My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights.

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Trailer

Welcome to My Perfect Console with author, New Yorker journalist and The Observer's video game critic, Simon Parkin.Each week a guest picks the five video games they would like to immortalise on their...

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