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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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...

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Ellie Gibson, comedian (Scummy Mummies).

Ellie Gibson, comedian (Scummy Mummies).

My guest today is Ellie Gibson, an award--winning journalist, presenter, and one half of the comedy double act Scummy Mummies. Born in South London, my guest joined Sony in 2001 and there wrote the ma...

28 Apr 20231h 11min

Ronan Farrow, investigative journalist, New Yorker.

Ronan Farrow, investigative journalist, New Yorker.

My guest today is the Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist Ronan Farrow. Born in New York City he earned his degree in philosophy at just fifteen. While a teenager he served as a U...

24 Apr 20231h 10min

Dan Vecchitto, gamemaker (Trombone Champ).

Dan Vecchitto, gamemaker (Trombone Champ).

My guest today is Dan Vecchitto, the American creator of one of 2022’s funniest games. In Trombone Champ, you play as a trombonist and must blast your way through a setlist of classical pieces, nation...

20 Apr 20231h 5min

Charles Cecil MBE, gamemaker (Broken Sword, Beneath a Steel Sky).

Charles Cecil MBE, gamemaker (Broken Sword, Beneath a Steel Sky).

My guest today is the legendary British video game designer, Charles Cecil. While a student at Manchester University, a friend invited him to write a text adventure which led him to work for the video...

17 Apr 202357min

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