Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
If you buy just one goat-themed racing game where you scream into your microphone to steer a careening shopping card through treacherous obstacles this year, make it Supermarket Shriek. It even has soda machines!
Thanks to the fine folks over at Billy Goat Entertainment for the screenshots!
The first game my studio developed in Social Dev Story was a politician-themed pixel art card game titled Minister of Cards. We used the profits to buy these shiny new soda machines for the office!
Micro Vendor Adventures is a puzzle platformer where you play as a tiny robot who lives inside a vending machine. Your job is to deliver cans of ice-cold soda past a series of obstacles and safely into the hands of thirsty customers.
Metro Exodus takes us back to the subway tunnels of post-apocalyptic Russia, where our protagonist Artyom stumbles across this Soviet-era soda machine. Thanks for the screenshot, Dan!
Before you head over to that sushi place on Taihei Boulevard, grab a refreshing pre-dinner drink from this vending machine in attorney brawler Judgment (a.k.a. Judge Eyes: Shinigami no Yuigon).
Meanwhile, the Lucky Soda machines from the game previously appeared in Yakuza 6…
Thanks for the screenshots, AnTytle and DarthHelmet86!
Go easy on the Nun Cola in Evil Nun. I hear it’s habit-forming.
Tina and her robot pal S.A.M. stumble across a Rocket Soda machine on the rainy streets of Neo-Berlin in Encodya, an upcoming point-and-click cyberpunk adventure.
The soda machines from We Happy Restaurant (no relation to We Happy Few) occasionally stand up and rearrange themselves.
Thanks for the screenshots, Tikhon!
Curing the zombie virus that’s decimating humankind in Codename CURE is no easy task, but you can always settle for curing your thirst with this Popsi Cola machine instead. Thanks for the screenshot, Zachary!
The protagonist in Brexit-Man in Airportland: The Re-Brexiting needs to get his priorities straight. He’s gonna board that flight, the drink cart won’t come around for a good 45 minutes, and he’ll wish he had bought that nice cold soda back at the airport when he had the chance.
Duck inside this museum in Metaphobia, a point-and-click murder mystery, and beat the heat with a refreshing drink. Thanks for the screenshot, Papaya Chemist!
I appreciate the vending machine-centric worldbuilding in upcoming platformer Alight: “A young office worker, tiring of an endless life of paperwork, dreams of taking a leap of faith into the shining city below. A god of old, forsaken for centuries, reawakens to a future of neon wonder and vending machines.”
In addition to housing a rogue supercomputer and Fallout 76’s Nuclear Winter battle royale mode, Vault 51 is also home to a handful of Nuka-Cola machines left relatively unscathed by the atomic ravages of the Great War.
Dengeki Bunko: Crossing Void’s app store description…
Have you ever imagined such a world?
Where Asuna walks in Academy City with her sword in hand;
Shana eats her favorite melon bread in a forest of Aincrad;
Mikoto stares at a vending machine placed in Ikebukuro…
This subway platform soda machine — or, as Dr. Doofenshmirtz might refer to it, subterranean beverage-inator — appears in Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension for the Wii. Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Michelle!