Has me thinking about it...it was a good year.
Movies in 1986 - Top Gun, Aliens, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Books - IT by Steven King, Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
Other stuff - Batman The Dark Knight Returns Graphic novel, Addicted to Love music Video by...
part shop, a junk yard a place where nothing works anymore and only good for one thing, raiding.
Stories are full of them, the myth of the Sargasso Sea, where ships are captured by the seaweed and slowly rot away. The Elephant graveyard where elephants go and die. Shipwreck coast, and so...
Think a lot of gamers would not play a "realistic' system or replay it, there seems to be attachment issues to characters. You want quick and easy that favors the characters over the bad guys.