Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
If Headhunter for the PS2 has taught me anything, it’s that nothing washes away the pain of a brutally unforgiving stealth shooter like an ice-cold Sunny. I have no idea why the vending machine is only four feet tall.
Just for fun, here’s an advertisement for Must Power Drink that appear on Headhunter’s loading screens.
Kim’s hunt for the nefarious Professor Dementor leads her to Japan and this lineup of stylized soda machines in Kim Possible: What’s the Switch? for the PlayStation 2.
I guess you could say Martian Manhunter is really J’onzz-ing for a soda in this screenshot from Justice League Heroes for the PlayStation 2.
After writing 1,650 of these blurbs to accompany screenshots here at The Video Game Soda Machine Project, I can appreciate the simplicity of “found a vending machine.” Thanks, Tikhon!
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.