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.

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