Alberto Garzón: the 'gamer' consumer minister of Spain without consumption

• Ministry.The Malaga court of Alberto Garzón in Consumption

That a minister confesses himself "gamer", as did the head of the consumer portfolio, Alberto Garzón, during his interview on the morning of Spanish Television, may seem strange a priori.

However, the 35-year-old politician is part of the first generation of Spaniards who grew up with

.

A form of entertainment that, when the minister was given his first machine in 1990

began to settle in Spain at the hands of Japanese companies and visionaries such as Paco Pastor, the lead singer of the Formula V group.

Today, 30 years later, while Garzón tries to

random

within video games in exchange for real money to prevent gambling among young people, these have become the

.

A sector that bills more than twice as much as music and cinema combined in our country.

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It is a hobby that the minister knows well.

In fact, according to local sources tell LOC, Garzón even learned to program and make

in the world of video games during his high school years.

A hobby that almost led him to study computer engineering, although he finally opted for economics.

However, although he did not end up being a professional in the gaming world, video games continued to be very present in his life, even in his leap to the first level of political activity.

After acquiring some fame during the 15M movement, Alberto Garzón became the

.

It was a small title, prepared for propaganda purposes by his fellow Izquierda Unida militancy in Malaga, in which Garzón had to run to win 350 seats.

A minigame in which he had as antagonists the financial markets (represented by Emilio Botín), Mariano Rajoy and the socialist Alfredo Pérez-Rubalcaba.

The arrival in the Congress of Deputies did not dissipate Garzón's interest as a politician and economist in the video game sector, although without going as far as the former Greek finance minister,

who left his job at the University to work at Valve , one of the main platforms for the sale of games through the Internet.

Garzón is a regular at fairs and other cultural events that are organized in our country.

Last year, he

-a date not absent of political salseo in which the deputy of Vox, Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros, photographed himself with a jacket from the CD Projekt studio, responsible for great titles such as The Witcher or Cyberpunk- to chat with scholars, indie developers and in which he had to eat a kilometer-long queue to enjoy the demo of the remake of

It is a title in which its protagonist, Cloud (the minister's favorite character), is

who joins a subversive group to fight against a large corporation that is depleting the natural resources of a post-industrial world in which they live together. magic and science fiction.

Final Fantasy are big words in the world of video games.

The seventh (and most successful) edition of a saga that accumulates more than 20 titles.

It is

that consisted of 4 CD-Rom and for which it was necessary to buy a guide (with more pages than a textbook) if fans wanted to discover all the secrets and characters.

Fans that more than two decades after its release form a

for whom concerts of its soundtrack (which has a classic style and epic overtones) are even held, such as Distant Worlds.

An appointment to which Garzón went accompanied by his brother and his wife.

However, in his role as a player, the minister has enjoyed, and discussed with his Twitter followers, practically all the great titles that have gone on sale during the last 20 years.

He fondly remembers Gran Turismo I (car racing),

(a successful shooting game franchise with which Frank Underwood, the protagonist of the fictional series House of Cards, blows off his steam after spending the day in the United States Congress and for which the writer Arturo Pérez Reverte feels special devotion) and the mythical Civilization of strategy.

It's more of a console than a computer

Within the world of videogames, there is a gap between those who prefer to play with a console, and those who choose the computer.

Garzón confesses himself to be one of the first except for a few exceptions such as Counter Strike, a multiplayer shooting title that faces terrorists and counter-terrorists and to which

in Spain in the mid-2000s

can be attributed

.

In addition, Alberto Garzón is also fond of soccer games, such as the

r.

A saga that his adversary in Congress, the popular

,

also dominates with ease

, thanks to nights and nights of practice and during his time as a university student at the Alberto Colao residence in Cartagena.

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