It’s not because we’re in the countryside that we can’t offer quality, something around pop culture that we don’t see anywhere else.”
In one sentence, Cyril Bertat, co-president of the Rétroplay 44 association, summarizes the unique event organized on October 19 and 20 in Gâvre, 40 km north of Nantes.
With this festival, the association finances actions in hospitals
The Retroplay festival is a real dive into worlds that appeal to all ages: For an entry of €12 per day, you can play at 170 pinball machines and 90 arcade machines. The world of cosplay will also be represented
specifies the co-president. New for this event, organized every two years: old gaming games will also be offered, as well as current consoles.
To create this unique retrogaming event, born in 2017 at the initiative of a group of happy geeks, the team of volunteers can count on passionate collectors who make their pinball machines or arcade machines available.
The program promises to be grandiose: the public will also be able to discover one of the first Atari consoles or an ingenious inclusive pinball machine presented for the first time during the festival.
A solidarity event
These good times of games are organized with a specific goal: to raise enough money to organize actions in hospitals, specialized establishments, etc. This festival helps finance our Retrosmile operations. We organized 40
actions since 2018. Machines can be made available free of charge in establishments. We travel otherwise to offer games and cosplayers disguised as famous characters can accompany us
», According to Cyril Bertat. An opportunity, for example, to get a change of scenery for hospitalized children.
To help the association, all you have to do is come and have fun this weekend at the Gâvre sports complex, near Blain. Admission: €12 per day, €20 per weekend. Ticketing possible online at www.retroplay.fr or on site
