My Most Immortal Ad: Stéphane Xiberras on Sony PlayStation's Double Life

There is the sacred, twilight music of Gabriel Fauré's requiem. In the soundtrack, voices recounting a disturbing form of schizophrenia. In the images, alternating colour and black and white, everyday people enclosed in a small, banal frame, but with the gravity and transcendence on their faces of those who have experienced things beyond imagination (a bit like the Tears in the Rain monologue at the end of Blade Runner). This film, these faces, this child who says 'I've conquered worlds' will stay with me for the rest of my life. It's the very essence of the video game in 60 seconds, far, far away from the entertainment and 3D images that the video game industry has been serving up ever since.  Oh, and if you ever watch this masterpiece again, try watching it as if you only discovered at the end that it was PlayStation…