I was doing some brain-storming today during a long car drive, as usual.

A thought occurred to me, well, more like an extreme hypothetical situation. I was thinking about my favorite things; games, movies, music, etc that has influenced my life in some way. Things that I grew up with that are more than likely more important to me than others for a sentimental reason.

The hypothetical situation is this: you have been stranded on an island have been given a choice of certain things to keep you company for the rest of your life. What would those things be?
You have the choice of the following:

1) 2 gaming systems, and 5 games per system. (PC counts as one.)
2) 1 iPod that had your choice of TEN of your favorite artist. ALL songs/albums by each artist would be available
3) 2 entire series (all seasons) of your top 2 favorite shows of all time
4) 5 of your favorite films
5) 5 of your favorite books

I feel as if these choices you are about to make should define you as a person. But, the real question is this; Why? Why would you choose the things you do? What do they mean to you? Why are they important?

Use this default:

1) Gaming System of Choice #1
a.) game for ^ system
b.) game for ^ system
c.) game for ^ system
d.) game for ^ system
e.) game for ^ system

2) Gaming System of Choice #2
a.) game for ^ system
b.) game for ^ system
c.) game for ^ system
d.) game for ^ system
e.) game for ^ system

3) Your iPod artist list: (10 of your favorites)

4) Your entire series of your favorite show

5) Your 5 favorite films

6) Your 5 favorite books

Also, please list why.

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My List:

1) Nintendo 64 -
a.) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The first game that made me say "wow". The first game that made me love games.
b.) The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - The sequel to the above ^
c.) Star Fox 64 - Very fun game to me. I love the missions.
d.) Goldeneye 007 - The best FPS of all time IMO
e.) Super Mario 64 - A classic game

2) Xbox 360
a.) Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 - My favorite fighting game
b.) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - IMO the most amazing RPG of all time
c.) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Need I say more?
d.) Halo: Combat Evolved - Not the "best", but my favorite FPS. Truly an amazing game that holds many many memories with many friends.
e.) Halo: 3 - Just a fun game with again lots of good memories with friends

3) Your iPod artist list: (10 of your favorites)
Dido - This womans beautiful voice is only matched by her beautiful lyrics (which she writes herself)
Tool - Maynard is truly a lyrical genius; Danny Carey is also my favorite drummer
Lil Wayne - I would literally never run out of things to listen to if I had Waynes entire discography. He holds the record for the most songs in recorded history. Over 1500.
Muse - Amazing lyrics. Really good "vibing music".
Mt Eden - The band that introduced me to my favorite genre of music- Dubstep.
Ephixa - My favorite Dubstep artist
Eminem - My favorite rapper. His lyrics are unrivaled in terms of wit and flow
Linkin Park - The soundtrack of my life
ELO - I grew up listening to them in my dads car. we jammed for years and it holds very special sentimental value to me
Michael Jackson - The most amazing musician that ever lived

4) Your entire series of your top 2 favorite shows
Star Trek: TNG - I really just love Star Trek.
The entirety of Dragonball Z - I literally grew up watching Akira Toriyamas masterpiece. Extreme sentimental value for me here

5) Your 5 favorite films
Titanic - Just an amazing film
Avatar - A technologically amazing film
Charade - My fathers favorite film as well as mine
The Book of Eli - Visually stunning
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Gotta love Harry Potter.

6) Your 5 favorite books
I can't don't read.

Whats the point in these electronics if I don't have electricity?

If I do have electricity:

1. PS3 Slim (nice electronic parts including a wireless adapter)

Games: unimportant

2. Xbox 360 S (nice electronic parts including a wireless adapter)

Games: unimportant

3. Artists for iPod: doesn't matter, the first thing I'd do is chuck the thing into the ocean (sorry, I know I shouldn't pollute)

4. Survivorman (useful for obvious reasons ), MacGyver (inspiration)

5. Films: doesn't matter

6. Books: How to build a radio beacon for dummies and 4 similarly themed books

That's right, I'm getting off this island!

I'd explain why more in depth, but I'm too damn lazy.

1) Xbox 360
a.) Halo Reach
b.) Gears of War 2
c.) Halo 3
d.) Borderlands
e.) TES IV: Oblivion

2) PS3
a.) Uncharted 2
b.) LittleBigPlanet
c.) Need for Speed Shift
d.) Infamous
e.) Killzone 2

3) Your iPod artist list:
Mt Eden
Kid Cudi
Phish
Bar 9
Tupac
Weezer
The Strokes
Bassnectar
Rusko
DeadMau5

4) Your entire series of your favorite show
NCIS
Psych

5) Your 5 favorite films
Where the Wild Things Are
The Three Amigos
The Hangover
Inception
Avatar

6) Your 5 favorite books
LOL

1) 360

Games would be TES III, IV, and V (lets hope I get stranded after 11.11.11) and FO 3 and NV I suppose, not a massive gamer but these are nice long ones which I like a lot.

2) Not bothered about the other system.

3) Incubus
Rage Against the Machine
Melody Gardot
The Beatles
Etta James
Howlin' Wolf
Zee Avi
The Strokes
Joni Mitchell
Bob Dylan

4) Boston Legal
Lost

5) The Matrix
Lars and the Real Girl
Moon
Splice
Secretary

6) Lord of the Flies
Oryx and Crake
Year of the Flood
Clockwork Orange
Complete works of Shakespeare (I know it's a cheat, but you can buy it as one book and it would keep me occupied after I read the other ones to death).

1) Gaming System of Choice #1: PC
a.) Morrowind GOTY
b.) Oblivion
c.) Company of Heroes
d.) RollerCoaster Tycoon
e.) Dawn of War

2) Gaming System of Choice #2: PS2
a.) GTA: San Andreas
b.) God of War 2
c.) Soulcalibur 2
d.) Metal Gear Solid 3
e.) Shadow of the Colossus

These games will keep me busy for years. I hope.

3) Your CREATIVE ZEN artist list: (10 of your favorites)
Ben Harper
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Muse
Metallica
The Vitamin String Quartet
Beethoven
Mozart
Bach
Frank Sinatra

The massive discographies of these artists will be a pleasure to the ear and not too small to repeat.

4) Your entire series of your favorite show
Doctor Who

Again, massive. And awesome.

5) Your 5 favorite films
The Blues Brothers
Hot Fuzz
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Shaun of the Dead
Snatch

I can watch all these films again and again without tiring of them

6) Your 5 favorite books
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lord of the Rings
The Complete PG Wodehouse?

This one was tougher, but they're all good books. Can't nail down a single Wodehouse book that is any better or worse than any other. They're all fantastic.

1) PS3
a.) Oblivion
b.) Fallout 3
c.) Grand theft auto 4
d.) Little big planet
e.) Guitar hero 3

2) Sega mega drive 2
a.) Sonic 1
b.) Sonic 2
c.) Sonic 3
d.) Sonic & Knuckles
e.) Streets of rage 2

3) Your iPod artist list: (10 of your favorites)

Metallica
Slayer
Slipknot
Deep Purple
Daft Punk
Iron Maiden
The Clash
The Who
The Stranglers
The Kinks

4) Your entire series of your favorite show

Docter Who

5) Your 5 favorite films

Con Air
Resident Evil
Independence Day
Indina Jones and the temple of doom
Aliens

6) Your 5 favorite books

Any i would just use them to start fires

1) Xbox 360
a.) Fallout 3
b.) GTA IV
c.) Mirror's Edge
d.) Red Dead Redemption
e.) BioShock

2) PS2
a.) Simpsons Hit & Run
b.) GTA: San Andreas
c.) GTA: Vice City
d.) Need for Speed Underground 2
e.) Shadow of the Colossus

3) iPod:
a.) Daft Punk
b.) Deadmau5
c.) Justice

That's all the music I need, the rest can be the Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry

4) TV show:
Top Gear

I can't decide between films

6) Books:
1.) The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
2.) Freakonomics/Superfreakonomics double pack (surely this exists?)
3.) The Hell of it all/Screen Burn/The Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker (again I'm inventing a collection)
4.) The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux

I can't choose between novels, some sort of collection of 20th Century Literature - Wodehouse, Steinbeck, Nabokov etc.

Wait, we get no human company option!? D: I would surely go mental. After about two days of no human contact I start to go a bit loopy. Anyway. On with the answer.

1a. PC, with heavily modded Fallout 3 GOTY, heavily modded Fallout New Vegas, heavily modded Oblivion, Age of Empires- the Asian Dynasties expansion, and...Can I pre-order Skyrim? I'd pick these because I somply have yet to get bored of them. The Fallouts and Oblivion are simply enormous and you can play them forever (yes, exaggerating), and I like playing AOE when I feel like a bit of a change.
1b. PS2, with Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot Warped, Gran Turismo 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and....that's all. Why? Cause they're freaking fantastic.

2. Lamb of God, Slipknot, Green Day, Rammstein, Rise Against, Pendulum, Murderdolls, Metallica, Mindless Self Indulgence and Harvest. The first 9, because I love that stuff, and the last band because they're friends of mine and would remind me of good times and good people.

3. Top Gear, Invader Zim. Zim would keep me sane.

4. 28 Days later, 28 Weeks Later, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Repo: The Genetic Opera and maybe something funny, but I dunno what.

5. 5 things written by Terry Pratchett. Or four things, and one book written by Douglas Adams.

I've never owned an ipod, or really ever had an mp3 player, so I dunno what kinda music I'd want on it, but whatever is currently hip, well what I find currently hip

1) PC
a.) Oblivion
b.) Garry's Mod
c.) Sims 2
d.) Sims 1
e.) Morrowind

2) Wii(for the virtual Console)
a.) Super Mario World
b.) Kirby's Adventure
c.) Sonic the Hedgehog 2
d.) Megaman 2
e.) Super Mario 64

3) Your iPod artist list: I'd use some sort of magic so I could get my Mp3 player, not an iPod,which would have:
1.six Machineguns
2.Malice Mizer
3.Arkona
4.Unheilig
5.Tyr
6.Van Canto
7.Sonata Arctica
8.Iron Maiden
9.NoGod
10.Lordi

4) Your entire series of your favorite show
Dragonball Z and G Gundam, Such awesome.
5) Your 5 favorite films
Toy Story 1,2,3 I guess. I really don't care for movies
6) Your 5 favorite books
5 random books, they burn nicer than anything on the list.

Since we're able to include any console and any game, that assumes we have internet access.

In which case, I bring a PC and send out a distress message over the web, get rescued and have access to all my stuff again.

1) PS3
a.) Red Dead Redemption-Love the atmosphere the most believable game world ever. (In my opinion of course)
b.) TES IV Oblivion-Endless fun
c.) Fallout 3-It just appeals to my nature to have an open ended story
d.) GTA IV- Ya gotta love it
e.)Assassin's Creed Brotherhood-Had to pick one of them, the only complicated game story/lore I have a grasp on

2) PS2
a.) GTA 3-Ground Breaking game in so many ways
b.) GTA San Andreas- It appealled to me in the same ways as TES
c.) Red Dead Revolver- I love Westerns and I love games and when the 2 come together it's beautiful
d.) Jak 2 Renegade-Most people say it's for kids but I don't know what it is but it just appeals in so many ways
e.) PES 6- The best PES game I love football and this in my opinion is the best football game ever.

3) Your iPod artist list:
Green Day
Unkle
Night On Fire
The Killers
Arcade Fire
Prodigy
Pendulum
Eric Prydz
Johnny Cash
The Black Keys

4) Your entire series of your favorite show
Doctor Who-I LOVE Sci-Fi
5) Your 5 favorite films
The Good the Bad and the Ugly-Best Western ever
The Book of Eli-I just enjoy the story
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy-I love Fantasy aswell
Star Wars- Who doesn't ?
Tropic Thunder-Fun Comedy
6) Your 5 favorite books
The Percy Jackson series-Gives Harry Potter a run for his money
The Spooks' series-Great Horror series
Alex Rider Series- Fun
Harry Potter- It's not too bad
The Hobbit- I prefer it to the LOTR trilogy

1) Xbox 360
a.) Fallout: New Vegas
b.) Fallout 3
c.) TES Skyrim
d.) Oblivion (I would want to play it eventually)
e.) Bioshock

2) PC
a.) Morrowind
b.) Rise of Nations
c.) Civilization IV
d.) Civilization V
e.) Daggerfall

3) Your iPod artist list: Glenn Gould, Alexis Weissenberg, Leopold Stokowski, Msitislav Rostropovich, Arturo Michelangeli, Beaux Arts Trio, Antal Dorati, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev and Itzak Perlman

4) The Twilight Zone

5) American Psycho, Platoon, A Clockwork Orange, W., and Gone With The Wind.

6) The Divine Comedy, Gods and Generals, The Brothers Karamazov, the Holy Bible and The Heart of Darkness.

1) Super Nintendo
a.) Secret of Mana: All time favorite game, and if I had all day long to play, I'd go through and once I got to the flying fortress I'd grind until I got every weapon to level 9
b.) Earthbound: Because it's such an awesome game, and is quite large with a lot of stuff to do
c.) Super Mario World: Because it's a long game if you unlock every single secret in it, and it's quite fun
d.) Breath of Fire 2: Another fun game with a lot of stuff to do, and characters that I enjoy(Plus, if I get bored, I can try to beat my all-time high damage output on the Male tiger who wants to Marry Katt and is unkillable. I once dished out 246k damage on him without him dying(Final boss in game only has 10k)
e.) Super Mario Kart: Got to have a non-rpg in the mix, and Super Mario Kart has a ton of replayability by unlocking the higher CC's.

2) Nintendo DS
a.) Rune Factory 2: An Amazing game with a ton of quests, and an extremely intricate crafting system that you have to slowly learn over-time(you're not just given every recipe from the get-go). Great storyline, and just plain old fun
b.) Yu-Gi-Oh Nightmare Troubadour: I love Yu-Gi-Oh, both the anime and the card game, and this particular game has a ton of the early cards, a fun battling system, and a very diverse cast of characters, including Marik in full evil mode and non-evil mode.
c.) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker: Excellent game that is somewhat like a hyped up pokemon: Ability to breed different monsters with two different parents, a large amount of the monsters introduced throughout all of Dragon Quest, and a storyline that doesn't end when you think it does.
d.) The Original Touchmaster: A wide variety of mini-games and/or puzzles that never get old. I play this whenever I need a break from RPGs or more serious games in general. Always a thrill when you manage to beat a high-score that you never thought you would be able ot.
e.) Mario Party: I've always enjoyed the Mario Party games, and the one for the DS is every bit as fun as the console versions. Lots of re-playability due to a large amount of unlockable content(going through the storyline mode with a different character unlocks different things)

3) Your iPod artist list: (10 of your favorites): Godsmack, Disturbed, Three Days Grace, Complete Soundtrack for Escaflowne, Complete Soundtrack for Martian Successor Nadesico, All songs in Les Miserables, Linkin Park, Eminem, Staind, A track of Random Instrumentals

4) House

5) Good Will Hunting, Night of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil, Texas Chainsaw Massacre(remake, not the original)

6) This is a hard one, I tend to like all of my books, not sure if I really have "favorite" books. Yeah, can't really think of any individual books that I like over others. Now, series of books, that would be a different story: Erevis Cale Trilogy(Forgotten Realms), The Survivalist Series(28 books in all), Anita Blake Series, Dark Tower series, Awakened Mage series(4 books in all so far I think)

fridge
diabetic supplies
otherwise I am dead. KInda makes the list irrelevant.

1) Xbox 360
a.) Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
b.) Red Dead Redemption
c.) Battlefield 3 (Do we have access to online?, even though i guess we could just ask every person we meet for help if we do, doubt theyll listen)
d.) Grand Theft Auto 4
e.) Brink

2) PC
a.) The Witcher 2
b.) Fallout New Vegas
c.) Oblivion
d.) Skyrim
e.) The Orange Box (count as one game?)

3) iPod. (Can I just get a 64 gig iPad 2 and fill it with books, movies, games and music?)
Kid Cudi
Mt Eden
Eyes Dubstep
Weezer
Dispatch
Lil Wayne
Wiz Khalifa
Lupe Fiasco
Roksonix Dubstep
UKF Dubstep (massive amount of songs.)

4)
Lost (fitting right?) Top Gear
The 70's Show

5) Uhh...
Pineapple Express
Jarhead (love this movie)
Saving Private Ryan
Back To The Future
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (Gotta get my Eastwood dose in there)

6) I don't read much

But I'ma just boost the limit to 7 and say all the Harry Potter books, just for massive content, story, and rereadability. Might have to exchange that for the Percy Jackson series, I'm a nut for Greek mythology.

In all honesty, I'd trade this all in for survival, medical and hunting supplies.

Where are we getting electricity from anyway? And a TV? And a monitor?

1) PS3
a.) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion- Quite honestly the best game ever in my opinion. Got me into TES.
b.) Fallout 3- One of the only shooter-like games I'll play
c.) Mass Effect 2- Extremely fun, another shooter I'd play
d.) Mortal Kombat- I know its new, but I already love it
e.) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim- Uh, duh

2) PC(With controller)
a.) Morrowind- Much better on the PC IMO.
b.) Civilization V- Absolutely stunning! My favorite RTS so far.
c.) LOTRO- Yeah, I know. But its addicting to me and I love it.
d.) EVE- I didn't play it long, but for the time I could afford it I loved every second.
e.) Dragon Age: Origins-Amazing game and I hear its much better for the PC.

3) Your iPod artist list: (10 of your favorites)
-Disturbed: I grew up listening to them and they got me out of pop and into Rock/Metal, gotta love 'em!
-Asking Alexandria: My second favorite up and coming band, two albums that are just astonishing.
-The Word Alive: I love every song on their first and only album, enough said. Favorite up and coming band.
-It Dies Today: The Caitiff Chior might be the best album ever, seriously.
-Jimi Hendrix: Greatest guitarist ever, wish he was still with us
-Metallica: No, not the new crap. the actually good albums, you know, like the black album.
-System of a Down: Disturbed and System will always have a place in my music library, epic lyrics.
-Tool: Amazing lyrics and a great tone. Need to see them live!
-Dethklok: No explanation needed, simply brutal.
As I lay Dying: All three albums are incredible, not sure if they have any others out but if they svck I don't wanna know!

4) Your entire series of your favorite show
Dragonball Z- Holy crap, best show ever. I have literally watched the entire series at least 12 times, and watched individual episodes on countless occasions. Best. Show. Of. All. Time
Honorable Mentions:
-House
-Law and Order: SVU
-South Park
-Family Guy
-Futurama

5) Your 5 favorite films
-Forest Gump: Good lord I love this movie, Tom Hanks is just stunning as is every aspect of this movie
-The Dark Knight: The best movie based of a superhero ever, might even be a top 5 best of all time.(Duh, its on my list )
-Star Wars: Uh, duh
-The Matrix: ONLY THE FIRST ONE. It was an instant classic.
-Toy Storie Series: Best animated movies ever

6) Your 5 favorite books
Thats a good one...

1) PS3
a.) Battlefield 3
b.) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
c.) Metal Gear Solid: Rising
d.) Brink
e.) Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

2) Xbox-360
a.) Halo Reach
b.) Gears of War 3
c.) Batman: Arkham City
d.) L.A. Noire
e.) Deus Ex: Human Revolution

3) Your iPod artist list: (10 of your favorites)
Bob Marley
Sublime
S.P.M
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Datsik
(I can't think of anymore music I would like to listen to while stranded on an island.)

4) Your entire series of your favorite show
The Office

5) Your 5 favorite films
Brothers
Step Brothers
Pineapple Express
The Town
Friday

6) Your 5 favorite books
Silverwing
Sunwing
Firewing
Darkwing
Narnia Trilogy

Give me the ultimate gaming rig along with Skyrim and Mass Effect 3 and I think I'll be set for life.

Better yet, ultimate gaming rig, a credit card, and a steam connection.