Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
It’s a little known fact, but SWAT actually stands for Soda/Water Acquisition Tactics. In this case, I’ve tactically acquired screenshots of some soda and water vending machines in SWAT 4’s expansion, The Stetchkov Syndicate.
Sure, you’re a father frantically searching for his missing daughter in The Falling Nights…but who can resist a refreshing MagNaut Cola?
Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition brings an adorably cute version of the game to mobile phones — including the vending machines! You can compare these to the original in the archive.
Strive to survive as kaiju, giant robots, and superheroes battle it out over your bustling metropolis in City Shrouded in Shadow for the PS4. Soda machines like this one serve as save points throughout the game.
Requisition a little refreshment in Army of Two with these Freshrila, Riva Fresh, and Tangerina Burst drink machines!
As far as I can tell, the only place this soda machine appears in grindhouse shooter WET is during a cutscene at the end of the first level. Even then, the player only catches a brief glimpse of it.
Transform this nightmarish tenement into a palatial apartment community with the addition of a soda machine in Dream House Days!
A pin-up magazine is teetering on the brink of disaster in Foto Flash, and your photos are the only thing that can save it! Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing a centerfold featuring that Sober Up! vending machine.
You’ve been wrongly accused of murder in the dystopian cyberpunk alternate history post-Cold War Soviet Union in DreamBreak. You could probably use a caffeinated pick-me-up right about now.
Don’t get suckered into buying the $12 refillable souvenir cup in Wild Life Park; the soda machine is a way better deal.