Media Index

This is your guide to the most beloved movies, games, books, music, and TV shows that James Halliday loved and put into the OASIS. Everything here helped shape the world you know today.

Movies

• WarGames (1983)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Shining (1980)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Iron Giant (1999)
• Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
• Ladyhawke (1985)
• Heathers (1988)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Mad Max (1979)
• Firestarter (1984)
• Excalibur (1981)
• Krull (1983)
• Silent Running (1972)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
• Cocktail (1988)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

TV Shows

• Family Ties (1982–1989)
• Sesame Street (1969–)
• Cosmos (1980)
• Mork & Mindy (1978–1982)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
• Doctor Who (1963–)

Video Games

• Joust
• Pac-Man
• Donkey Kong
• Tempest
• Adventure (Atari 2600)
• Black Tiger
• Dungeons of Daggorath
The captain conceals the Jade Key
in a dwelling long neglected
But you can only blow the whistle
once the trophies are all collected.

• Zork (text adventure)
  Continue your quest by taking the test
• Space Invaders
• Defender
• Qbert*
• Galaga
• Robotron: 2084
• Centipede

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Batman
• Harley Quinn
• Joker
• Deathstroke
• Blue Beetle
• Hellboy
• Big Daddy
• Manbat
• Proxima Midnight
• Power Rangers
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Grommash Hellscream

Toys

• Garbage Pail Kids
• Madballs
• He-Man
• Chucky
• Kermit the Frog

Books

• The Lord of the Rings
• Riverworld
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Directors

• David Fincher
• James Cameron
• Quentin Tarantino
• Guillermo del Toro
• Kevin Smith

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