| Consolevania | |
|---|---|
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| Starring | Robert Florence Ryan Macleod Gerry McLaughlin Kenny Swanston |
| Country of origin | Scotland |
| No. of series | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 105 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | Approx. 30 - 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | 10 March 2004 – 16 January 2009 |
| Release | 18 February 2017 – present |
| Related | |
| videoGaiden | |
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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 four 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[1] 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 early 2004 and initially distributed on CDs posted out by the team. Eventually all episodes became distributed online via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network, although an archive of http first and second series downloads now exists[2] and lower quality http downloads are released concurrently with the more recent BitTorrent releases.
On 23 January 2017, it was announced via Patreon that a new series of Consolevania was planned for production. The first episode of the new run was released on 18 February 2017, and the show is following a regular monthly release schedule.