Simon Parkin is a British writer and journalist. He is contributing writer for the New Yorker, a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Long Read, and game critic for The Observer newspaper. His second book, A Game of Birds and Wolves, a work of narrative non-fiction set during the Second World War, was published by Sceptre in November 2019.

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• One: Confidential MissionTwo: What Dreams Are Made OfThree: Five Thousand Names in a HatFour: ArrivalFive: Borders DownSix: To Make Friends and Influence PeopleSeven: A Phantasy OnlineEight: Loss of a Dream MakerNine: Insert Credit to ContinueTen: Dream OnEleven: Hardware DevelopmentTwelve: Hardware Production DrawingsThirteen: Hardware ShowcaseFourteen: Game Production ArtworkFifteen: Making Jet Set RadioSixteen: Making SegagagaSeventeen: Making Crazy TaxiEighteen: Making ShenmueNineteen: Making Space Channel 5Twenty: In-Game Artwork

Simon Parkin is a British writer and journalist. He is contributing writer for the New Yorker, a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Long Read, and game critic for The Observer newspaper. His second book, A Game of Birds and Wolves, a work of narrative non-fiction set during the Second World War, was published by Sceptre in November 2019.

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• One: Confidential MissionTwo: What Dreams Are Made OfThree: Five Thousand Names in a HatFour: ArrivalFive: Borders DownSix: To Make Friends and Influence PeopleSeven: A Phantasy OnlineEight: Loss of a Dream MakerNine: Insert Credit to ContinueTen: Dream OnEleven: Hardware DevelopmentTwelve: Hardware Production DrawingsThirteen: Hardware ShowcaseFourteen: Game Production ArtworkFifteen: Making Jet Set RadioSixteen: Making SegagagaSeventeen: Making Crazy TaxiEighteen: Making ShenmueNineteen: Making Space Channel 5Twenty: In-Game Artwork

Simon Parkin is a British writer and journalist. He is contributing writer for the New Yorker, a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Long Read, and game critic for The Observer newspaper. His second book, A Game of Birds and Wolves, a work of narrative non-fiction set during the Second World War, was published by Sceptre in November 2019.

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• One: Confidential MissionTwo: What Dreams Are Made OfThree: Five Thousand Names in a HatFour: ArrivalFive: Borders DownSix: To Make Friends and Influence PeopleSeven: A Phantasy OnlineEight: Loss of a Dream MakerNine: Insert Credit to ContinueTen: Dream OnEleven: Hardware DevelopmentTwelve: Hardware Production DrawingsThirteen: Hardware ShowcaseFourteen: Game Production ArtworkFifteen: Making Jet Set RadioSixteen: Making SegagagaSeventeen: Making Crazy TaxiEighteen: Making ShenmueNineteen: Making Space Channel 5Twenty: In-Game Artwork