Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
There’s a pair of soda machines lining this alleyway from Echo Tokyo: Phoenix, an upcoming cyberpunk visual novel where players assume of the role of the newest pilot in the city’s Mana Defense Force.
Echo Tokyo also features the same alleyway and soda machines with the Cyberpunk Pink dialed back in favor of Cyberpunk Blue.
Apex Legends is the hot new battle royale game in town, and you better believe it has soda machines!
It’s pair of vending machines from The Powerbabe Game, an unannounced and unreleased title for the PlayStation 2. Special thanks to Andrew Borman , Curator of Digital Games at The Strong Museum for submitting this one!
You’ll want to re-energize with a drink from one of these vending machines before heading off to solve a murder mystery most foul in Konohana 4: Yami o Harau Inori for the PlayStation 2!
First I get left behind on Earth in Rapture Rejects, and now the vending machine is busted and I have to settle for booze instead? The end times are the worst.
The Pedestrian is a puzzle platformer based around manipulating and traversing public signage. Trust me — it all makes sense once you see it in action. Anyway, the developers were kind enough to send me this screenshot of the game’s Wilford Brimley-themed soda machine.
Save your progress with a drink from this SΔVΣD VϕP vending machine in Broken Reality, a memeified adventure set inside a 3D representation of the internet. [Source]
Be careful not to run aground on the unforgiving shoals of these waterfront soda machines from mobile boat ’em up Battle Bay. Thanks for the screenshot, Coregon!
Take a crack at deconstructing, unpacking, and problematizing the soda machines from YIIK: A Postmodern RPG.
Thanks, Adamant!
Build your own video game soda machine video games with the built-in video game soda machine asset from Game Builder, a video game platform for building video games (with soda machines).
Thanks for the screenshot, Cornelius!
I’d love to learn more about the intricately crafted lore surrounding these vending machines from Kingdom Hearts 3, but the shortest explainer video I can find on YouTube is two and a half hours long. Thanks for the screenshot, Andrew!
Bubba Cola is the choice of the zombie generation in Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition. Thanks for putting this one on my radar, Cornelius! [Source]
How am I supposed to enjoy a drink from the vending machine in Dark Times when I can’t get past this security barrier?
I agree with Coach. Stay hydrated with H₂Oasis in Rec Room, a VR social hangout game.
Thanks for the screenshots, Cornelius!
Get amped up on sugar and caffeine before you enter the confines of the steel cage in GetAmped2, a massively multiplayer fighting game. (Yes, my avatar has a lightsaber.)