Your Move
By Your Move
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Description
Board games. Video games. Anything but mind games. KMUW commentator Sam McConnell explores the latest (and the time-tested) world of games.
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| 1 | CleanVideoYour Move: Adaptive Controller | For years, people have been making single-handed game controllers to help people enjoy video games even if they have trouble using a standard controller. However, efforts like these have a definite DIY feel to them, having to open up the controller and | 2/20/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | CleanVideoYour Move: 'Kingdom Hearts 3' Is Actually Number 13 | Back in 2002, Square and Disney released an ambitious game - a game that was a crossover between Final Fantasy characters and Disney worlds, while having its own independent story. The game was Kingdom Hearts for the PlayStation 2, and it was a huge hit | 2/7/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | CleanVideoYour Move: 'Ace Combat 7' Is Melodramatic, But Good | I really enjoy flight simulator games, and even more when air-to-air combat is thrown in. Unfortunately, they don’t come out very often. Thankfully, a new entry in the Ace Combat series was just released - the first for the current generation of conso | 1/24/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | CleanVideoYour Move: Osmos | This commentary originally aired March 22, 2018. Puzzle video games have come a long way since Tetris. The genre has particularly flourished on smartphones, and one of my favorites that I’ve been playing for years is called Osmos . In Osmos , you play | 1/10/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | CleanVideoYour Move: Growing Up With Smash Bros | As I was preparing to write this piece, I thought to myself, “where do I start?” Super Smash Bros Ultimate is such a huge game, both considered as a stand-alone game and as the climax of an unlikely 20-year franchise. | 12/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | CleanVideoYour Move: 2018 Holiday Guide | The hot gift last holiday season was the Super Nintendo Mini, and this year Sony decided to get in the shrunken-down classic console game with the PlayStation Classic. The system comes with two controllers, and is loaded with 20 games from the PlayStati | 12/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | CleanVideoYour Move: The Evolution Of Video Game Music | Music in video games these days is typically produced like any other music, but when games came on cartridges, there wasn’t room for music recordings, and video game consoles had to make the music themselves. | 11/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | CleanVideoYour Move: Game Controllers | It’s easy to play video games on your PC - even if you don’t have a top of the line gaming computer with a $600 graphics card, enjoying indie games or old classics can be done on just about any computer, or, often, even your phone or tablet. But, a | 11/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | CleanVideoYour Move: Intellivision's Amico | When I was a kid, most of my friends had a Nintendo. Some of them had an older Atari system, too. And then, there was one friend who just had an Intellivision. The system, made by Mattel, was easy to distinguish from others by its controllers – they w | 11/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | CleanVideoYour Move: Desert Bus For Hope | One of the worst games never released is called Desert Bus . It was part of a collection for the Sega CD called “Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors." The disc was planned for release in the spring of 1995, but the publisher went out of business befor | 10/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | CleanVideoYour Move: Final Fantasy Re-release | It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the Final Fantasy series. I’ve been enthralled by the games ever since I played the Super Nintendo Final Fantasy II on a tiny TV in my bedroom back in 1996, staying up way past my bedtime - sorry, Mom. I’ve | 10/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | CleanVideoYour Move: Spider-Man On PS4 | Before Robert Downey, Jr. popularized Iron Man, the most well known of Marvel’s superheroes was Spider-Man. He stood apart from other heroes because, when he wasn’t fighting crime, he was a pretty ordinary kid with relatable problems. He’s flawed, | 9/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | CleanVideoYour Move: Freedom Planet | Last weekend I was browsing a list of upcoming releases for the Nintendo Switch, and I saw a game I never expected to see on the console - or on any console, really. Freedom Planet has been around in one form or another since 2012. The game started life | 9/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | CleanVideoYour Move: Video Games As Art | I consider video games an art form. Some people, famously including Roger Ebert, would disagree with me, and that’s fine. It’s harder to dispute, though, that a large amount of art goes into video games - concept art, 3D modelling, creative writing, | 8/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | CleanVideoYour Move: Tetris Effect | In the late ‘80s, one of the most well-known video games was Tetris . Originally from the Soviet Union and released in arcades and on a multitude of home computer platforms, the game was most popular when released for the Game Boy - in fact, it sold m | 8/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | CleanVideoYour Move: Octopath Traveler | One thing the Super Nintendo is fondly remembered for is its role playing games - titles like Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger, or Secret of Mana. These games are story-driven and have you play as a cast of characters usually working to save the world | 7/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | CleanVideoYour Move: Pokémon Go's New Updates | Many mobile games have a very short shelf life - they’re hyper-popular for a few months, and then quickly burn out as players move on to the next one. But here we are, two years after the launch of Pokémon Go, and the game has more players than it ev | 7/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | CleanVideoYour Move: Once Upon A Time | This commentary originally aired May 9, 2013. Fairy tales are a part of our shared cultural knowledge – if you refer to Jack and the Beanstalk, the Three Little Pigs, or Goldilocks, almost everyone knows what you are talking about. | 6/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | CleanVideoYour Move: 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo | For the last week, all the big game companies have been showing off what they’ll have for the next year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles. Microsoft had their E3 briefing on Sunday, and it was huge. They premiered 15 new game | 6/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | CleanVideoYour Move: The Arcade | Practically next door to KMUW’s studio is a little building that has something that Wichita has been missing for years - a real arcade, filled with games from the ‘80s and ‘90s, when arcades were at their peak. This arcade has a name that I think | 5/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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