Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
It’s a VoidKa vending machine from The Tomorrow Children. The word “karbonate” on the labeling suggests that it’s some kind of soft drink and not just straight up vodka.
Besides, in my experience, vodka rarely confers “increased organization acumen” or “spatial calculation prowess” upon the imbiber.
It’s a cold drinks machine from Hobo: Tough Life, a “city survival RPG” currently in Early Access.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to keep yourself properly caffeinated in Mission: Impossible for the PlayStation. Thanks, Littlenorwegians!
Flipping around the city and battling samurai works up a powerful thirst. Luckily, soda machines are plentiful in Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin!
The year is 20XX, and, um, Nepgear is…I don’t know. On a quest?
I give up. Here are some soda machines from Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2.
As soon as I get a status update on that penguin, I can devote my full attention to this soda machine from Mega Man Battle Network 6.
In Tokyo Xanadu did the Vita
A stately soda machine decree.
(Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.)
These vending machines from Tennis in the Face serve up Explodz energy drinks. Serve up. Get it? Because it’s tennis.
The vending machine also appears in Baseball Riot, another game from the same developer.
Home Run High, like every other Kairosoft game ever released, has a soda machine.
Take a break from fighting the villainous forces of LEGION and enjoy a refreshing soda in Agents of Mayhem!
It’s a row of soda and beverage vending machines from Space Trucker, a sci-fi shooter set in a world where the Cold War never ended.
Thanks, Dan!
The terrorists in Counter-Strike are the worst. Always tipping over soda machines and making a mess…
Nothing satisfies like a Big O Cola from State of Decay!
My investigation is complete in Clue Jr.: SpyGlass Mysteries, and I’d like to make an accusation. It was the apron-wearing scientist guy in the laboratory with the soda machine! Thanks for sending this one in, Natalie!
It’s a Lush Beverages vending machine from Half-Life: Condition Zero! Here’s another cola machine from the game:
Also, today marks the one-year anniversary of the Video Game Soda Machine. We’ve collected 1,269 soda machines in the past twelve months, which works out to an average of nearly 3.5 soda machines per day. Thanks to everyone who has contributed soda machines along the way!