Category: Final Fantasy Series

Final Fantasy VII Remake features vending machines that sell potions and music. Is this like one of those promotional campaigns where you get a free iTunes download code from inside the cap of a 7 Up bottle, or what?

This next vending machines only raises further questions…

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I’m awarding bonus points to this Energy Drink Potion machine from Final Fantasy VII remake for its savvy bench ads. After all, bench advertising is a cost-efficient way to generate high impressions and enhance brand recognition across a wide demographic range. Even a mercenary like Cloud Strife knows that’s good business.

Thanks for the screenshot, Oscar!

Spike McLeod poses in front of some drink machines in Final Fantasy VII. I still can’t believe they changed his name for the remake.

Thanks for alerting me to this one, Eric!

It’s always been my fantasy to travel on a train swanky enough to have its own drink machine, and thanks to Final Fantasy XV : Pocket Edition, that fantasy is now a reality. Thanks for the screenshot, lookat!

Snow is rebuffed in his heroic attempt to buy Hope a soft drink from this vending machine in Final Fantasy XIII. [Source]

The same soda machine also appears in Final Fantasy XIII-2, as seen in the screenshot below…

Thanks to satsumaclementine and Cornscope for helping me track these down!

The red soda machine from Final Fantasy XV is already in the archive, but the blue models are brand new. Thanks for the screenshot, Chris!

Just for good measure, here’s the Ebony coffee vending machine from Final Fantasy XV: Episode Prompto.

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Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition brings an adorably cute version of the game to mobile phones — including the vending machines! You can compare these to the original in the archive.

Cloud purchases a drink from the Wall Market inn’s vending machine in Final Fantasy VII!

A vending machine from Final Fantasy XV that sells energy drinks (among other things)! [Source]

A pair of soda machines from Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Thanks, Jonah!

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

There’s a row of vending machines, soda and otherwise, at Shinra headquarters in the PlayStation Network release of Final Fantasy 7. Thanks, @eboy71!

Shinra Gym Health Drink from Final Fantasy VII: soda, health tonic, or mystery beverage? Thanks, @mairin!