My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

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 GUARDIANTIME OUT'S 50 Best PodcastsVULTURE's Best Podcast of the Ye...

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My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

Episodes (181)

Tuesday Evan Narcisse, writer (Rise of the Black Panther, Spider-Man, Wu-Tang: Ruse of the Deceiver) - Live @ University of Chicago
Tue Mar 17th Ed Atkins, artist.
Tue Mar 10th Tom Keegan, performance director (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Battlefield, Resident Evil 2 Remake).

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

Mar 24, 2026
2½ hours
91 MB

Evan Narcisse is an American writer, journalist, and narrative designer whose work spans comics, criticism, and video games. After graduating from New York University, he began his career as a culture and technology journalist, writing for outlets including Time, Kotaku, and The Atlantic, where he explored the intersection of race, identity, and storytelling in popular media. He left journalism to become a writer for Marvel Comics, and there helped redefine a cultural icon with Rise of the Black Panther. As a narrative designer he has contributed to several major video game projects, including Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, ...

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

Evan Narcisse, writer (Rise of the Black Panther, Spider-Man, Wu-Tang: Ruse of the Deceiver) - Live @ University of Chicago

Simon Parkin

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