The Video Game Soda Machine Project
Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Deus Ex: The Fall, a spin-off from the main series featuring protagonist Ben Saxon, launched on mobile devices in 2014 and was later ported to Windows. The screenshot above is from the Windows version and features lower polygon-count versions of the vending machines that appeared in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Thanks for the screenshot, Trundles!
Not only is Invisible War widely hailed as the best Deus Ex, but it also has the most visually engaging soda machines!
Deus Ex: Revision, a fan project with official recognition from Square Enix, updates the soda machine mode from the original Deus Ex!
H₂O Boost from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is artificially colored, flavored water — which qualifies as “close enough to soda” for our purposes. Ishanti is already in the archive.
The tipped-over vending machine on the right is already cataloged here at the site, but the one of the left is a new addition!
Soda machines from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided — complete with “pro-human” slogans. Thanks, @sonicalpha!
Soda machine as implement of death in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Anna: “Are you sure you pressed the right button?”
Gunther: “I do not make mistakes of that kind.”
Anna: “Your hand might have slipped.”
Gunther: “No. I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime.”
Anna: “The machine would not make a mistake…”
Gunther: “It’s the maintenance man. He knows I like orange.”
Anna: “So you think the staff has some kind of plot…”
Gunther: “Yes. They do it on purpose.”
It’s also worth noting that Deus Ex was brilliantly marketed with its soda machines front and center in print advertisements…
