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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这计划发起人是Marshal大学的政治学教授 Jess Morrissette，他的研究方向集中在政治
与游戏的交集。他认为没有资本主义象征的世界对玩家来说是缺乏现实主义的，而他眼中
的贩卖机正是游戏与现实世界的连接，所以才做了这个计划，那就是：
收集游戏中出现的贩卖机
http://vgsmproject.com/
目前已经收集到了3,000台。他对这个达到的里程碑的看法是这是一种“无可否认的荒谬”
(admittedly ridiculous)。
如果你也想提交贩卖机截图给这计划，可以经由他的Twitter。
虽然讲的很高大上，我也译得很迷惑，但总之你可以在这网站看到各游戏中的贩卖机截图
。