Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Honestly, Dolucky no Kusayakiu for the Super Famicon feels like less a baseball game with Coca-Cola product placement than a Coca-Cola advertisement with a baseball game tacked on as an afterthought. Regardless, there’s a Coke machine featured in this scene.
On the run from unspeakable horror in Welcome to Hanwell? Put a little pep in your step with Dat Cola!
Reap souls, elude the Agents of Light, and maybe set aside a moment or two for a carbonated beverage in Death Coming. A snow-capped version of the soda machine appears in the screenshot below.
Vending Machine is an educational game for Android that promises to familiarize kids with the “vocabulary associated with using a vending machine.” As an educator myself, I wholeheartedly endorse this effort.
Pachiokun: Juuban Shoubu is a pachinko game for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 that achieves the perfect balance of puzzle solving, silver balls, and soda machines.
Give a little whistle and alert your zombie crew to this vintage cola machine from Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse!
America’s Army 3 invites you to enjoy Cherry Skrunk! In related news, Cherry Skrunk has instantly rocketed into my top ten fictional video game soda brands.
SWAT: Global Strike Team is a PS2/Xbox spin-off from the main Police Quest/SWAT series. In this scene, I’m trying to figure out how to use the D-pad to order my squad to stand this Whizz Pop machine upright.
The narrator describes this hallway from WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.01 as filthy, but it looks like someone is at least keeping the soda machine polished and shined. Thanks, Cornelius!
Tom Clancy presents a trio of soda machines in Rainbow Six: Lockdown!
The break room in Doctor Life: Be a Doctor is tricked out with a soda machine and a pinball machine. What more could anyone want? Thanks, Jonah!
There will be plenty of time for ramen later. For now, let’s focus instead on this soda machine from Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm.
Time travelers have erased the sport of soccer from history in Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone for the Nintendo 3DS! Take solace in the fact that, even in this dystopian alternate timeline, humankind’s advances in beverage vending technology remain unassailable.
I love the concept behind Back in 1995, a faithful recreation of PlayStation 1-era survival horror and mystery games — soda machines and all! Here’s the same scene with CRT emulation enabled for maximum nostalgia…
Special Forces: Nemesis Strike is yet another covert ops game with what sounds like a bunch of cool action-y words strung together at random, but you can’t fault its vending options.