My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

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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Jörg Tittel, writer & director (The Last Worker, C-Smash VRS)

Jörg Tittel, writer & director (The Last Worker, C-Smash VRS)

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Greg Kasavin, creative director, Supergiant Games (Hades, Bastion.)

Greg Kasavin, creative director, Supergiant Games (Hades, Bastion.)

My guest today is creative director and writer of some of the most memorable and influential independent games of recent years, including Bastion, Pyre, Transistor and, most recently, the smash hit Ha...

12 Juni 20231h 16min

Tom Bissell, author & scriptwriter (Gears of War, Star Wars: Andor.)

Tom Bissell, author & scriptwriter (Gears of War, Star Wars: Andor.)

My guest today is an award-winning author, journalist and writer for film, television, and video games. After graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in English literature, he travelle...

5 Juni 20231h 19min

Sooz Kempner, comedian.

Sooz Kempner, comedian.

My guest today is Sooz Kempner, an English actress, pianist, singer and award-winning stand-up comedian. Born into a showbiz dynasty – the family dog appeared in an advertisment for Nissan, and their ...

29 Maj 20231h 2min

Kelsey Lewin, co-director Video Game History Foundation.

Kelsey Lewin, co-director Video Game History Foundation.

My guest today is Kelsey Lewin, co-director of the Video Game History Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games.In 2017, after graduating...

22 Maj 20231h 14min

Danny Pudi, actor (Community, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet).

Danny Pudi, actor (Community, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet).

My guest today is Danny Pudi, an American comedian and actor, who played the role of Abed Nadir in the long-running American sitcom Community. Born in Chicago, Illinois to a Polish mother and an India...

15 Maj 20231h

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, gamemaker (Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden).

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, gamemaker (Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden).

My guest today is Tetsuya Mizucguchi, the Japanese designer of some of the most transcendent music-themed video games yet made.He graduated with a degree in media aesthetics from Nihon University, the...

8 Maj 202358min

Iain Cook, musician (Chvrches).

Iain Cook, musician (Chvrches).

My guest today is Iain Cook, a Scottish musician, producer, and pop star. In 2003, while studying at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, he met Martin Doherty, who asked my guest to produce a r...

1 Maj 20231h 11min

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