Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Life Up Here describes itself as “Animal Crossing meets Grand Theft Auto,” which is a compelling elevator pitch if I’ve ever heard one. The laundry room vending machine pictured here dispenses soda, lemonade, water, and speed-boosting NRG Soda.
Manage a coin-op menagerie, complete with soda and snack machines, in Tiny Arcade.
I checked Wikipedia, and as far as I can tell, Need for Weed: Project Budosaur isn’t an official spin-off from the Need for Speed series. Nevertheless, it features this lovely Sprit vending machine.
Battle the nefarious Fizzy Corp and their ubiquitous soda machines in Freakout: Calamity TV Show, a Smash TV-inspired dual-stick shooter.
Hot Zomb: Zombie Survival is here to remind us that when the zombs are hot, nothing cools you off like a frosty soda.
Sorry, Noodle Man, but I’m here looking for soda machines.
Even if my bus was rigged to explode if it dropped below 50 mph, I’d still slow down and scope out this soda machine in Bus Driver. Thanks for the screenshot, Cornelius!
Keep your food and drink meter topped off with a soda from this vending machine in Nend.io, a browser-based city survival sim.
I’ll never forget these monochrome soda machines from Memories, a pixel art adventure.
Troll Face Quest USA Adventure promises to “take you on a journey through many of America’s most legendary tales.” I don’t know about all that, but I appreciate the effort that went into this Trola Cola machine.