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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

210 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 210 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 260 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 23m — 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 6 days ago, with 41 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Simon Parkin.

Episodes
210
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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Úna-Minh Kavanagh, writer, producer and Irish-language game localiser (Among Us, VVVVVV).

Oct 6, 20261h 14m

Paolo Pedercini, founder MolleIndustria (McDonald's Videogame, The New York Times Simulator, Future? No Thanks!)

Sep 29, 20261h 21m

Anna Donlon, head of Valorant Studios (Valorant, League of Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops)

Sep 22, 20261h 30m

Correspondence Special #9: Which games should have been on the podcast by now (and much more)

Sep 17, 202638 min

Chris Cantrill, comedian, writer Saturday Night Live UK.

Sep 15, 20261h 29m

Sarah Maria Griffin, poet, author (Eat the Ones You Love; Strange is the Light)

Sep 8, 20261h 25m

Mike Diver, journalist, author (Aliens: The Video Games)

Sep 1, 20261h 27m

Soren Johnson, game designer (Civ III, Civ IV, Spore, Old World)

Aug 25, 20261h 36m

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
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