🎙️🌅 Our latest Translation brings English readers "The Interwoven Threads of Experimental Games," a wide-ranging conversation about art, games, history, and criticism between Zitao Ye + Yanqin Gao from the Chinese podcast Sunset Sway, translated by Gurn Group. romchip.org/index.php/ro...

📺👻 Skot Thayer's "The Ghost in the Coax" explores Sega's ambitious and short-lived 1990s game delivery service. Drawing on newly preserved materials from the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social, it tells a story of cable tv and digital distribution in the 1990s. romchip.org/index.php/ro...

🕹️🌍 Guillaume Guenat and Pierre-Yves Hurel interview Yves Greppin, the Swiss engineer who coordinated Atari's European distribution in the early 1980s Original (French): romchip.org/index.php/ro... English translation: romchip.org/index.php/ro...

✍️💬 Actor, Writer, Technology Spirit continues! In Part 2 of ROMchip editor @lainenooney.bsky.social's interview with Leigh Alexander, the conversation follows Alexander's transition from games journalist to narrative designer and consultant. romchip.org/index.php/ro...

👾 Our lead article asks: what happens when you write Chinese game history through the lens of gender? In "Women at Play: Feminist Reinscriptions of Chinese Game History, 1980s to Post-2010s," Mayshu Zhan reconstructs four decades of Chinese gaming history romchip.org/index.php/ro...

🚨🚨🚨 we're sweetening the deal w/ a FREE ROMchip videogames/video games hat (dealers choice) for anyone who can track down either a playable copy of this game or substantial corroborating historical materials (packaging, reviews, references in business articles, information on the developers, etc).

pride month ain't over yet 🌈 friend of ROMchip @adrishaw.bsky.social is looking for help tracking down the bathhouse-inspired 1983 game VAPOR PALACE. Published by BANANASOFT (yes you read that right) Released for the Timex 1000, TRS80 III, Apple II and IBM PC can anyone help, game history fam?

Late to get this news b/c The Strong isn't on this bird site, but here's their latest inductees into the World Video Game Hall of Fame! Angry Birds 🐦 Dragon Quest 🐉 EA Sports FIFA ⚽ Silent Hill 🏚 www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/wor...

just in time for that summer sun: VIDEOGAMES v. VIDEO GAMES (even has a romchip logo on the back! get your exclusive journal merch here: romchip-a-journal-of-game-histories-shop.fourthwall.com)

Here's our whole fundraiser schedule at a glance! It all goes down THIS SATURDAY, February 21, 11AM-11PM ET -- don't miss it! (and don't forget to donate!) donate.romchip.org

Fun Updates for Fundraiser Week: 1. We're officially over $3K raised--43% of our Tier 1 goal, in advance of our Saturday fundraiser. Amazing work! 2. We just dropped the recording of Carlin Wing's talk on her new book, Bounce, on our YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ROMchipJour...

📢 TODAY ONLY @ 2pm ET 📢 ⚽🔁🎾 Carlin Wing talks bouncing balls across games, sports, and science––showing how bounce links physics, animation, and computing across history. 📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk!📺 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh

📢 TODAY ONLY @ 2pm ET 📢 📈🕹️👑 Raiford Guins discusses PONG’s long life, Atari’s rise, and how a simple game built markets, shaped categories, and still circulates today. 📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk! 📺 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh

📢 TODAY ONLY - @ 2PM ET 📢 🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time. 📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk! 📺 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE

📢 THIS Friday Jan 23 @ 2pm ET 📢 🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time. 🗡️📜🕹️ 🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/P2lVM1D 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh

⚔️ And in our Materials section (ft long reads on game objects) Niklas Nyland’s “Contemporary War as Entertainment” examines how the 1918 Finnish Civil War was transformed into a contemporaneous historical war game, Punaisten ja valkoisten taistelu Suomessa 1918 🎲 romchip.org/index.php/ro...

🗣️ Pierre-Yves Hurel and Adrian Demleitner interviewed Swiss game dev and demomaker Paolo Baerlocher, creator of Piozone and Alderbaran 🚀🌱 We're dropping this in: FRENCH (original) romchip.org/index.php/ro... ENGLISH (translation) romchip.org/index.php/ro...

💻 ROMchip editor @lainenooney.bsky.social drops Part 1 in a 2-part interview series with narrative designer and former US game journalist @leighalexander.bsky.social in "Actor, Writer, Technology Spirit" ✍️💬 encounter the strange, heady time of 2010s game journalism romchip.org/index.php/ro...

🗾 First up, in our peer reviewed articles, explore how Japanese hobbyists built their own “at-home” superguns from 1980s and 90s magazine articles in Hanae Kramer’s "From Print to Play" ⚡🔫 plus, the author even builds their own! romchip.org/index.php/ro...

📢 TODAY - November 21 @ 2PM ET 📢 ⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 TreaAndrea Russworm talks about what the Black arts tradition can tell us about The Sims, broken systems, and utopian possibilities⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/DDUsvVm 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE

📢 OUR NEXT ROMCHIP TWITCH TALK 📢 JULY 18 @ 1PM ET @sparklebliss.bsky.social presents "Dolly Ludens: American Girl Dolls Playing Games" FREE TIX here bit.ly/44AXuXv JOIN US on TWITCH buff.ly/4hgQtAg 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE

Go deep w/ an new original translation 🗾 @hiroiwasaki.bsky.social's doujinshi Legend 7: Why Do 2D Games Usually Go to the Right? ➡️ translated by @onemillionpower.com and @devilrei.bsky.social. Learn abt Hudson Soft, Menko cards, Mega Man and more thru Iwasaki's POV 👀 romchip.org/index.php/ro...

In Materials section is our 2024 fundraising commission winner @riquesampaio.com.br w/ a wild piece on the historical context of 🚫 Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal in Post-Dictatorship Brazil 😬 Its a game with sex, racism, homophobia and more so why was it sold to kids?! romchip.org/index.php/ro...

🗣️ Pierre-Yves Hurel and Sophie Bemelmans interviewed Swiss game developer Daniel Roux, creator of the Blupi/Eggbert games 🥚 We're dropping this in: FRENCH (original) romchip.org/index.php/ro... ENGLISH (translation) romchip.org/index.php/ro...

Our peer-reviewed article this issue is 📸 SCREENSHOTS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social 📺about the long history of screenshot photography within game culture 🏆 romchip.org/index.php/ro...

Glitzy glittery early donor perks, heading out soon to an Early Donor near you

📣 ROUNDING US OUT @ 10PM 📣 @textfiles.com returns to wind down the stream and tuck us all into bed with Jason Scott's Sleepy Time Cave of Wonders. $20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a voicemail from Jason! JOIN ON TWITCH https://buff.ly/4hgQtAg

LIVE NOW 📣 @colleenmacklin.bsky.social is turning down the lights and turning up the rave--we'll learn how Rez (2001) intersects with their own DJ and music history. ​​$20+ donations = enter a raffle to receive a signed copy of The Metagame! Check it out NOW on our Twitch page! buff.ly/4hgQtAg

📣 THE STUPIDITY CONTINUES TIL 9PM ET📣 @philsalv.bsky.social honks his way through DOOM and Crazy Taxi on the Fisher Price Wonder Tools Cruiser. JOIN ON TWITCH https://buff.ly/4hgQtAg