Paprium is a homebrew Sega Genesis brawler due out later this year. to their credit, the developers appear to have painstakingly recreated the defining quality of the 16-bit beat ’em up genre: destructible soda machines.
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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
Pac-Man prepares to chomp down on a soda machine in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures! The same machine reappears in the sequel, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2.
Someone should probably tell Pac-Man that isn’t how soda machines work.
OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes
Swing by the Neo-Rama Game Center in OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes and indulge in two the life’s greatest joys: video games and soda machines.
Escapee GO!
Soda machines are scattered throughout Escapee GO!, a 2010 DSiWare game about a young woman locked away in an insane asylum by an evil company known only as… The Company.
Dead Island
My Yelp review of the Banoi Island Resort from Dead Island: “Under constant threat of violent murder by undead. Swimming pool filled with blood of fellow guests. Plenty of soda machines on premises. Three stars, would stay again.”
For what it’s worth, Dead Island’s concept art featured a Coca-Cola machine instead of the generic energy drink machine that appears above.
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Baseball Riot
Step up to the plate and hit a line drive at this Explodz energy drink machine from Baseball Riot!
Mega Man: Star Force Dragon
What to choose: BlackHole Cola or ZeroG Punch?
Mega Man Battle Network 5
Strangely, these unused 3D models appear in the code for Mega Man Battle Network 5 for the DS—strangely because MMBN5 is a 2D game. Anyway, there’s a 7-Eleven (which seems a bit out of place in the Mega Man universe) and a bunch of soda machines. [Source]
Mega Man Legends
I just realized I have a soda machine from the Mega Man Legends beta in the archive, but I didn’t have one from the final release. So, here it is!
Mega Man Battle Network 6
Choo, choooo! Hop aboard the soda machine train with Mega Man Battle Network 6!
Remember Me
Nilin is on a quest to recover her lost memories in Remember Me. Is this soda machine the key to unlocking a cherished recollection hidden deep in the corridors of her mind? Probably not!
Thanks, Cornelius!
Mercury: Cascade Into Madness
I guess Michelle is just too cool for soda in Mercury: Cascade Into Madness.
Thanks for the screenshots, Cornelius!
Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Pop on your night vision goggles for a better look at this soda machine from Splinter Cell: Blacklist! [Source]
WWE Brawl
WWE Brawl, a cartoony wrestling game under development at THQ, was canceled way back in 2011. Fortunately, WWE released some “lost” gameplay footage in 2016 and, lo and behold, there’s a soda machine in the background! You can spot another soda machine in the game’s trailer below.
Dead Matter
Check out this soda machine from Dead Matter, an upcoming “rogue-lite” zombie apocalypse sandbox survival game. For what it’s worth, Teeth Poison is officially in the running for my favorite video game soda brand of all time. Here’s another soda machine from the game’s trailer…
