Retrogaming is the activity of playing old video games. It involves games released on game consoles, microcomputers, arcade machines, or so-called “electronic” games between the 1970s and 2000s.
Yann Delmare, one of the creators who is among the most active members, decided to organize an event around his passion: the RE-PLAY Festival!
The activities are expanding day by day with conferences, screenings, competitions, and entertainment.
Among the various stands:
- Sud Retro Electro with its wide range of consoles
- A stand dedicated to Pockets (calculators, watches, and computers)
- A Retrogaming stand focused on computers
- A stand dedicated to Arduino and electronic tinkering
- A consignment stand for consoles, games, accessories
- A stand dedicated to the game Skweek with the presence of the author (Sunday)
- Exhibition of REPLAY articles
- Interflip, a specialist in the sale of foosball tables, pinball machines, billiards, jukeboxes and spare parts
- Mad in Japan, a specialist in Japanimation
- The Espace Turing which will present their very beautiful museum located nearby
- Atlas Game Shop, a specialist in Retrogaming & new generation consoles
-The museum also hosts the first open lab of the Alpes-Maritimes, Nicelab.
A real space for research and electronic tinkering, it was created in late 2011.
-SATURDAY, JUNE 30
10:00 Doors open
13:45 Conference on the history of video games by Espace Turing
15:00 Entertainment with Eric Sansen “The Strongest Man in the World”
(seen on Incredible Talent on M6) followed by a fight on
Street Fighter II with the public and a signing session of the
novel “The Lord of the Ice”
16:30 Console competition
18:30 Prize ceremony
Throughout the festival, numerous stands of video games, computers, arcade machines, and pinball machines will be accessible to the public for free. A 5-player Bomberman game will take place on a giant screen all day.
Screenings of documentaries, films, and commercials related to Retrogaming will occur outside the conferences
-SUNDAY, JULY 1
10:00 Doors open
11:00 Conference on the history of video games by Frédéric Kenbel
15:00 Presentation of the 2012 version of Skweek on iOS by the
authors followed by a signing session
16:30 Attempt to set the world record on a game
revealed on the same day on the arcade machine.
18:30 Prize ceremony
19:00 Festival closing
