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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"Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIAN

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Heather Anne Campbell, comedian, screenwriter (Rick and Morty).

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Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress.

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Dara Ó Briain, comedian.

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Ashly Burch, actor (Mythic Quest, The Last of Us, Horizon).

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Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle.

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My guest today is a software engineer who, in 2021, released a word game that soon became a global obsession. He grew up in a Welsh farming village, attended the Royal Holloway University, then moved ...

24 Jan 202359min

Trailer

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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