Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
Magical girl Hinako Shirai prepares to cast a teleportation spell in front of some soda machines in Blue Reflection for the PS4!
Meanwhile, here’s a vending machine out in the middle of nowhere. Maybe there’s a power outlet in one of those rocks or something?
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Iji, a freeware platformer for Windows, introduces us to XTreme Drinkz and their catchy slogan, “Drink or die!” Thanks, Thunder Swordsman!
The night is dark and full of terrors in Yomawari: Midnight Shadows. Good thing there’s a soda machine to light your way!
You know, 75 cents is actually pretty cheap for an energy drink in Hewitt, a browser-based point-and-click adventure game.
It’s a row of ancient Roman soda machines from Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum for the PS2!
UPDATE: A remastered version of the game is being released for the PlayStation 4 in November 2018, and Pablo was kind enough to send this screenshot from the new edition…
This zombie from No More Room in Hell is dying for a drink. Lucky for him, this Coleman Cola machine appears to be well-stocked.
Innocent Until Caught, a 1993 DOS adventure game, features this vending machine — conveniently located next to a cola advertisement! Here it is in the Amiga port…
Thanks, David!
Sadly, this scene from Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick doesn’t devolve into a slapstick fight between Ash and a possessed soda machine.
High Hell, a neon-soaked FPS from Devolver Digital, features these soda machines scattered around the levels!
The Solar Blue soda machine from Con Man: The Game is a decent Firefly reference, but I want to know more about that fish vending machine!
The pop machines from Hurricanes for the Sega Genesis shoot soda cans at the game’s soccer star protagonists! Here’s the machine as it appears in the Game Gear release…
Not only is Invisible War widely hailed as the best Deus Ex, but it also has the most visually engaging soda machines!
Deus Ex: Revision, a fan project with official recognition from Square Enix, updates the soda machine mode from the original Deus Ex!
H₂O Boost from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is artificially colored, flavored water — which qualifies as “close enough to soda” for our purposes. Ishanti is already in the archive.
The tipped-over vending machine on the right is already cataloged here at the site, but the one of the left is a new addition!