Consolevania – funniest ever videogaming TV?
BBC re-commissions genuinely hilarious show
Great news for UK gamers who like to moan that there is nothing on the telly that properly tells them anything they want to know about their hobby - "videoGaiden," the BBC Scotland videogames review show, has been recommissioned by the BBC after a pretty successful run in late 2005. The second series is to be broadcast later in 2006.
"videoGaiden" is a videogames review show created by the team behind the online gaming show Consolevania. If you haven’t yet seen the latest Consolevania, or indeed any of them, then we urge you to drop everything you are currently doing and go and download it straight away from here and watch it immediately.
Consolevania is a freely distributed, non-profit show and has been running for two years. It’s basically a load of mental Glaswegian jakies let loose with a camera crew to review and talk about videogames like, well, like normal, funny, intelligent everyday people. Imagine Irvine Welsh (ok he's from Embra we know) reviewing Shadow of the Colossus and you have the idea.
And whilst they muck about and clearly have a lot of fun making the show (think Adam and Joe or the best bits of Wayne’s World, but about games), they are clearly pretty skilled at camera-operating, editing and all of that stuff. So they are not ‘merely’ some daft wee jakies with a video camera and a penchant for games. They are daft wee jakies who also happen to be very good telly-makers and have a penchant for games.
“It’s like Goldie Looking Chain made a telly programme but loads funnier,” said one SPOnG staffer after seeing the show earlier on today.
In an exclusive and rare interview, Commander Zorg, CEO of previously funniest thing in the world about videogames, UK:Resistance said: "I'm not watching it out of spite"
Of course, the UK has that old stalwart Gamer.TV which broadcasts regularly on the Bravo channel (a channel purely designed to meet the requirements of lonely masturbators), and the US has, amongst others X-play on G4TV. G4 TV is not to be mistaken with the made-up pop band non-phenomenon which is G4 (ask your granny!).
But something about these shows just doesn’t inspire SPOnG to turn on the telly and tune in. In essence they are boringly conservative and quite tedious to watch if you are older than 14, which unfortunately we all are.
Consolevania has given us a small glimmer of hope that it needn’t be like this. Someday, sometime soon we hope, there may be a side-splittingly funny show about games which we wouldn’t be embarrassed to admit to watching.
"videoGaiden" is a videogames review show created by the team behind the online gaming show Consolevania. If you haven’t yet seen the latest Consolevania, or indeed any of them, then we urge you to drop everything you are currently doing and go and download it straight away from here and watch it immediately.
Consolevania is a freely distributed, non-profit show and has been running for two years. It’s basically a load of mental Glaswegian jakies let loose with a camera crew to review and talk about videogames like, well, like normal, funny, intelligent everyday people. Imagine Irvine Welsh (ok he's from Embra we know) reviewing Shadow of the Colossus and you have the idea.
And whilst they muck about and clearly have a lot of fun making the show (think Adam and Joe or the best bits of Wayne’s World, but about games), they are clearly pretty skilled at camera-operating, editing and all of that stuff. So they are not ‘merely’ some daft wee jakies with a video camera and a penchant for games. They are daft wee jakies who also happen to be very good telly-makers and have a penchant for games.
“It’s like Goldie Looking Chain made a telly programme but loads funnier,” said one SPOnG staffer after seeing the show earlier on today.
In an exclusive and rare interview, Commander Zorg, CEO of previously funniest thing in the world about videogames, UK:Resistance said: "I'm not watching it out of spite"
Of course, the UK has that old stalwart Gamer.TV which broadcasts regularly on the Bravo channel (a channel purely designed to meet the requirements of lonely masturbators), and the US has, amongst others X-play on G4TV. G4 TV is not to be mistaken with the made-up pop band non-phenomenon which is G4 (ask your granny!).
But something about these shows just doesn’t inspire SPOnG to turn on the telly and tune in. In essence they are boringly conservative and quite tedious to watch if you are older than 14, which unfortunately we all are.
Consolevania has given us a small glimmer of hope that it needn’t be like this. Someday, sometime soon we hope, there may be a side-splittingly funny show about games which we wouldn’t be embarrassed to admit to watching.
Comments
Jay 16 Mar 2006 13:38
1/3
Pretty good, but it's just not Vidz!
Hypnotoad 16 Mar 2006 23:38
2/3
I think your little plug there blew their bandwidth to bits like the embassy in GRAW. I'm looking forward to checking it out once peace has been restored.
Joji 17 Mar 2006 00:03
3/3
Oh god, I really miss Vidz, a very funny late video review show in an Adam and Joe flavour. What ever happened to Vidz anyways?
I heard about Consolevania before and I will check it out. Whether a BBC backed cut down version would be better is something I doubt. I hope they'll prove me wrong.
BBC game related shows are all on at kiddy hours are very patronising and cheesy crap. BBC could have easily had their own Gamesmaster by now but they clearly haven't got what it takes in this area, but somehow can still manage it for stuff like Top Gear or Masterchef, go figure.
I'd gladly lift a glass of water to the consolevania guys if they can pull it off, in the meantime cheesy Cybernet and that other games show on Rapture TV await.
I heard about Consolevania before and I will check it out. Whether a BBC backed cut down version would be better is something I doubt. I hope they'll prove me wrong.
BBC game related shows are all on at kiddy hours are very patronising and cheesy crap. BBC could have easily had their own Gamesmaster by now but they clearly haven't got what it takes in this area, but somehow can still manage it for stuff like Top Gear or Masterchef, go figure.
I'd gladly lift a glass of water to the consolevania guys if they can pull it off, in the meantime cheesy Cybernet and that other games show on Rapture TV await.