Let’s pretend that you’ve managed to end up on the committee that’s in charge of selecting the movies and computer games to go in state of the art Nuclear Warfare Survival Bunkers. Another committee is organise books and TV shows, and a third is working on music and miscellanea.
The stated goal behind the bunkers is pretty much the same as in the Fallout universe: support a large population of people for an extended period of time (well over a century, more likely two.)
Unlike the Vaults from the Fallout games, the bunkers in this scenario are all designed to work “properly” (ie, no messed up experiments, social engineering, or nefarious purposes involved). Further, we can assume the day to day real-life issues of such an undertaking (like making sure the water chip doesn’t break down, that there’s enough food, supplies, spare parts etc) have been taken care of (A Wizard Did It, you see), leaving you free to focus on selecting movies and computer games for the bunker’s inhabitants.
Some things to think about: Firstly, each member of the committee gets to make five suggestions in each category (five movies, five computer games).
Secondly, the bunker’s databanks already have nearly all the movies widely regarded to be popular classics- so things like the Star Wars movies, Citizen Kane, the Godfather films, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Dollars trilogy, The Indiana Jones films, and so on. Similarly, all the classic 8-bit/pre-2000s arcade games (Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Super Street Fighter II Turbo Edition, etc are there too.
Thirdly: Bear in mind that the stuff you select has to not only entertain several generations of bunker residents, in 100-200 years it’s likely going to be amongst the very few surviving examples of contemporary entertainment and will doubtless provide all sorts of invaluable information to people trying to rebuild the world once the radiation’s died back and the crops are growing again etc.
Rather than having all the fun by making my own suggestions first, I’m going to open it up to everyone else for a bit to see what people come up with (and offer clarifications in the event of qualificational uncertainties)…
Go for it!