Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Thanks to a spell gone awry, Sabrina has transmogrified everyone at her school into animals in Sabrina: The Animated Series – Zapped! for the Game Boy Color. I guess the good news is that she has the school’s vending machines all to herself.
Despite a Berenstein Bears-magnitude Mandela effect surrounding the franchise, Streets of Rage 4 is the first game in the series to feature a soda machine.
Here’s some concept art of the same level, soda machines and all…
Finally, here are a couple of soda machines locked up behind a security checkpoint. Tragic.
The moving company sent me out on a job at the haunted AAAAAH-tari offices in Moving Out, and what did my little toaster-headed guy find but a soda machine?
I was streaming one of my all-time favorite games, stealth shooter No One Lives Forever 2, last night on Twitch when I encountered these retro soda machines. The blue one is already in the archive, but the yellow one is brand new!
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…
If you hand me a game called Train Station Renovation and expect me to do anything other than fill my renovated station with vending machines, you don’t know me very well.
Who needs a magical hat when you have the magic of carbonated sugar water? In addition to the thrills of millinerial 3D platforming, A Hat in Time’s Seal the Deal DLC also offers these fine vending machines.
Hats off to Katrina for the screenshot!
It’s been six years since an earthquake leveled the city of Shibuya in Chaos;Child, and it looks like the vending machine economy is finally starting to recover. Thanks for the screenshots, SalarymanDaishi!
There’s freshies on the super-jib in Tahoe, brah, but we’re gonna need to slam some caffeine before we get out there and shred the gnar in Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage for the Wii.
There’s even a member of Shaun’s crew who’s obsessed with soda machines. What a weirdo.
Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Matt!
The guy hanging out behind the konbini in The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 warns of impending doom, but I’m drawn to the soothing glow of the soda machines like a moth to the flame.
Here’s the same scene without the game’s staticky VHS camera filter.
With all these soda machines around, do we really even need to ask the protagonist of ANNIE: Last Hope if she’s okay?
Alternate blurb: So many soda machines in ANNIE: Last Hope, yet here I am without any loose change. Talk about a hard knock life! [Source]
A question from a trivia game about a hypothetical Shakespearean Coke machine counts as a video game soda machine, right?
So, do you think this soda machine from World End Syndrome is located outside of a restaurant and coffee shop that sells fishing gear on the side, or a fishing gear shop that dabbles in the cafe business? Either way, I admire the owner’s sense of entrepreneurship.
Here’s a look at Sazanami Street after dark…
Thanks for the screenshots, SalarymanDaishi!
I’m not quite convinced this is the ultimate vending machine, but who am I to argue with Takayuki? While this same drink machine previously appeared in √Letter, it received a visual upgrade for Root Letter: Last Answer. Thanks for the screenshot, SalarymanDaishi!
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!