Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
WWE Brawl, a cartoony wrestling game under development at THQ, was canceled way back in 2011. Fortunately, WWE released some “lost” gameplay footage in 2016 and, lo and behold, there’s a soda machine in the background! You can spot another soda machine in the game’s trailer below.
Check out this soda machine from Dead Matter, an upcoming “rogue-lite” zombie apocalypse sandbox survival game. For what it’s worth, Teeth Poison is officially in the running for my favorite video game soda brand of all time. Here’s another soda machine from the game’s trailer…
Haunted Halls: Revenge of Doctor Blackmore describes itself as “mind-bending journey into the realm of the weird.” Specifically, prepare to have your mind bent during a layover in the realm of Chernobyl, where the player encounters this weird soda machine.
This scene from Escape the Museum requires the player to pour a can of soda on a live fuse box to unlock a security door. That hardly seems safe.
Trick out your garage with soda and coffee machines in Gear Club Unlimited for the Nintendo Switch [Source]
Beeswing is a hand-drawn RPG set in rural Scotland. This scene references a character purchasing a chocolate bar from the vending machine, but a closer look reveals a few bottles on the shelves amongst the candy.
Pixel People need pixel pop, so it’s a good thing there’s a pair of soda machines outside the pharmacy in this mobile city-building sim.
Well, lookie what we have here, boys: a coupla Hickola pop machines from Redneck Rampage: Suckin’ Grits on Route 66.
Evil clown Violent J prepares to dive off a soda machine and onto hard partying enthusiast Andrew W.K. in Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood for the PS2!
This is a decent soda machine from a really bad Game Boy Color game based on an even worse movie—namely, Adam Sandler’s Little Nicky.