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. 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 BitTorrent 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.
Returning Series
Consolevania
March 10, 2004
April 3, 2018
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Reviews: Fallout 3 (Rab), Persona 4 (Ryan). Gaming: Independents Day 24.10.08 (Depths of Peril, Synthesia, Barnstorming), Independents Day 31.10.08 (Mount and Blade, Intercept, Crow in Hell). Sketches: Pop!, Checkin The Forums, Andy Ben on FIFA 09, Halo 3: be abused, Ziggy Springsteen: welcome to Consolemania. Notes: Wave 2 was inaugurated on 29 November 2008. Only four videos (the intro, Pop!, Andy Ben, and the Fallout 4 review) were uploaded before production ceased in December 2008. A full-length episode was eventually released via YouTube on 3 April 2018, consisting of the four original segments, as well as two segments (Checkin The Forums and the Persona 4 review) which had been completed but not uploaded in 2008.
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