Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
The opening cinematic from Chobits: Atashi Dake no Hito for the Game Boy Advance features the protagonist walking by a pair of soda machines as he exits a konbini. In the next scene, he finds an abandoned persocom — a personal computer in human form — in a pile of garbage. As one does.
Ikatan: Ikamono Tantei for the Nintendo DS is further proof that while it’s difficult to solve mysteries in a Japanese visual novel when you don’t speak Japanese, it’s not that hard to find soda machines.
Enroll at Takayama High School in Virtual Novel, an upcoming adventure game that combines the storytelling potential of a visual novel with the immersion of virtual reality and the refreshment of an ice-cold soda to craft an exhilarating gameplay experience.
Feeling standoffish? Maybe a refreshing soda will improve your mood in Durarara!! 3way standoff -alley- for the PlayStation Portable.
Photographs, an upcoming narrative puzzle-’em-up, welcomes us to the 1985 International Qualifiers! Once you’ve qualified, head downstairs, dive into a tray of cafeteria food, and treat yourself to an ice-cold, refreshing drink from the soda machine in the stairwell.
Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego? launched earlier today, and I tracked the criminal mastermind to Tokyo, Japan. Since the game is built around Google Earth’s satellite imagery and Street View tech, you know what that means…
Every outdoor soda machine in Tokyo is now fair game for The Video Game Soda Machine Project! I’m going to do my best to limit myself to just a few.
My Japanese is rusty (i.e. nonexistent), so I’m just going to assume this row of soda machines from Fuuraiki 2 for the PlayStation 2 is blocking the player’s entrance to a mystical forest populated by, I don’t know, cyclopses.
In a post-nuclear future where anthropomorphic ducks roam the Earth, it’s reassuring to know these soda machines from Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden have endured. Thanks for the screenshot, Chris!
I feel like this dude from Standby Say You! for the Sega Saturn is judging me for taking a screenshot of the soda machine from his game.
