Consolevania

Consolevania
Starring	Robert Florence Ryan MacLeod Kenny Swanston Joanne Daly
Country of origin	Scotland
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	23 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	Approx. 30 - 60 minutes
Release
Original release	2004 – 2009
External links
Website

Consolevania is a video games TV show filmed in and around Glasgow, Scotland. It is notable as one of very few online TV shows to make the leap onto broadcast TV as the show videoGaiden, which has had three series shown on BBC Scotland.

The name Consolevania is a reference to Konami's long-running horror-adventure game series Castlevania and was chosen by Rllmuk forum members before the first episode was shot. Fittingly, the first game reviewed on the show was Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

The first episode was filmed in the summer of 2004 and initially distributed on CDs posted out by the team. Eventually all episodes became distributed online via the peer-to-peer network, although an archive of http first and second series downloads now exists and lower quality http downloads are released concurrently with the more recent BitTorrent releases.

On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced via Patreon that a new series of consolevania was planned for production. consolevania 4.1 was released on February 18th, 2017.

Consolevania was first released online in 2004, presented by Robert Florence, former writer for BBC comedy Chewin' the Fat, and Ryan Macleod. Primary coverage was of console games, however since the donation of a PC by sponsor Alienware at the start of Series Two, PC games have also been reviewed. Much of the audience for the early episodes came from various online discussion forums, in particular Rllmuk (itself seen by many as the spiritual home of Consolevania) and NTSC-UK.

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