Video Game Soda Machine Project Reaches 3,000 Soda Machines Catalogued
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The Video Game Soda Machine Project has reached its 3,000th soda machine. The
latest screenshot entry features a soda machine from the NES game Lethal
Weapon.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Video Game Soda Machine Project, allow us to
elaborate. The site collects screenshots of soda machines in video games. The
collection now spans over 3,000 individual soda machine screenshots from
different games. The span is pretty remarkable, with every major platform and
genre in gaming represented.
The project’s proprietor Jess Morrissette is a professor of political
science at Marshall University. Dr. Morrissette’s research currently focuses
on the intersection between politics and video games. He says he’s argued
that suspension of disbelief is easy when it comes to monsters and fictional
figures, but that a world without “symbols of capitalism” lacks realism to
players. Vending machines and soda machines represent solid, realistic links
to the real world in Dr. Morrissette’s eyes. He describes the Video Game
Soda Machine Project’s 3,000-screenshot milestone as “admittedly ridiculous
”.
Dr. Morrissette originally started the Video Game Soda Machine Project two
and a half years ago. In the About section on the project’s official
website, he says the idea to catalog soda machines in gaming “seemed like a
good idea at the time”. The project features over 1,300 games, an archive of
which can be viewed here. You can also search for a particular game on the
official website, or browse a list of all the games Dr. Morrissette has
diligently combed in alphabetical order. If you like your video game
ephemera, you may also be interested in the Video Game Manholes collection,
or perhaps this exhaustive catalog of Video Game Hot Dogs. Don’t ever say we
don’t do anything nice for you.
If you want to submit a soda machine screenshot to Dr. Morrissette, you can
do so via Twitter.
Does this inspire you to start your own weird video game object catalog? Let
us know in the comments below!
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這計劃發起人是Marshal大學的政治學教授 Jess Morrissette，他的研究方向集中在政治
與遊戲的交集。他認為沒有資本主義象徵的世界對玩家來說是缺乏現實主義的，而他眼中
的販賣機正是遊戲與現實世界的連接，所以才做了這個計劃，那就是：
收集遊戲中出現的販賣機
http://vgsmproject.com/
目前已經收集到了3,000台。他對這個達到的里程碑的看法是這是一種「無可否認的荒謬」
(admittedly ridiculous)。
如果你也想提交販賣機截圖給這計劃，可以經由他的Twitter。
雖然講的很高大上，我也譯得很迷惑，但總之你可以在這網站看到各遊戲中的販賣機截圖
。