The Video Game Soda Machine Project

Take that, generic cola vending machine!

Fallout: London is an ambitious semi-official total conversion of Fallout 4 that takes Bethesda’s post-nuclear apocalypse across the pond.

One More Shake challenges players to flip soda machines upside down, shake out cans, and somehow earn money in the process.

There’s a lone bottle of soda left inside this vending machine from Silver Pines.

Cloud Strife stops to admire this vending machine from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

As far as I can tell, this lone soda machine in the middle of nowhere is the only one in Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden, a 1989 RPG that brings together several manga heroes from the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Alfred encounters this Summer Love soda machine at Karl’s Pump & Mart in Forever Ago, a narrative adventure about a widower setting out on a road trip through memories of the life he shared with his late wife.

Count out your loose change, kids, and let’s buy a can of So Duh from this vending machine in Math Missions: The Race to Spectacle City Arcade, a 2003 edutainment title.

Loki and Odin square up in front of a pair of BREAK TIME drink machines in Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi: Gekitō!

The Conveni: Ano Machi wo Dokusen Seyo is a quirky Japanese convenience store simulator for the PlayStation, and it offers a variety of drink vending machines serving both hot and cold beverages.

One of the first puzzles in The Amazing World of Gumball: Darwin Rescue, a 2022 point-and-click browser adventure based on the Cartoon Network series, has players retrieve a drink from this vending machine for Penny, the shapeshifting fairy.

Gumball encounters this vending machine in the middle of a cemetery while on a turn-based quest to recover his family’s stolen stuff in The Amazing World of Gumball: Fellowship of the Things!

Sully had to infiltrate Fear Tech’s campus armed with a toilet paper launcher in Disney Infinity 1.0’s Monsters University playset to find this vending machine.

Disney Dreamlight Valley’s “Eye on the Prize” quest has players gather red and blue sodas from these vending machines in the Monsters, Inc.

Whoa, check it out, Beavis!

Beavis picks his nose in front of a soda pop machine in a November 1998 prototype of Beavis and Butt-Head Do Hollywood, an unreleased game for the PlayStation 1!

Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension – 2D Yourself is a 2011 Flash game that lets you create a cartoon avatar and wander around Danville completing missions.

Mobile city-builder The Simpsons: Tapped Out features this Scammer & Z-Dog vending machine, originally seen in the Season 16 episode “The Heartbroke Kid.”

Little Kitty, Big City is an adorable game about a lost cat exploring the neighborhood, causing trouble, making friends, and investigating every soda machine along the way.

Gears of War: E-Day is set 15 years before the original game, and I guess there were a lot of soda machines around when the Locust Horde arrived.

Dash through corridors, dispatching enemies and chugging cans of Boomer Soda, in Mullet MadJack!

Halo Infinite and Mountain Dew reunited in 2023 to launch the Critical Dewpoint map, celebrating the return of Halo 3’s Game Fuel Citrus Cherry.

The Wreck is a 3D visual novel about memory, family, and a very difficult day in the life of failed screenwriter Junon.

This Alpha Cola vending machine provides a welcome glow in The Night Is Grey, a 2024 point-and-click adventure from Whalestork Interactive.

Captain’s Log, Stardate 86088.6: After completing the Starfleet tutorial and taking command of the U.S.S.

Drinking virtual soda from a virtual soda machine to quench my virtual thirst while playing virtual putt-putt in the Passport Tokyo DLC for Walkabout Mini Golf VR!

These Limu soda machines, previously seen in Alan Wake 2, return to light up the night in Control Resonant.

Misako and Kyoko are busting out genius combos in front of a soda machine in River City Girls 2!

Trying to collect S-K-A-T-E in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4?

Duke Nukem has never been known for subtlety, and these Duke’s Kick Ass Cola vending machines from the PlayStation 1 game Land of the Babes are no exception.

Crystal Cave features a soda machine that may be an even older entry than 1978’s Journey to the Center of the Earth!

Good news, Master Chief!

Any gearhead will tell you that repair work is thirsty work.

Guten Tag, meine Lieben!

Our old friend the Fiz vending machine returns in Firefighting Simulator: The Squad, and the good news is that it’s not on fire (yet)!

If you want to add a vending machine to your grocery store in Supermarket Simulator, you’ll need to shell out $4.99 for the vending machine DLC.

An ice-cold Tropi-Cola or a refreshing Knipp sounds like a great way to beat the heat while walkin’ the beat in Police Simulator: Patrol Officers, but if the Police Quest games taught me anything, it’s that taking even a brief detour from proper police pr…

Pigeon Simulator lets you live out the fantasy of being a pigeon who’s also a secret agent battling paranormal threats.

The soda machine from PowerWash Simulator 2 is covered in dirt and grime.

This Limu soda machine pops up in Alan Wake 2!

Welcome to Bone Town, Willy Morgan!

In Stray, even buying a drink becomes a puzzle when you’re several paws short of reaching the vending machine’s coin slot.

Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City is a corporatized dystopia that’s chock-full of vending machines, and where better to start than with Brendan, an AI who was uploaded into one of the city’s Spontaneous Craving Satisfaction Machines (SCSMs)?

There’s nothing quite like the wobbly polygons of a PlayStation 1 soda machine!

Looks like the Special Cola vending machines got a fresh coat of paint in The Last of Us Part II Remastered!

My Sim has it all: a beautiful single-story home in Mt.

When Fortnite brought Springfield Island to the game as part of its 2025 Simpsons crossover, of course they had to include these Buzz Cola machines!

Persona 4 Revival doesn’t come out for a few more months, but there are already soda machines popping up in the pre-release screenshots!

Inside Out‘s Disgust seems less than impressed by the Pitt Cola machine that pops up as part of the Gravity Falls Mystery Shack building set.

When your thirst containment fails in Abiotic Factor, reach for a refreshing Rootbear!