Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
I’m bummed out that arena shooter Capsular jumped on the name USoda before I could launch my subscription-based video game soda streaming service. Thanks for letting me know about this one, Cornelius!
Reviewers describe Help Me Doctor as a cheap Papers, Please knockoff set in the healthcare industry, but as glorious as Arstotzka might be, it doesn’t have any soda machines.
These Crash and Cold Drinks vending machines from H1Z1 are already in the archive, but the Bison Blue energy drink machine is a new addition. Thanks for the screenshot, Cornelius!
Look, if you expect me to socialize with a bunch of total strangers in VRChat, your virtual world better have at least a couple dozen soda machines to keep me entertained.
Once more unto the Breach, dear friends, for these fine vending machines. Thanks for the screenshot, Jason!
Given its courtside placement, I can only assume this Schweppes drink machine from Pete Sampras Tennis 97 (DOS) sprouts arms and legs and runs around retrieving loose tennis balls. Thanks for tracking this one down, ᴛosʜiʙᴀᶜᵒʳᵉ! [Source]
These soda machines from indie horror adventure Locked Fears are stock assets that have appeared in numerous games (e.g. Capsa, Estranged: Act II, Emily Wants to Play Too, Project Lambda, SCUM). At this point, stumbling across one of them is like bumping into an old friend. [Source]
I feel like the ad wizards who conjured up this fictional soda brand for CastleAbra could have focus tested the name a bit more.
Move the chair, pick up some washers, grab a pair of pliers, clean away the debris, plug in the vending machine, use the washers as coins, “purchase” an Adrenaline Cola, and dislodge it from the machine’s dispensing tray with the pliers in Trapmaker: A Kate Gray Murder Mystery.
What’s more romantic than stealing a kiss in front of a vending machine—under the watchful eye of the totalitarian Ministry, of course—in Beholder 2?
If the goal in DARK INSIDE is to loot an abandoned town, I suggest starting with these Shize and Bolt Energy vending machines.
Horror! Mystery! Time loops! Soda machines! Third Exit has all the makings of an outstanding adventure game.
The Caped Crusader, the Last Son of Krypton, and the Cybernetic Sentinel (a nickname I just made up for Cyborg) encounter several blocky soda machines in LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes! Thanks for your heroic work on this one, Cornelius.
