Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
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!
You can lead a horse to the Klopp! soda machine in equine stealth-’em-up St. Hazel’s Horsepital, but you can’t make it drink.
The Persona series is a reliable source for drink machines, and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth for the Nintendo 3DS is no exception. Thanks for the screenshot, Tikhon!
Ninjas! Rival schools! Mysterious islands! Soda machines! Senran Kagura: Estival Versus has it all. Thanks for the screenshot, @pornski_eros!
Bethesda has offered us glimpses of Fallout 76’s upcoming player-operated vending machines in the past, but this new screenshot confirms that a miniature Nuka-Cola machine is definitely part of the setup. Here’s a closer look…
Even better, it’s available in multiple colors!
Finally, Bethesda heard I liked vending machines, so they slapped an image of a vending machine on this vending machine. Anyway, the instructions posted on the new legendary exchange machine from Fallout 76 include this Nuka-Cola machine sticker…
A remastered version of the Samurai Soda machine from the first Phoenix Wright game is back in the new Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy HD. Thanks for the screenshot, Sarcasmotron!
