Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Okay, so it’s entirely possible I skipped through a bunch of dialogue boxes to grab this soda machine screenshot from Persona 2: Innocent Sin and didn’t get that Sumaru Prison is a live music venue and not, you know, an actual prison. That explains all the instruments and amps and stuff.
Nakano Broadway is a popular shopping destination in Tokyo for all things anime and manga, and it makes an appearance — complete with soda machines — in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory for the PS4!
A friendly policeman takes me on a tour of a London Underground station and its fine vending machines in Zombi (a.k.a. ZombiU for the Wii U).
Sylvia, narrator and assassin wrangler from No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, briefs Travis Touchdown on his upcoming mission while sitting in front of the vending machine outside Burger Suplex.
I’m not sure which is a better name, Travis Touchdown or Burger Suplex. [Source]
Jill peeks out of her mech to inspect the soda selection in Drill Dozer for the Game Boy Advance. Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Tanukitsune!
Shrek storms the castle in Shrek the Third on Wii, only to discover a vending machine that dispenses barrels of whatever the G-rated equivalent of grog is. Here’s the same scene from the PlayStation Portable release…
Look, I was okay with the Xenomorphs mercilessly killing everyone on board my space station in Alien: Isolation, but I absolutely draw the line at harming innocent soda machines. Thanks for the screenshot, JackMontegue!
Hit-Girl will have to punch her way past this ruffian if she wants to enjoy an ice-cold soda in Kick-Ass for the PlayStation 3.
Online hangout Habbo Hotel introduced these funky soda machines as part of a 2009 cross-promotional campaign with Crush soda. Let’s take a closer look…
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The red version of this drink machine previously appeared in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, but Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo for the 3DS adds white and blue variations. Thanks for the screenshot, Arychii!