Cold Fear

Playing Cold Fear? Treat yourself to a cold drink. Thanks, HitTheSnake!
Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture

Playing Cold Fear? Treat yourself to a cold drink. Thanks, HitTheSnake!

It’s a row of Vendroid vending machines from Habitat, LucasArts’ groundbreaking 1986 graphical MMORPG. Thanks to Robert for capturing this screenshot in NeoHabitat, an open-source revival of the original game for modern systems!

There’s more to this soda machine from mobile beat-’em-up Rockabilly Beatdown than meets the eye…

Thanks to Rumblecade for sending this my way!

I think it’s obvious what happened in this scene from Emergency 2017. The bicyclist was distracted by that soda machine and slammed into a car.

Duke encounters a cola vending machine while blasting his way through a grocery store in Duke Nukem Advance for the GBA!
Here’s an earlier design for a Duke Cola machine that was cut from Duke Nukem Advance prior to the game’s release.

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Judging by the size of these vending machines from Pixel Gun 3D, that water cooler is inordinately tall. Or, considering the door frame, perhaps the vending machines are just exceptionally short.

Woody, disguised as a cup of soda, dodges the cans dispensed by this Pizza Planet vending machine in Toy Story for the Genesis! Here’s the same scene from the Game Boy release. The SNES version is already in the archive.

Thanks for the screenshot, Jon!