Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
It seems some of the AI problems that have dogged Aliens: Colonial Marines since its 2013 release were the result of a single typo in an INI file. Sadly, fixing a few typos isn’t enough to liven up the game’s utilitarian vending machines.
Exterminate your thirst with Extermination, a survival horror game for the PlayStation 2.
Just playing some LawBreakers before it goes offline in a couple of months. If you can’t get enough of that tea-infused cola taste, there’s another Chabi Cola machine in the archives.
I also stumbled across this, uh, let’s call it a “beverage station” while playing. It definitely offers soda and has a dispensing tray, so I’m going to say it’s sci-fi soda machine adjacent.
Pocket Rumble for the Nintendo Switch brings a Neo Geo Pocket aesthetic to the 2D fighting genre, complete with scan line-enhanced soda machines. Thanks for the screenshot, Pablo!
I tasered my way through a subway station full of chainsaw-wielding gang members to capture these drink machines from Urban Chaos: Riot Response for the PlayStation 2.
After a long day of classes, what better way to spend your time in Persona 3 FES than roaming the hallways of Gekkou High in search of soda machines? You can compare these vending machines to their counterparts in Persona 3 Portable here.
Thank you, sir; I get that a lot. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to take a closer look at those soda machines behind you.
Thanks, Tikhon, for tracking down these other soda machines scattered throughout Persona 4 Golden for the PlayStation Vita.
This is the first entry of its kind for the Video Game Soda Machine Project: a pair of soda machines from Persona 4’s “Lucky Me!” PlayStation trophy image. The trophy is unlocked when one of the game’s vending machines dispenses a free drink at random.
I tried to come up with a decent coffee filter/Syphon Filter joke to accompany these vending machines from Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain for the PS2, but I came up empty. I guess you’ll just have to settle for the screenshot.
Here’s another vending machine from later in the game, but it’s a little difficult to tell whether it’s selling soda or cigarettes.
You’d think a science fantasy space station would have more visually engaging vending machines than this drab lineup from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for the Nintendo Switch. [Source]
Billy Bob’s Huntin’ and Fishin’ for the Game Boy Color features the classic “catch enough soda cans to earn a fishing license” video game trope.
This vending machine appeared in Red Bull’s House of Skate area for the PlayStation Home platform. Input the correct button sequence, and win in-game Red Bull swag!
PlayStation Home’s Namco Arcade Center was also outfitted with an interactive soda machine — situated in a prime spot right next to Pac-Man, no less!
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This vending machines from Red Faction Guerrilla has been completely re-Mars-tered in the game’s recent re-release. Thanks for the screenshot, Cornelius!
A soda machine rewards parched players with a frosty beverage at the end of each level in HellMaze.
It’s hard to tell for certain whether this vending machine from 007: NightFire for the Game Boy Advance dispenses sodas, but then again, it’s hard to tell much about anything in this game.