Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
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!
Take a break from the zombie apocalypse in The Last Stand: Union City with a refreshing GV Cola!
Did someone knock over this post-apocalyptic cola machine from Bad Blood, or is the perspective just completely off?
No, you aren’t seeing things. This vending machine from Action Girlz Racing for the PS2 says “Drink Puke.”
Experience a moment of Zen with Perfect Dark Zero. Thanks for the screenshot, Zsiros!
Playing Cold Fear? Treat yourself to a cold drink. Thanks, HitTheSnake!
It’s a row of Vendroid vending machines from Habitat, LucasArts’ groundbreaking 1986 graphical MMORPG. Thanks to Robert for capturing this screenshot in NeoHabitat, an open-source revival of the original game for modern systems!
There’s more to this soda machine from mobile beat-’em-up Rockabilly Beatdown than meets the eye…
Thanks to Rumblecade for sending this my way!
The Fallout table from Bethesda Pinball features a Nuka-Cola machine in the background!
I think it’s obvious what happened in this scene from Emergency 2017. The bicyclist was distracted by that soda machine and slammed into a car.
LawBreakers claims “what worked in other first-person shooters will get you merc’d.” Fortunately, soda machines always work.
This BLAST soda machine appears exclusively in Halo 2’s Tombstone multiplayer map.
Duke encounters a cola vending machine while blasting his way through a grocery store in Duke Nukem Advance for the GBA!
Here’s an earlier design for a Duke Cola machine that was cut from Duke Nukem Advance prior to the game’s release.
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Judging by the size of these vending machines from Pixel Gun 3D, that water cooler is inordinately tall. Or, considering the door frame, perhaps the vending machines are just exceptionally short.
Woody, disguised as a cup of soda, dodges the cans dispensed by this Pizza Planet vending machine in Toy Story for the Genesis! Here’s the same scene from the Game Boy release. The SNES version is already in the archive.
Thanks for the screenshot, Jon!