The Video Game Soda Machine Project
Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
The Dynamic Duo doesn’t stand a chance of recovering Bruce Wayne’s Gotham City Man of the Year trophy from the Joker if they aren’t properly hydrated. Luckily, there’s a soda machine in LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes for iOS. How convenient!
In addition to the Tana Cola machines already in the archive, Far Cry also features this spiffy retro soda machine! [Source]
What’s a Little Hidden City without a little hidden soda machine? Thanks for finding this one, Ben!
Phantom Forces is a popular Roblox FPS featuring a whole bunch of soda machines. In fact, the machine pictured above is currently part of a Roblox-wide scavenger hunt to promote the impending release of Ready Player One. Here are a few more from the game…
Tower Unite bills itself as a “virtual party world,” and everybody knows you can’t have a party without soda! [Source]
Agent 47 struggles to choose between mandarin orange and kiwi in Hitman (2016). Thanks, CK!
Soccer Kid, star of Soccer Kid for the 3DO, appears nonplussed by this pop machine. Here’s the same machine on the SNES, where the game is retitled The Adventures of Kid Kleets.
Thanks, Adam!
Swing by the truck stop in Highway Blossoms and treat yourself to a refreshing Supahfizz soda. Thanks for the screenshot, Cornelius!
If by “always do things this way,” you mean “obsessively collect screenshots of video game soda machines,” the answer is yes. Thanks, Cornelius!
Our eponymous hero leaps over a soda machine in the Atari ST version of Rolling Ronny. Here’s the Commodore 64 release for comparison…
Thanks for the tip, BenBax!
There’s a Super Chill soda machine hiding behind this neon bullet storm in Ground Shatter’s upcoming FPS, RICO!
According to its description on Steam, The Long Reach “misuses stunning pixel art to create gruesome and unsettling images.” Well, as far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing gruesome or unsettling about these soda machines. Thanks, Pablo!
The US release of Dog’s Life for the PS2 includes Frontier soda machines (named after the developer, Frontier Developments). However, the European version swaps in Pedigree branding, which raises the question: Is it a dog food vending machine, or does Pedigree soda exist in the Dog’s Life-iverse?
Thanks to Frank Cifaldi for the submission! Check out the incredible work he’s doing over at The Video Game History Foundation.
