Editing Consolevania (section)

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{{Infobox television
| image         = Consolevania.jpg
| caption       =
| runtime       = Approx. 30 - 60 minutes
| creator       = 
| starring      = [[Robert Florence]] <br />Ryan Macleod <br />Gerry McLaughlin <br />Kenny Swanston
| country       = Scotland
| first_aired   = {{Start date|2004|03|10|df=y}}
| last_aired    = {{End date|2009|01|16|df=y}}
| first_aired2  = {{Start date|2017|02|18|df=y}}
| last_aired2   = present
| num_series    = 9
| num_episodes  = 105
| list_episodes = List of Consolevania episodes
| related       = ''[[videoGaiden]]'' 
}}

'''''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 fiction|horror]]-adventure game series ''[[Castlevania]]'' and was chosen by [[RLLMUK]] forum members<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3sMcmm4cI/ Episode 1 Commentary]</ref> before the first episode was shot.  Fittingly, the first game reviewed on the show was ''[[Castlevania: Lament of Innocence]]''.

The [[List of Consolevania episodes#Series 1 (2004–05)|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 (protocol)|BitTorrent]] [[peer-to-peer]] network, although an archive of [[http]] first and second series downloads now exists<ref>[http://mirror.pixelated-ape.org/consolevania/ Index of /consolevania<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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.