Joueur du Grenier
Sébastien Rassiat (left) and Frédéric Molas (right), in 2018
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
Opening theme"Musique Générique" by Yannick Crémer
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes"Tests du grenier" : 83
"Papy Grenier" : 16
"Hors-séries" : 23
"Autres" : 11
= 133 videos
Production
ProducersFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
Production locationsPerpignan (2009-2012)
Fougères (2012-present)
EditorsFrédéric Molas
Sébastien Rassiat
Camera setupSébastien Rassiat
Running time10-20 minutes (2012-present)
Up to an hour
Original release
NetworkYouTube
Dailymotion
Twitch
ReleaseSeptember 26, 2009 (2009-09-26) –
present
Related
Bazar 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 filmmakers Frédéric Molas and Sébastien Rassiat in 2009, starring Frédéric Molas and Sébastien Rassiat themselves.[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]

On September 13, 2012, the channel created a new series called Papy Grenier ("Grandpa Attic"), where on the contrary, Le Joueur du Grenier talks about good video games for a period of 5 to 8 minutes per episode. They created later the Bazar du Grenier ("The Attic Bazar") channel which is including more diversified videos (including playthroughs or cinema critics). They have more than 3,6 million subscribers on Youtube on their primary channel, and more than 1,8 million on their secondary Bazar channel. Therefore, it is one of the leading French channels on the website. Since 2020, Frédéric Molas also hosts a stream channel on Twitch, named Joueur_du_Grenier, and has accumulated over 700,000 subscribers.

History

Early life of the duo

Sébastien Rassiat and Frédéric Molas at Toulouse Game Show in 2010, at the beginning of their career.

Frédéric Molas (born 26 November 1982 in Perpignan), has been passionate about video games since the age of 7,[4] particularly the Mega Drive, his favorite console.[5] After his Baccalauréat, he obtains a certificate of Brevet de technicien supérieur in communication to companies which allows him to continue in a Bachelor's degree on multimedia. He began to take an interest in video by making machinimas (video created from images of video games), while at the same time he was training at the Institute for multimedia development and teaching, where he met Sébastien Rassiat[6] (born 12 October 1982).[7]

Together, they create an association to make institutional videos,[4] working on a voluntary basis for a year, before receiving a small salary. Thinking that their association would last only a few more months, they created the program Le Joueur du Grenier in September 2009 at the start of their unemployment.[4] Inspired by the web show called The Angry Video Game Nerd, its theme is testing video games known for their poor quality or extreme difficulty.

Joueur du Grenier (2009—present)

In September 2012, they moved to the city of Fougères, where they settled with other online video producers.[7] In November 2013, the duo joined the NESblog collective, comprising videographers like Realmyop, Cœurdevandale, Usul, Karim Debbache, and many others, who make frequent appearances in their videos.

In March 2012, Frédéric Molas and Sébastien Rassiat created with the videographer Krayn the AFK (Away from keyboard) concept, focused on MMOs, but which ultimately did not succeed. However, the concept returned in a new form in April 2013, under the name LFG - Looking For Games, broadcast as a weekly column on Jeuxvideo.com.[8] In season 1, Fred and Krayn present the aspects of an MMORPG, changing the game every four shows, while Seb presents a word specific to the MMORPG vocabulary at each start of the show. Fred and Seb, on the other hand, are less present in season 2, mainly dealing with MMO news. The show ends in July 2015.

Between May 16 and June 6, 2012, Frédéric Molas and Sébastien Rassiat produced four short humorous presentation videos of the video game Dragon's Dogma, at the request of Capcom.[9]

Frédéric Molas was one of the guests of the fourth edition of the Toulouse Game Show in November 2010, of which he has been a recurring guest ever since, even becoming the headliner of the show in 2019.[10] He was also invited to the JapaNîmes festival in June 2012.[11] He was also present at Retro Game Day 2011. He participates with Sébastien Rassiat since 2011 in Geek Faëries and Japan Expo.[12] He is also present at the Japan Tours Festival which took place at the Vinci, in Tours, from 2015.[13]

In 2019, Frédéric Molas participated in the third edition of the Z Event, a charity event that raised more than 3,500,000 euros to fund research at the Pasteur Institute.[14] He renewed his participation in the 2020 edition, which raised the sum of €5,724,377 for Amnesty International,[15] and then in the 2021 edition, which raised the sum of over €10 million for Action Against Hunger.[16]

Video series

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.[17]

"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[18] and even the Angry Video Game Nerd himself, James Rolfe, for the 11th anniversary episode of the series.

Channel's history

Creation and debut (2009—2012)

In 2009, for fun,[5][4] Frédéric Molas and Sébastien Rassiat decided to create a series of tests of old video games on the same concept as The Angry Video Game Nerd by James Rolfe, which is very successful.[3] Recognizing that their first two videos were on the verge of plagiarism, Frédéric Molas nevertheless underlines that they then find their own identity, in particular with the character of the Attic Gamer.[4][6] During a Twitch livestream from November 2020, where he revisited his old videos, Frédéric Molas explained that the show was originally called Big Review, a nod to the 1977 song "Big Bisou" by the singer Jean-Chrysostome Dolto, known as Carlos. Moreover, the Hawaiian shirt would also refer to the one worn by the singer. In this same livestream, he indicates that their respective roles were absolutely not defined.[19]

In June 2012, a DVD of the show was sold with a special issue of the magazine Kultur Pop, containing the first ten episodes, an interview, commented episodes and a new episode.[20] In September 2012, Frédéric Molas and Sébastien Rassiat left Perpignan and moved to Fougères to be closer to Paris. They thus founded an economic interest group with the Nesblog team in order to hire a sound engineer, Nico.[21][22]

Departure to Fougères and follow-up (2012—2018)

Sorina Chan, illustrator and regular actress of the show in Polymanga, in 2017.

A series of comics produced by the cartoonist Piratesourcil is published from October 2012.[23] It relates the youth of Frédéric Molas before becoming the Attic Gamer, who is already a fan of video games. The first volume was released on October 25, 2012, and published by Hugo et compagnie, the second on September 19, 2013, and the third on September 4, 2014.[24][25]

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.[26] 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.[26][4] It was also in 2019 that a fifth member joined the team as production manager, The SadPanda.[27]

The publishing house Omaké Books and Joueur du Grenier are teaming up to release the episodes in the form of a fan book containing, in addition to the series of tests, commented episodes, bonus videos as well as an interview with the two protagonists. The first volume was released on July 8, 2015, the second on November 16, 2015, the third on June 16, 2016, the fourth on May 10, 2017, and the fifth on July 4, 2019.[28]

Tenth anniversary (2019—present)

Frédéric Molas and Sébastien Rassiat during the Geek Faëries event, in June 2018.

In 2019, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the show, the writing of a special episode is launched.[29] But following a postponement of the shooting and other delays, it begins on August 3, 2020, and takes place throughout Ille-et-Vilaine and Orne before ending in Paris on August 22, and the anniversary episode becomes the 11-year-old episode.[30][31] The production and direction of the episode involved 25 people in the technical team, four actors and a hundred extras.[32][30] The total production's cost of the episode was above 115,000 €.[33]

Non-show filmography

Thanks to their success on YouTube, the duo have managed to participate on other medias outside of their own content, and even dubbing characters since 2014.

Frédéric Molas

Year Series Role Note Ref.
Actor
2011 Le Golden Show #2 - Les Chinois du Grenier Joueur du Grenier
2012 Noob (Web series) Chef of Vides Grenier Season 4, episode 14
Dusk Math teacher Short parody of Twilight directed by ESRA Brittany by LinksTheSun [34]
La Dernière Série avant la Fin du Monde Virtual comedian Series by Damien Maric
2014 Le Visiteur du futur Psychologist Web series, season 4, episode 1
2016 La Cartouche Manager and Seller of the Retro Store Short film by Cyprien Iov
2017 Noob Film 3, season 8
SaturdayMan DJ Attic Season 1, episodes 1 and 2
2018 Disney et les 2000 Psychologist Made by InThePanda
Tarantino : surcoté ? Psychologist Made by InThePanda
RAM (Robot Acteur Manager) Technician Made by Curry Club
2019 The Ouicheur Yennefer Diptych, co-directed with Benzaie
Dubbing
2015 Les Starbarbares Guerriers de Pangaïa (French) Animated web-series by Harry Partridge, episode 2
2020 StarFlint: The Black Hole Prophecy Valentin Video game

Sébastien Rassiat

Year Series Role Note Ref.
Actor
2012 Noob Advisor to the Vide Grenier leader Web series, season 4, episode 14
2017 The wise old man Film 3, season 8
2018 RAM (Robot Acteur Manager) Stan Made by Curry Club
2019 The Ouicheur Geralt de Riv (aged) Diptych co-directed with Benzaie
2021 Brocéliande Maître Bien-Assez Web series
Dubbing
2014 Les Starbarbares Sayad le sorcier (French) Animated web-series by Harry Partridge, episode 1
Trinosaure (French) Episode 1.5
2015 Les Éternoïdes (French) Episode 2
2019 Episode 3
2020 StarFlint: The Black Hole Prophecy Anderson Video game

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. 1 2 3 4 "Le Joueur du grenier déterre le pire pour le meilleur" (in French). Le Point. 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Fougères. Le joueur du grenier fait rire avec les vieux jeux vidéo". Ouest-France (in French). October 9, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Frédéric Molas alias le Joueur du Grenier". France retrogaming (in French). October 10, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  6. 1 2 Guillaume Deleurence (May 31, 2013). "Le joueur du grenier : " Je ne suis pas une icône du rétrogaming ! "". 01net (in French). Retrieved January 12, 2014..
  7. 1 2 Sophie Gindensperger (April 7, 2015). "Frédéric Molas et Sébastien Rassiat : Joystick et tac". Liberation.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  8. ↑ "Nouvelle chronique ! Dès jeudi sur Jeuxvideo.com". Jeuxvideo.com.
  9. ↑ "Dragon's Dogma, présentation humoristique en 4 vidéos de " Fred " et " Seb " (Le Joueur Du Grenier)". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). June 8, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Le youtubeur "Le Joueur du grenier" sera la tête d'affiche du prochain Toulouse Game Show". actu.fr. 29 July 2019. Retrieved November 18, 2020..
  11. ↑ "JapaNîmes 4 à Nîmes (Les 2 et 3 juin 2012)". Animint. Retrieved November 18, 2020..
  12. ↑ "Geek Faëries 2021 - édition V11.2 du festival de la culture Geek IRL". www.rom-game.fr. Retrieved November 18, 2020..
  13. ↑ "Japan Tours Festival 2015". www.rom-game.fr. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  14. ↑ Jean-Baptiste Garat (2019-09-23). "Les gamers de ZEvent récoltent plus de 3,5 millions d'euros pour l'Institut Pasteur". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  15. ↑ Le Point magazine, ed. (2020-10-19). "Plus de 5,7 millions d'euros récoltés par les gamers du " Z Event "". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  16. ↑ Mathieu Yerle (2021-10-25). "Ce qu'il faut savoir sur le ZEvent 2021, le marathon caritatif en ligne organisé du 29 au 31 octobre". Le Figaro. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  17. ↑ Grasseler, Pierre-André; Flaoua (2012). "Le Joueur de Grenier, l'interview" (in French). No. 1. Kultur Pop Hors-série. p. 5.
  18. ↑ "Nostalgia Chick : humour, féminisme et contradictions sur Internet" (in French). Madmoizelle. 25 August 2013. le très célèbre Nostalgia Critic qui a notamment fait un caméo dans deux épisodes de JDG
  19. ↑ Noto, Justin (November 5, 2020). "JDG : Fred et Seb ont choisi au dernier moment qui porterait la chemise" (in French). Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  20. ↑ "Le JOUEUR DU GRENIER en DVD". AnimeLand (in French). June 26, 2012. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015..
  21. ↑ "Pourquoi le Joueur du grenier cartonne sur Internet". actu.fr (in French). 27 January 2015. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  22. ↑ S.B (2015-08-21). "Le Joueur du Grenier critique les jeux anciens". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  23. ↑ "Le Joueur du Grenier en BD". AnimeLand (in French). Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2021-04-23..
  24. ↑ "Le Joueur du Grenier revient en BD". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). 12 September 2013.
  25. ↑ "Un peu de lecture avec Joueur du Grenier 3 - L'Appel aux Devoirs". jeuxvideo.fr (in French). 16 October 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  26. 1 2 Ladydandy. "Le Joueur du Grenier en interview à Japan Expo 2014" (in French). Madmoizelle. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  27. ↑ "HÉ HO DU BATEAU ! Y'A QUELQU'UN SUR CE SITE ?". Joueur Du Grenier (in French). 2019-12-23. Archived from the original on 2020-01-26. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  28. ↑ Joueur du Grenier, Fan Book, saison 2 (livre + 3 DVD). Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  29. ↑ "YouTube : à Fougères, le Joueur du Grenier tourne une vidéo exceptionnelle pour ses dix ans". actu.fr (in French). 13 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  30. 1 2 Anna BONNEMASOU CARRERE (2020-08-14). "Le Joueur du grenier, le youtubeur aux 3,5 millions d'abonnés, en tournage à Fougères". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  31. ↑ Ouest-France (2020-11-13). "Fougères. Le Joueur du Grenier offre une vidéo spéciale pour ses 11 ans". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  32. ↑ "VIDEO. Fougères : pour ses 11 ans, Joueur du Grenier a " tout lâché "". actu.fr (in French). 30 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  33. ↑ "Joueur_du_Grenier - Jdg" (in French). Retrieved 2021-08-08.
  34. ↑ ululeFR. "Dusk". Ulule (in French). Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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