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Simon Parkin
My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning writer for the New Yorker and The Observer newspaper's video game critic invites a well-known guest from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on their very own 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 ahead of its...
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4.9 stars from 210 ratings
Consistently Charming
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“As someone who has been into video games since I was a kid (a long time ago…), this podcast seemed right up my alley. Interviews with people involved in the making of games, or those who are super-fans had me interested from the outset, but it’s the gentle way in which Simon asks interviewees...”Read full review »
Hobbes 2010 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/21/24
Great podcast for children of the 80d!
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“Some brilliant insight from a wide variety of guests with very different backgrounds. Listening from a hospital bed and it’s keeping my head up so thank you 👍🏻 also have had some great recommendations for games that are right up my street but I had missed (the messenger 🤌🏻). Good stuff.”
Brill for gamer dads via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/18/24
Wonderful
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“I could listen to Simon for hours… oh wait, i just did”
undefineddenidednu via Apple Podcasts ·
Germany ·
10/11/24
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