My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
Hosted by Simon Parkin · Simon Parkin
5.0from 453 ratings
- 214
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 453
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
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 GUARDIAN TIME OUT'S 50 Best Podcasts VULTURE's Best Podcast of the Year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Simon Parkin
- Category
- leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 214 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Úna-Minh Kavanagh, writer, producer and Irish-language game localiser (Among Us, VVVVVV).
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Paolo Pedercini, founder MolleIndustria (McDonald's Videogame, The New York Times Simulator, Future? No Thanks!)
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Anna Donlon, head of Valorant Studios (Valorant, League of Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops)
Inside a recent episode
Úna-Minh Kavanagh, writer, producer and Irish-language game localiser (Among Us, VVVVVV).
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's like, whoa, what is going on? Like, who am I? I don't really understand where I fit into this world. And mom even mentioned... Now, when I came back to Ireland in 98, I told her as a seven year old, I don't think I belong anywhere. And for her, that was really hard to hear at the time. So I think especially for adoptees who come from like one race and brought into another one, it's particularly difficult to kind of adapt. And it's still something that I'm still, you know, working my way through. Yeah, I think that's quite common, isn't it? For any kid who moves country, Even at a young age, that sense of do I belong in where I came from or the other place is quite common. […]
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- Úna-Minh Kavanagh
- Paolo Pedercini
- Anna Donlon
- Chris Cantrill
- Sarah Maria Griffin
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 69 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 384 ratings
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- 59
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- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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