My Perfect Console with 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 guest 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. 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.

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Dara Ó Briain, comedian.

My guest today is a stand-up comedian, television presenter and Irish national treasure. He studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University College, Dublin, where during a debate, he cracked a joke, made the audience laugh, and forever doomed himself to chasing that high. Since then, he has toured the world as a comic, as well as becoming a prolific television host: he has chaired Mock the Week , Have I Got New For You , Blockbusters , Robot Wars , Stargazing Live , and the video game-...

Feb 07, 2023•59 min•Ep. 3

Ashly Burch, actor (Mythic Quest, The Last of Us, Horizon).

[Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of addiction to prescription pain medication and fatal overdose.] My guest today is an American writer and performer who stars in Apple TV’s Mythic Quest series, and who has, in recent years, voiced some of video gaming’s best-loved characters. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and rose to prominence via the web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’ , in which she starred alongside her brother, Anthony. Since then she has become a prolific voice actor ...

Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 2

Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle.

My guest today is a software engineer who, in 2021, released a word game that soon became a global obsession. He grew up in a Welsh farming village, attended the Royal Holloway University, then moved to North America to study for a Masters. In 2011, after graduating, he joined the staff of the website Reddit, where he began to design experimental games such as The Button , Place and, in his spare time, a game called Wordle . Several years later he returned to the Wordle prototype, which he finis...

Jan 24, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 1

Trailer

Welcome to My Perfect Console with author, New Yorker journalist and The Observer's video game critic, Simon Parkin. Each week a guest picks the five video games they would like to immortalise on their very own fictional games console. Trailer episode featuring clips from forthcoming episodes with Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, and Charles Cecil MBE, co-founder of Revolution Software, creator of the Broken Sword video game series. Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-c...

Jan 16, 2023•10 min

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