Signs of the Sojourner
Signs of the Sojourner is a deck-building game about conversations and relationships. In my experience, nothing brings a person and a cat person together quite like an ice-cold soda straight from the vending machine.
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VirtuaVerse
I was already sold on VirtuaVerse as a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game with gorgeous pixel art graphics. Throw in a drink machine with this kind of selection, and how can I resist?
Thanks for the screenshots, Ernie!
Final Fantasy VII: Remake
I’m gonna have to say this Don Corneo vending machine from Final Fantasy VII: Remake is simultaneously one of the most sublime and horrifying video game soda machines I’ve ever seen. [Source]
Fight the Horror
I can only assume Blood Wine Jelly — seen here in survival RPG Fight the Horror — is what vampires hand out at their frat parties instead of Jello shots.
Sabrina: The Animated Series – Zapped!
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.
Streets of Rage 4
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.
Moving Out
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?
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way
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
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…
Train Station Renovation
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.