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My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
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... more

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Episodes

Correspondence Special #2: The best game Keita Takahashi never made.

In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence, answers questions, and offers at least one clue... more

16 May 2024 · 33 minutes
Teddy Dief, gamemaker (Hyper Light Drifter, We are OFK).

My guest today is the American videogame designer and writer, Teddy Dief. Born in Illinois, they graduated from Columbia University with... more

14 May 2024 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Keith Stuart, journalist & novelist (A Boy Made of Blocks, Love is a Curse).

My guest today is the English author and journalist, Keith Stuart. He grew up in a town near Stockport in... more

07 May 2024 · 1 hour, 20 minutes
Masaya Matsuura, musician, gamemaker (PaRappa the Rapper).

My guest today is Masaya Matsuura, a Japanese musician and game designer widely considered to be the inventor of rhythm... more

30 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 19 minutes
Sarah Keyworth, comedian.

My guest today is the English stand-up comedian Sarah Keyworth. Born in Nottingham in 1993 they studied drama at De... more

23 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
John Johanas, creative director Tango Gameworks (The Evil Within, Hi-Fi Rush).

My guest today is John Johanas, creative director at the Tokyo-based studio Tango Gameworks. Born on Long Island, New York,... more

16 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 26 minutes
Siobhan Reddy, co-deputy chair, BAFTA.

My guest today is Siobhan Reddy, a video game executive and the co-deputy chair of BAFTA. Born in South African... more

08 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Correspondence Special #1: Revisiting Jack Thompson.

In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin explores feedback from the recent episode with Jack Thompson, reads out listeners'... more

04 Apr 2024 · 38 minutes
Wes Fenlon, senior editor, PC Gamer.

My guest today is Wes Fenlon, a San Francisco-based writer and senior editor at the video game publication PC Gamer. Having... more

01 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 22 minutes
Jack Thompson, Former lawyer, "anti-video-game activist."

My guest today is former lawyer who gained recognition in the late nineties and early 2000s as an "anti-video game... more

25 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
Correspondence Special #2: The best game Keita Takahashi never made.
My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin