My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
5.0/5
Critic Rating
In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, contributing writer for the New Yorker and The Observer newspaper's video game critic invites 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 their very own fictional games machine, and discuss what their choices mean to them."Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time...a gift." - NEW YORK'S VULTURE"Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIAN. TIME OUT'S 50 Best Podcasts. Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Oct 25, 2023
"Parkin is a solid interviewer: well-researched, exceedingly thoughtful, an active listener. In the aggregate, a collective history of taste emerges. Stories and themes about what’s important to the artistic development of the medium recur, and totemic games are recited and reinforced."
