Why invite to play in front of screens? “If the weather had been with us – it’s raining – We would have arranged on the meadow of wooden games. We wanted, and it’s a first, organize a game day and attract young people “they explain in substance.
The image of the day is that of gamers, therefore of concentrated players, evolving of a stick in strange fictional universes. “Here we have gathered consoles dated from 1990 to 2010”, explains Jean-Yves Rousseau, of the Namur non-profitable unit Incubhacker. The computers arranged on the tables are associated with prehistoric operating systems, such as Windows 95, the one to whom we owe the “Start” menu and the taskbar.
City builder
Here we are like in a museum of mythical obsolescence. “Look at this PC Pentium – A microprocessor who had his hour of glory in the history of the dazzling evolution of computer science –He has only 2 gigas of hard disk but we associated him with a very realistic flight simulator game “, continues this playful hacker of computer programs.
Next to it, Julien, 41, builds a city on an iMac G4, an elegant collector’s item. Video games are not limited to shooting bad guys. It also stimulates creativity, initiates management and strategy, such as this Simcity 2000. On screen, the City built by Julien takes pretty colors. “To make it a city, I have to build residential, industry, trade, bring water and electricity, and make citizens pay for prospering it.” Everything is possible in this version of Simcity which goes so far as to reveal underground layers so that the player can have fun placing pipes and metro lines. “I also have to plan enough in my budget to pay the police and the firefighters” (which also weigh very heavy in reality) specifies this gamer who fell on the screen when he was only 5 years old. It didn’t have his brain, nor made addict, far from it. “It allowed me to learn my first English lessons”he says.
Thomas Furnémont, of the siroter, is also at the helm of the day. “We are our DNA, we do in the old game and disconnection, we are in the escape game. I accepted this challenge for a retro co-coarse, and this transmission to the other generation. “ Thomas designates these vintage hood machines with mythical names that speak to quinquas: there is Atari 7800 of 1986, the 1992 Super Nintendo, the Tandy TV of 1977 and the Commodore 64. He found all this on Marketplace and even in Donrie. For the day, he also had to rent equipment.
Virtual football
In the Games, there is obviously Mario, the Nintendo mascot, whose ancestor, Mario Bros, appeared in 1983. Since then, he has multiplied modes Revival. Basic, graphically, but Mario remained a superman of the video game, the eternal pioneer.
At the F@Briek, the children have Kart in Mario, who bursts the white walls. “We coupled short focal, high -tech projectors with old mario genre games. It’s very pixelated but it works”laughs the sipper. Mario neighbor with “fight” and “battle” Rather funny. In the neighboring room, we change people and time. On the last PlayStation, young people from 12 to 25 years old dribble and shoot in the FIFA 2025 tournament. If there is less fever than when the Red Devils try to mark, the game is confusing realism. Everything is there, far beyond the game, the stands that are full of cracking and the lives of the crowd. The machine and its phew graphics card ensure the show, better than professionals. They seem to allow players to benefit behind their controllers from a breathtaking success rate. Goal! And the F@brik, in this wet countryside heart, begins to vibrate in unison with the virtual delirious crowd.
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Gamers, social beings
Does video game are crazy? Does he fall back to teens in their room? Does he cut social ties? No, no and no. The alderman Maxime Somville, former gamer, dramatizes these dark faces of the game on screen. “I am 35 years old. Young people met around the game, virtually, have become real friends. I still rub shoulders with them today, 20 years later.” These are the LAN – Local Area Network – which allow gamers to connect side by side in real life.
A gunshot teenager
First game that transported the alderman: the Counter Strike, which dates back to the early 2000s and which consists, in short, to shoot terrorists of bombs. A type of game taken up under the acronym (FPS), which translates as follows: a shooting game, by firearm, in the first person. The player saw the action directly through the main character’s eyes as a counter-terrorist launched on a mission to defuse these bombs. Before being this sympathetic and sociable alderman, Maxime Somville was therefore a high -flying gun, a gun in fist, engaged against absolute evil.
Fernelmont, the zero
In another premises, Fanny Van Orshoven, municipal employee, has developed a project thanks to regional subsidies labeled “Intelligent territory”. “It is a question of introducing Fernelmont’s past through puzzles, in reality mixed, from antiquity to the Second World War,” she explains.
