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My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

A Guest. Five Games. One Perfect Console.

Simon Parkin

202 episodesEN

Show overview

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 202 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 250 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 9m and 1h 22m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Leisure show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 33 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Simon Parkin.

Episodes
202
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
1h 16m
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

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 Year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest Episodes

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Glen Henry, gamemaker, co-founder Jamaica Game Developer Society.

Aug 18, 20261h 15m

Amelia Tait, journalist, children's author.

Aug 11, 20261h 10m

James Trickey, comedian.

Aug 4, 20261h 16m

Pierce Brown, science fiction novelist (Red Rising series).

Jul 28, 20261h 32m

John Robertson, comedian, creator The Dark Room.

Jul 21, 20261h 36m

Andreas Thorstensson, former Counter-Strike champion, founder GOALS AB.

Jul 14, 20261h 19m

Abigoliah Schamaun, comedian.

Jul 7, 20261h 24m

Luke Whittaker, gamemaker. (South of the Circle, Lumino City).

Jun 30, 20261h 31m

Rob Dubbin, comedy writer, game designer (The Colbert Report, Scripto).

Jun 23, 20261h 53m

George Osborn, strategist, author (Power Play: Video Games, Politics, and the Battle for Global Influence.)

Jun 16, 20261h 29m

Gabríel Ólafs, pianist, composer, founder Reykjavík Orkestra.

Jun 9, 20261h 22m

Elise Kova, romantic fantasy novelist.

Jun 2, 20261h 31m

Brendan Greene, game-maker (PUBG, Prologue: Go Wayback!)

May 26, 20261h 23m

Stephen Totilo, journalist, editor.

May 19, 20261h 40m

Jerk Gustafsson, studio director, MachineGames (Wolfenstein series; Indiana Jones and the Great Circle).

May 12, 20261h 27m

Chandana Ekanayake, founder Outerloop Games (Falcon Age, Thirsty Suitors, Dosa Divas).

May 5, 20261h 26m

Natasha Hodgson, writer, composer, performer, Operation Mincemeat.

Apr 28, 20261h 42m

Simon Lockerby, streamer, founder Fateless Games.

Apr 21, 20261h 21m

C. Thi. Nguyen, author, philosopher.

Apr 14, 20261h 36m

Michael French MBE, founder, London Games Festival.

Apr 7, 20261h 26m
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