These ersatz Coke machines appear in Smombie GO, a game that challenges players to “explore town, find and eliminate all portals which generate Smombies unlimitedly.” It’s the Smobie apocalypse!
Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Cornelius!
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I’ll always remember this touching declaration of love — and the accompanying soda machine — from Don’t Forget Our Esports Dream, a visual novel set against the backdrop of the South Korean professional StarCraft scene. [Source]
Pokémon: Let’s Go! to the soda machine for a refreshing beverage. Thanks for the screenshot, Pablo!
This Wellcheers Ocean Soda machine appears in Lobotomy Corporation, a Korean monster management sim. I have no idea why those prawns are cosplaying as Minions.
Flavor text for the Wellcheers machine warns,”If someone offers you an opened can of grape-flavored soda, you must reject it.” According to the wiki, it’s a reference to “a Korean internet urban myth where people will allegedly go missing after drinking from a sleeping pill-laced opened can of Welch’s Grape Juice. They will then be abducted and held captive in fishing boats.” [Source]
These vending machines in front of the South Atlantic Supermarket in Daytona Beach ended up getting replaced by new models in The Crew 2. Thanks for the screenshots, Cornelius!
As a self-trained expert in video game soda machine law, I’d say they need to increase the blur effect on that logo by approximately 30% to square away this crypto-Coke machine in anime RPG Closers. [Source]
Okay, so it seems the new Leisure Suit Larry game has gone out of its way to troll me with an off-screen soda machine. How do I know I’m being trolled? Well, the game’s lead writer tweeted this a couple of months ago…
How could someone toy with my emotions like this? Thanks for the screenshot, Richard!
Even the soda machines are creepily corrupted in Silent Hill: Origins. Thanks for the screenshot, Andrew!