"Video games suffer from a young, with its share of clichés and prejudices, and the film in its infancy," says Jerome Neutrals, a chief adviser of the Grand Palais. "We thought it was important to note [Games] in the aesthetic and cultural history, showing the influences that fed itself and its subsequent impact." The most obvious link is that the film, the elder brother to share many attributes of video games. Mario, a plumber of the first heroes of the world of Nintendo tiny pixel, spends his time running from one level to another in search of his princess, and Buster Keaton in Seven Chances is published in 1925. In his film, the last disc, the director Nicolas Winding Refn borrows openly Gran Turismo and Grand Theft Auto.

• to playing position in contemporary art and culture of the Grand Palace and MO5.com, which has done wonders for the collection and preservation of digital heritage, select 80 games that are presented by chronological order. Better still, they are executed on the original console or arcade machines, waiting for visitors to take control.