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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

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1:21:20

Basia Bułat, folk musician.

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2025/02/18

Basia Bulat is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born in Toronto into a family of Polish immigrants, music was always a close presence in the family home: her mother taught piano and guitar. After graduating with a degree in English literature from the University of Western Ontario, she began to pursue music as her own career path. Her debut album, Oh, My Darling was released by Rough Trade in 2007, and blended traditional folk with modern sensibilities. The record garnered critical acclaim and set

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1:20:27

Adanna Nedd, narrative designer (Spirit Swap: Lofi...

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2025/02/11

Adanna Nedd is a narrative designer and writer for video games. Born in the Chesapeake Bay State of Maryland, she studied Information Technology & English at Penn State University as a Millennium Scholar. While at Penn State, she started multiple research projects investigating how players represent themselves in video games through their choice of skins. After graduating, she began writing for games, specialising in character-driven stories focused on people of colour. My guest has written for

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1:20:58

Daniel Pemberton, composer (Slow Horses, Spider-Man:...

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2025/02/04

Daniel Pemberton is an Academy Award-nominated English composer and songwriter. In 1994, at the age of 16, he recorded an album in his bedroom using a multitrack cassette recorder. It caught the attention of the music producer Pete Namlook, who released it on his label, leading to a flurry of soundtrack commissions. In the years that followed, my guest wrote music for TV shows including Peep Show, The Dark Crystal,Enola Holmes,and Slow Horses.But it’s his feature film work for which he is best

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1:05:42

Best of 2024 (Part 2).

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2025/01/14

Part #2 of a collection of some of our favourite clips from My Perfect Console episodes released in 2024. Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:11:54

Best of 2024 (Part 1).

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2025/01/07

Enjoy this collection of some of our favourite clips from My Perfect Console episodes released in 2024. Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Console of the Year Award (2024).

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2024/12/31

A special episode with the winner of the My Perfect Console of the Year award, as voted bythe listeners to the show. Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:25:22

Game of the Year 2024 (ft. Glenn Moore).

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2024/12/24

Has 2024 been a good year for video games? HostSimon Parkinand comedianGlenn Mooreeach pick their five favourites of the year. Will any of their choices overlap? Will the game in the top spot start with a vowel? Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:25:41

G. T. Karber, crime writer, Murdle.

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2024/12/17

My guest today is G. T. Karber, the innovative crime writer and creator of the Murdle series of puzzle books. The son of a judge and a civil rights attorney, he studied mathematics and English literature at the University of Arkansas, then took a Masters at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. It was while he was working on a project in a coffee shop that he scribbled down a crime-themed puzzle on a napkin for a friend. He later put the puzzle online, then added another. Two weeks later his now agent

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1:21:29

Billy Basso, game-maker, Animal Well.

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2024/12/10

Billy Basso is an American creator of video games. Born in Chicago, he studied film, then earned his masters in Computer Science at DePaul University.After a stint working as a video editor, he moved into game development, first making educational games for schools in Chicago, and later at NetherRealm Studios, where he worked on smartphone versions of Mortal Kombatand Injustice. In May this year, my guest published Animal Well, a game which he started to work on in his spare time in 2017. For the

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Correspondence Special #5: The Best Video Game SFX?

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2024/12/05

In this special correspondence edition, Simon reads out your correspondence and answers your questions. Which ten games have been picked in the first 100 episodes more than any others? What are the best Christmas-themed video games? What are the best video game sound effects of all time? Who are the video game industry's true founding fathers (or mothers)? And a special teaser for Simon's next book project. Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console.Hosted on Acast. See

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1:27:03

Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia.

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2024/12/03

Jordan Mechner is an American author, game designer, graphic novelist and screenwriter. While a student at Yale University he designed and programmed the martial arts game Karateka. To create the animations in the game he pioneered a rotoscoping process to capture Super 8 film footage of his friends and family members. My guest further developed this technique for his next game. Prince of Persia became a best-seller, then a series, then, in 2010, a filmproduced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Jake

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1:22:03

Andy McNamara, former editor-in-chief, Game Informer.

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2024/11/26

Andy Macnamars is the former editor-in-chief ofGame Informer.He joined the bi-monthly magazine for its launch in 1991 as an editorial assistant. Within eighteen months he had been promoted to editor’s seat, which he the occupied for 25 years, growing the magazine’s readership from around 60,000 subscribers to, at its height, eight million, making it one of the most widely read publications anywhere. In 2020 he left Game Informer following a round of layoffs and joinedElectronic Arts, where he is

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1:18:06

Corinne Busche & John Epler, game directors, Dragon...

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2024/11/19

Corrine and John are the director and creative director ofDragon Age: The Veilguard. Corinne Busche majored in digital animation at theUniversity of Utah. In 2006 she joined the studio now known asEA Saltlake, working through the ranks to become a Design Director forThe Simsseries.John Epler studied English language and literature at theUniversity of Alberta. After graduating, he was selling televisions when he applied to be a tester atBioware. At the studio he began working as a writer and director

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1:21:36

Sarah Elmaleh, voice actor (Fortnite, Halo Infinite,...

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2024/11/12

My guest today is the American voice-actor and activist Sarah Elmaleh. As a student at Wesleyan University she performed in a variety of theatrical productions and radio plays, spending a portion of her studies at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford. After graduating she moved to Brooklyn, New York, and was working as a stage actor when she fell in with the city's game development scene, and decided to commit her life to the art form. She moved to Los Angeles and began voicing characters in

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1:10:34

Matt Firor, founder of ZeniMax Online Studios (The...

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2024/11/05

My guest today is the founder and director of ZeniMax Online Studio, Matt Firor. After studying history at George Washington University, he co-founded the developer Interesting Systems Inc., where he created a MUD-style text adventure titled Darkness Falls. In 1995 he co-founded Mythic Entertainment, where he produced pioneering online games such as Godzilla Online, Aliens Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace, and, in 2001, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot and

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1:11:51

Pitof Comar, film director (Catwoman, Alien:...

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2024/10/29

My guest today is a French film director and pioneer in the world of digital imaging. Born in Paris, he studied architecture and medicine at university before joining the film industry. He co-foundedDuran Duboi, a postproduction house that created visual effects for music videos by artists includingPrince,Madonna,Lenny Kravitz, andBoy George.As a VFX pioneer, he formed a close collaboration with the directorJean-Pierre Jeunet, with whom he worked on the feature films “Delicatessen”, “City of Lost

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1:16:10

Hannah Nicklin, playwright, narrative designer...

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2024/10/22

My guest today is Hannah Nicklin, a British writer and narrative designer for video games. After studying Drama at Loughborough University, and Playwriting at the University of Birmingham, she returned to Loughborough for a doctorate in interactive design as anti-capitalist practice.After several years working as a poet, theatre-maker, and academic, in 2019 she moved into games full time: writing, narrative designing and co-producing Mutazione, the most nominated game in the 2020 IGF awards. That

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1:06:48

Danny Wallace, writer & broadcaster (Yes Man,...

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2024/10/15

My guest today is the award-winning humourist, writer, and presenter Danny Wallace. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he published his first professional video game review at the age of thirteen while conducting work experience for Sega Power, a magazine that subsequently offered him a job. At 22, after graduating from The University of Westminster, he became a BBC comedy producer at, working on hit series such as Dead Ringers and The Mighty Boosh. In 2003 he published Join Me, a book about how he

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1:14:12

Nainita Desai, composer (Immortality, Call of Duty,...

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2024/10/08

My guest today is Nainita Desai, the British composer for film, television and video games. Born and raised in London by her Indian parents, she earned a degree in mathematics, then studied sound design at the National Film and Television School. She started her career as a sound designer on the films Little Buddha, Lessons of Darkness and Death Machine, before branching into composition for television, including, among hundreds of others, the Oscar-nominated For Sama, the hit Netflix series

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1:16:25

Eugene Jarvis, gamemaker (Defender, Robotron: 2084,...

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin ·

2024/10/01

My guest today is the American video game designer and programmer Eugene Jarvis. Born in California, he studied computer science at Berkeley, where, in the basement of the physics laboratory, he played the early video game Spacewar. After graduating he worked for Hewlitt Packard, but quit after three days to join Atari, where he began programming for some of the first computerised pinball machines. In the late seventies he joined Williams where he and a colleague came up with the idea for a

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