(Pre note, while It will be a VIDEO history with YouTube clips. I will limit the amount embedded, to save everyone's flash memory. Instead they will be linked within the text so feel free to click away! Also I figured I should have made this a blog......after I finished it...oh well!)
With the sudden surge of Rab's name being talked around a lot by people who have been following the Rab Florance, Eurogamer and Lauren Wainwright incident.
A lot of people go "Who the hell is Rab?" well...Rab is very relevant to games in my opinion, you are more than likely to know of his work one way or another and with the recent tweets by Rab he will be back in the air of a video game review show!
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Agtheo It's just got me in the mood to do another games show. So that's a positive thing.
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Tonight I pretty much assembled the team for a successor to Consolevania. That's 2013 sorted.
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New gaming show? No joke. No joke when Kenny's on board. "paul_carmo: robertflorence you shouldn't joke about that kind of thing."
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I have no idea how to properly respond to last week's madness other than to make another videogame show, with all the freedom that provides.
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I should be clear that the videogame show we're planning for 2013 isn't a review show. It's a satirical comedy thing.
Lets start....somewhere. Rab "Robert" Florence (Rab being Scottish for Robert) Is a Glaswegian (Man from the city of Glasgow Scotland) presenter, comedian, actor, TV writer and freelances game writer. He has alot under his belt.
He had been writing for the Scottish sketch comedy show Chewin the Fat for the BBC before 2004, which is a much loved comedy series here in Scotland. So this guy knows comedy and yet he also knows about video games. So with his fellow friend and aspiring actor Ryan Macloed they made their own web,comedy sketch,video game,review show Consolevania.
This was before Youtube and the hundreds of hobby game reviewers such as JontronAngry Joe(there is better examples I know) and the likes, just about the same time as Angry Video Game nerd (Simply going by the Wiki) however I assume the distribution was much the same. You find the website one way or another and you download the file. It was the Dark ages for internet video content. Bandwidth was expensive to just "STREAM" hell downloading was a strain for a lot of peoples ISP.
So It was a case of word of mouth for such true content as this.
Now when the only Video Games shows you were getting on Scottish/British TV was such things as CYBERNET WHICH RAN FOR OVER 10 YEARS! God it was horrible..... and the good shows like Bits and a few others were always under the microscope and constrains of the TV channel.
Such an uncandid commentary is welcomed... with such things as "Fuck off Batman!" its funny and true, as if he is talking to you like a friend, not like a child which CYBERNET does.
And if you want a true experience of CYBERNET Lego Batman review and VS Consolvania's Lego Batman reviewClick them!
One thing that people more then likely know of Rabs work is this.
That spoof of Halo 3 that went viral. Rab and Ryan just planted it on the nets and just left it. It was not tied at all to them until they wanted to tie in for the upcoming Consolevania SEASON 4!
The last review of Consolevania was Fallout 3Which did not even have ANY game footage and I think its great. And then for a one off we got in the midst of EA hate what would happen if a company took over a review show with its big monies only known as "C" with Limmy! playing as Zack an upcoming Scottish Comedian now with his own Comeday Sketch serise (You see a pattern on the only comedy Scotland has it SKETCH! usually)
Now lets actually talk about "C" right there in 2008...is the exact comment Rab was talking about with PR and reviewers being too close. I urge you to watch "C"
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) VideoGaiden! as they didn't want to sell over the name Consolevania.
As you see Rab and Ryan was excited to have Video Games BACK ON THE BBC!.....only on BBC 2 Scotland (Not England or Wales...or Northern Ireland.) and for ten minutes.....IT WAS A START!
English fans of Consolvania were frothing at the mouth and was one of the first TV shows to be upload on the offical site of BBC and be watched online. Something that is everyday for a lot of people and especially with the BBCi player.
People demanded and we got Videogaiden season 2 and it was on for 25 minutes! Hurrah's were had since it was available in England as well...I think..I am not English and it had a third season and it ended....it couldn't last sadly.
After all this I was surprised to load up on the Xbox dashboard one of the new video streaming features and who comes up? RAB! with the Indipendint Charles Show!
It eventually came to American Xbox's and was met with "What the fuck did I just watch!?" that is a very valid response.
As shown Rab has never been an offical games journalist, he has wrote columns for websites however he hasn't sat down and had a desk in one of these places. He his a guy on the ground, if anything he is a TV person. As demonstrated with the brilliant comedy series starring him and Iain Connell Bournistourn
He is a writer for the upcoming (STILL WAITING!!!) IT Crowd Series 5 which a lot of people love Graham Linehams IT Crowd for great reason.
And Today Rab is...........going to be managing a wrestling match....in a church..... with the Tall one from Chewin the fat and Victor from Still Game Greg Hemphill!
So Rab ticking along!
And considering I am certain Rab is going to make this new series online or on TV. It will be magical.
If that is not going to hit the same strides as Consolevania did. Then is even two guys in Glasgow following in the foot steps of Consolevania known as Bitsocket, they are heavily inspired by Rab and Ryan's Consolevania...and also Scottish..in Glasgow....so the same footsteps realy.
And if that's still not enough Consolevania @NoMuiscFound found that Ryan has just released his own new show in the same vain as Cosolevania. ChuckieDregs!
This is probably not going to play for people outside of the UK however it is a musical piece using Computers and Consoles with Rab Florence as the Executive Producer.
And for the people who cant play that here is the Consolevania story with Brian Blessed.
And for those wondering why the mentioning of Kenny in the new series is no joke!
Hope people enjoy this.
Edit: I screwed up the "C" link...it was Limmy's Americanism sketch. FIXED now!
Edit: 2, Added an extra tweet of Rab saying his upcoming Show will be Comedy Satire on Video games.
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