let’s take a closer look…
Thanks for the screenshots, Cornelius!
These poor citizens are trapped under soda machines while Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl just stand there and gawk at them. No wonder they outlawed supers.
Cue up “Chantaje” by Shakira (featuring Maluma) in Just Dance Now and shake your groove thing over to the vending machine on the far left for a snack and a refreshing soda.
Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania game that just hit Early Access, complete with snazzy soda machines. As an added bonus, you receive a few pieces of gold if you successfully drop the empty cans into the recycling bin! Thanks for the screenshot, Dominic!
Ho ho ho! It seems old Saint Nick left a cola machine under the Christmas tree in this rather depressing bar from first-person explore ’em up ShadowSide. Thanks for the screenshot, Cornelius. [Source]
I don’t recommend shaking down the vending machines in Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass for cash. You wouldn’t like them when they’re angry.
Honestly, a gorilla crushing lightning bolts sounds pretty awesome. Put me down for a six-pack of Xtreme Thunder.
Later in the game, there’s also a high-level version of the Vendotron called the Vendomax. In addition to snacks, it vends Boom Pop and Energy Rex.
Thanks for the screenshots, Dominic!
Okay, so it’s entirely possible I skipped through a bunch of dialogue boxes to grab this soda machine screenshot from Persona 2: Innocent Sin and didn’t get that Sumaru Prison is a live music venue and not, you know, an actual prison. That explains all the instruments and amps and stuff.
Nakano Broadway is a popular shopping destination in Tokyo for all things anime and manga, and it makes an appearance — complete with soda machines — in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory for the PS4!
A friendly policeman takes me on a tour of a London Underground station and its fine vending machines in Zombi (a.k.a. ZombiU for the Wii U).
Sylvia, narrator and assassin wrangler from No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, briefs Travis Touchdown on his upcoming mission while sitting in front of the vending machine outside Burger Suplex.
I’m not sure which is a better name, Travis Touchdown or Burger Suplex. [Source]
Jill peeks out of her mech to inspect the soda selection in Drill Dozer for the Game Boy Advance. Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Tanukitsune!
