There were 2,021 soda machines in the collection as of March 10, 2018.

March 10, 2018 7:28 PM

The Video Game Soda Machine Project by Jess Morrissette “The Video Game Soda Machine Project is my attempt to catalog screenshots of every soda vending machine that has ever appeared in a video game.”
posted by Fizz (16 comments total)

I wanted orange. It gave me lemon lime.
posted by rodlymight at 7:40 PM on March 10, 2018 [3 favorites]

This is super cute, but the existence of the tablet game: "I Can Do It – Vending Machine" makes me surprisingly angry.

From the game’s own description: “Put in the money… press the button… ta-da! I bought my own drink! No matter how many you buy, your mom and dad won’t get mad. Buy as many drinks as you want in this simulation.”
posted by 256 at 7:48 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Considering they could have loaded the machine with branded drinks -- or gone whole-hog evil and hooked it up to an in-app purchase system -- it seems harmless enough to me. Better than those creepy "give Elsa a botox injection" sims.
posted by Rhaomi at 8:22 PM on March 10, 2018 [2 favorites]

Vending machines are incredibly useful in Deus Ex: Human Revolution for everything except, you know, vending. They're sturdy, hero-sized mobile cover, you can hurl them at walls and doors to break them down, and you can even use them to kill enemies who are really just asking for it.
posted by J.K. Seazer at 8:54 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

I love smashing vending machines in video games. There's something so delightful about it. Speaks to the inner vandal in me.
posted by Fizz at 9:36 PM on March 10, 2018 [2 favorites]

If I wanted to look at computer-generated pop machines I'd watch Double Team.
posted by ckape at 9:53 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

I was all ready to be excited about this, and then I clicked the link and started looking and scrolling through the giant alphabetical list of games that had vending machines in them on the right, and of the first 200, I had only played 2 of them and one of them wasn't that good, and ... I am no longer ready to be excited about this.

Even though I do love any machine that can dispense Grog Classic.
posted by aubilenon at 10:54 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Does the “Snaps” machine in Californium dispense Icelandic liquorice-flavoured vodka?
posted by acb at 5:49 AM on March 11, 2018 [1 favorite]

It makes me a little sad that it took Bethesda until their Nuka-World DLC for Fallout 4 to actually utilize the video screen at the top of the Nuka-Cola vending machines.
posted by radwolf76 at 5:51 AM on March 11, 2018 [1 favorite]

Search: "Shenmue"

I haven’t actually played Shenmue, but by God, it’s got a soda machine!

This guy needs to play Shenmue.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 6:34 AM on March 11, 2018

Eponysomethingorother.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:16 AM on March 11, 2018 [1 favorite]

Can I get a ruling on whether Dr. Breen’s Private Reserve from Half-Life 2 is a soda or a bottled water product?

This has bothered me for quite a while, TBH.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:25 PM on March 11, 2018

I think its meant to be canned water. As featured in the "pick up that can" sidequest.
posted by rodlymight at 1:32 PM on March 11, 2018

Does the “Snaps” machine in Californium dispense Icelandic liquorice-flavoured vodka?

I think you've slightly misunderstood the word snaps?
posted by Dysk at 4:07 AM on March 12, 2018

Indeed.
posted by ckape at 2:03 AM on March 14, 2018

I love this project. I half assedly started my own a few years ago of paintings in videogames, but it's only a couple dozen screenshots of paintings so far. This makes me want to pick it back up again!
posted by GoblinHoney at 7:22 AM on March 14, 2018