This might interest game designers here:
Heh heh, nice list. It would be nice to see the same thing for movies.
The list kind of reminds me of the book “Ready Player One” which weaved a lot of different video games/80s culture elements all into one story…
There are some “TV Tropes” sites that list ideas for other kinds of plots. Here is one of them. (I linked to one that didn’t pop up a message about 3 free articles per month.)
Interesting! I love meta stuff like this, thanks for sharing. 
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