My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
5.0/5
Critic Rating
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 ahead of its time...a gift." - NEW YORK'S VULTURE"Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIANTIME OUT'S 50 Best PodcastsVULTURE's Best Podcast of the Ye...
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."
