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."Thoroughly modern and ahea...
Notable Guests
Episodes (205)
Best of 2023 (Part 1).
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Console of the Year Award (2023)
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Nolan Bushnell, co-founder Atari.
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Josh Scherr, narrative director (co-writer Uncharted 4, The Last of Us Part II).
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Iain Stirling, comedian, voice of Love Island.
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Mike Rose, indie game publisher (No More Robots).
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Jason Schreier, investigative journalist, Bloomberg.
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Bryan Lee O'Malley, graphic novelist (Scott Pilgrim).
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Naomi Alderman, novelist (The Power, The Future).
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Meghna Jayanth, narrative designer (80 Days, Sunless Seas, Thirsty Suitors).
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Lucas Pope, gamemaker (Papers, Please; Return of the Obra Dinn).
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David Wilson, former Director of Communications, PlayStation. (LIVE @ WASD)
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Pierre Novellie, comedian.
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Jennifer Hale, voice actor (Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, Knights of the Old Re...
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Kieron Gillen, comic book author (Star Wars, X-Men, Iron Man, DIE).
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Annabel Ashalley-Anthony, founder Melanin Gamers.
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Clint Hocking, creative director (Splinter Cell, Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs Legion, A...
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Peter Molyneux O.B.E., video game designer (Populous, Theme Park, Fable).
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Frank Lantz, founding chair, NYU Game Center.
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Stella Wisdom, digital curator, British Library.
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Sam Barlow, game director (Silent Hill, Her Story, Immortality).
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Joseph Mackertich, editor, Time Out.
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Paul Chowdhry, actor, comedian.
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Dominic Armato, food critic & voice actor (The Curse of Monkey Island, Sea of Th...
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Chella Ramanan, narrative designer (Tales of Windrush; Avatar: Frontiers of Pand...
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Dylan Cuthbert, President Q-Games.
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Glenn Moore, comedian.
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Marie Le Conte, political journalist.
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Jörg Tittel, writer & director (The Last Worker, C-Smash VRS)
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Greg Kasavin, creative director, Supergiant Games (Hades, Bastion.)
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Tom Bissell, author & scriptwriter (Gears of War, Star Wars: Andor.)
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Sooz Kempner, comedian.
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Kelsey Lewin, co-director Video Game History Foundation.
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Danny Pudi, actor (Community, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet).
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi, gamemaker (Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden).
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Iain Cook, musician (Chvrches).
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Ellie Gibson, comedian (Scummy Mummies).
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Ronan Farrow, investigative journalist, New Yorker.
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Dan Vecchitto, gamemaker (Trombone Champ).
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Charles Cecil MBE, gamemaker (Broken Sword, Beneath a Steel Sky).
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Grace Curtis, science fiction author (Frontier, Floating Hotel).
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Erik Wolpaw, writer Portal 1 & 2.
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Sir Ian Livingstone, co-founder Games Workshop.
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Susan Calman, comic, writer, presenter.
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Henk Rogers, the man who sold Tetris.
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Jake Solomon, game designer (Marvel’s Midnight Suns; XCOM: Enemy Unknown.)
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Phil Wang, comedian.
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Shahid Ahmad, former director, Sony PlayStation.
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Phil Fish, creator of Fez.
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Heather Anne Campbell, comedian, screenwriter (Rick and Morty).
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