Welt am Draht

You've created a new simulated world, inside computer chips reality unfolds, or at least to those downloaded, executed, machine coded, but you can navigate within binary folds. A sudden loss, leaves you in charge of the machine, things start to happen that could never have been seen, people come and people go, upload, download, no one knows, it's all gone crazy as you byte into what's been.

Poor Fred Stiller starts to lose his marbles as reality confuses and he starts to question who or what he is. Fantastic performances, great story, only let down by the fact that over fifty years later simulation still has some thousands of years to go before it could be achievable - but it will be and Nick Bostrom's Simulation Hypotheses may well explain why.