Joueur du Grenier

Le Joueur du Grenier (literally "The Attic Gamer") is the main character and title of a web television series of farcical retrogaming video reviews created by French filmmaker Frédéric Molas in 2009, starring himself and Sébastien Rassiat.[1][2] Similarly to the Angry Video Game Nerd, which is the direct inspiration for the show, it generally revolves around retro game reviews that involve rants against games of particularly low-quality or poor design.[3]

Joueur du grenier
Sébastien Rassiat (left) and Frédéric Molas (right)
GenrePhysical comedy, satire, Video game reviewer
Created byFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
Written byFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
Karim Debbache
Directed byFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
StarringFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
Theme music composerYannick Crémer
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes"Tests du grenier" : 79
"Papy Grenier" : 14
"Hors-series" : 20
"Autres" : 11
= 136 videos
Production
ProducersFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
Production locationFougères (2012-present)
EditorsFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
Camera setupSébastien Rassiat
Running timeVaries, around 10-20 minutes for an episode
Release
Original networkYouTube
Dailymotion
Original releaseSeptember 26, 2009 (2009-09-26) –
present
External links
Website

On September 13, 2012, he created a new series called Papy Grenier, where on the contrary, he talks about good video games for a period of 5 to 8 minutes per episode. He created later the Bazar du Grenier ("The Attic Bazar") channel which is including more diversified videos (including playthroughs or cinema critics). He has more than 3,3 million subscribers on Youtube on his primary channel, and more than 1,5 million on his secondary Bazar channel. Therefore, it is one of the leading French channels on the website.

Principle

The series's title, "Joueur du Grenier", harkens back to the idea of bringing out old archived games. The show exploits the same popular concept as the American counterpart, The Angry Video Game Nerd, namely the review of video games dating from the 1980s, 1990s and lately 2000s, most often deemed bad.[4]

"The Attic Gamer" is the main character of the series: he performs the tests on his sofa in front of a camera. During the show, he always wears a yellow shirt with green palm trees, which makes him recognizable.[3] In the first episodes, Sébastien does not appear, taking care of the set or making off-screen comments, before playing a large part of the secondary characters in the following episodes.[3] Over time, many YouTubers appear as extras; from local french youtubers like Usul or Antoine Daniel, to featuring American internet comedians like The Nostalgia Critic's Doug Walker[5] and even the Angry Video Game Nerd himself, James Rolfe, for the 11th anniversary episode of the series. Between 2013 and 2014, new members were added to the team and appeared as extras: "Shun Geek" (Aurora) and "Sorina Chan", respectively in charge of costumes and illustrations.[6] Karim Debbache works on writing and directing the episodes; the latter left the team in 2016 to devote himself to his own show, Chroma, then returned to it in 2019.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Le Joueur du Grenier dépoussière les jeux vidéo" (in French). LCI. 2010-12-09. Archived from the original on 2012-04-22. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  2. "On a rencontré le Joueur du Grenier" (in French). La Provence. 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  3. "Le Joueur du grenier déterre le pire pour le meilleur" (in French). Le Point. 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  4. Grasseler, Pierre-André; Flaoua (2012). "Le Joueur de Grenier, l'interview" (in French) (1). Kultur Pop Hors-série. p. 5.
  5. "Nostalgia Chick : humour, féminisme et contradictions sur Internet" (in French). Madmoizelle. le très célèbre Nostalgia Critic qui a notamment fait un caméo dans deux épisodes de JDG
  6. Ladydandy. "Le Joueur du Grenier en interview à Japan Expo 2014" (in French). Madmoizelle. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
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