When it comes to retro video games, I trust no one more than Jeremy Parish. In college, I listened obsessively to his retro podcast, Retronauts, memorizing each deep-dive as if I were studying for a grad school entry exam on the localization issues of early Final Fantasy games.

I had the good fortune to work with Parish during my first full-time job in games media and kept finding ways to collaborate (including at Polygon) until he exited the press a couple of years ago to help the folks at Limited Run games preserve games and their history. Parish left media, but never really stopped doing his job. He still co-hosts Retronauts, still produces YouTube videos cataloging the history of retro games on entry at a time, and still publishers books, the most recent of which, I adore.