Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Sport Is What You Make It® thanks to this Powerade machine from Tony Hawk’s Project 8. The screenshot above is from the PlayStation 2 release. Here’s the same vending machine in the PlayStation Portable version.
I found out about this vending machine when I was flipping through an old issue of Official Xbox Magazine and the image below caught my eye.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory originally featured product placement in the form of Diet Sprite vending machines. Later versions of the game (presumably released after contracts expired) replaced these Diet Sprite machines with the generic models already archived here at The Video Game Soda Machine Project.
Sora snaps a selfie with a positively delightful snack and drink vending machine from Kingdom Hearts III! This game clearly holds the key(blade) to my heart. [Source]
Welcome to post-apocalyptic Ukraine and the not-so-distant future of 1985. Sure, the place is crawling with flesh-eating zombies, but at least some of the soda machines are still intact.
Most games aren’t willing to tackle pressing concerns like the humanization of the workforce, but Stranger Cases doesn’t shy away from social commentary. In fact, the game puts a human — well, robot — face on labor issues with this out-of-work bot and his vending machine wife.
Lix Cola is back in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, and Grine Vener was kind enough to capture this screenshot. Meanwhile, GunpowerdnBoom stumbled across this busted soda machine…
Someone at Ubisoft should repair that before the game goes live.
You’re a peculiar passenger touring Tokyo from the backseat of a taxi in Bird of Passage. Be sure to ask the driver to stop so you can hop our and inspect the local soda machines. Thanks for the screenshot, Cornelius!
These vending machines really put the “can” in Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill. This screenshot is from the original 1998 release. The remastered soda machines from the 2010 remake are already in the archive. Thanks for the screenshot, tjladuke5!
Crack open this Peanut Howler soda machine in mobile adventure Thickety Creek, and access the refreshing selection of Kola, Ginger Ale, and Cream Soda stashed inside.
Just for fun, here’s a screenshot of a bottle cap collection from elsewhere in the game…
My search for a missing pop singer in Adventure Escape: Starstruck eventually led me to this medical examiner’s office. I know I’m supposed to be searching for clues on the corpse or whatever, but I keep getting distracted by that soda machine out in the hallway.
Meet Guzzzy — the lovable soda mascot from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s new Zoo map! He’s absolutely the hero 2019 needs right now. Thanks for the screenshot, Julian!
Nancy Drew travels to Japan in 2010’s Shadow at the Water’s Edge. What does she find there? Mysteries, clues, ghosts — you know, the usual. But also soda machines!
One man’s vending machine trash is another man’s treasure in Scrappers, a robo-garbage pick ’em up from Q-Games. I spotted this game (and its attendant soda machines) in the latest issue of Game Informer, so that GameStop PowerUp Rewards membership is already paying off!
Take a chance with this Probabili-Tea vending machine from Two Point Hospital! Here it is lined up with all its drink machine brethren…
Thanks to HugeBrush on Reddit for the screenshots!
Tokyo Snap is an upcoming photography game inspired by Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64. I just wish this NPC would get out of the way so I can get a better look at those soda machines.