ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories

Hello Bluesky! We're thrilled to introduce ourselves as ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories. We develop, edit, & publish ad-free, open access game history research for a range of audiences. We're anti-paywall, anti-gatekeeping, reader funded. Read, Like, Subscribe. romchip.org

📰 Last month the University of Sydney announced the launch of Ludolio, a gaming platform allowing academic libraries to lend video games to students. 🕹️ Check it out! www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

Did you know that @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social has a podcast?🎤 Last month they spoke with Amy Thomas about the complexities of EULAs, shedding light on ongoing dramas surrounding video game ownership.📜 Listen in!🎧

🚨 Our next ROMchip Presents Twitch talk is in 1 hour!🚨 Come hear Julien Mailland talk about the geopolitical and legal history of Tetris! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

⏰️ There's still time to get your ticket for the next 📣 ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 with Julien Mailland about his new book "Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values". 📗 TUESDAY October 6 @ 7PM EST. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

Remember to grab a ticket for the next 📣 ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 with Julien Mailland about his new book "Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values". 📘 TUESDAY October 6 @ 7PM EST. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Julien Mailland on his new book Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values 🖥️☭⚒️🧩 TUESDAY October 6 @ 7PM. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

Congratulations on this milestone and the exciting work to come!🥳🎉

I really enjoyed Michael John Hughes's history of John Holstrom's videogame comics, published in ROMchip - @romchip.bsky.social This is an article I considered writing at one point and would definitely not have done so well. romchip.org/index.php/ro...

Dolly Parton's larger than life footprint even extended to games: she had her own Bally pinball machine produced in 1979, featuring her likeness on the playfield and backglass.

in case anyone is looking for updates on The Hat Wars: TWO WORDS: 28 ONE WORD: 19 wanna weigh in? romchip-a-journal-of-game-histories-shop.fourthwall.com

The Video Game History Foundation (@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social) is dropping a gift to us all with this massive new collection of E3 materials!

this is a really cool and really important piece as chinese games have started to enter western gaming culture in the last few years almost entirely removed from historical industrial context.

Lastest @romchip.bsky.social has a really interesting article on Chinese game history, giving an overview + a feminist perspective: romchip.org/index.php/ro... It's great to get articles in English from outside the usual US-center perspective & its citations are a great source for further reading!

starting so soon! Join us at 7PM ET for a talk by @pdmcdonald.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

Coming up this eve at 7 pm ET, @pdmcdonald.bsky.social on the @romchip.bsky.social Twitch channel to discuss his excellent new book The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play (published by @uminnpress.bsky.social).

it'll be a grand ol' time! we're excited to be hosting @pdmcdonald.bsky.social and can't wait to see you all in the chat!

Tomorrow night at 7PM Eastern!

Upcoming July 15-16: our friends at @analoggamestudies.bsky.social are collabing with Game in Lab to host the Generation Analog 2026 conference abt tabletop games and education. The theme this year is GREEN! Online event, free and open to the public! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

🚨🚨🚨 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).

📣 Don't forget! In less than 1 week 📆 we're hosting @pdmcdonald.bsky.social for a talk 💬 about the managerial origins 📈 of and influences on game design! More info below 😊

any leads out there?

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?

ROMchip is hosting free, online talk about my new book The Impossible Reversal. I'm going to talk about how games came to be designed objects in the 1950s, and some early management simulation games played on IBM mainframes! Find out more at: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

Cool to see, and a nice write up on the history of the franchise I work on. FIFA 23 was my first shipped AAA title, the thirtieth FIFA, and the last FIFA, all in one.

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...

our friends @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social comin' in hot on what the the ESA should be doing as the game preservation crisis accelerates: "Everyone agrees this is a serious problem but the ESA has repeatedly opposed the efforts of cultural heritage institutions to reform digital copy protection laws."

oh perfect timing, guess what just came in from @romchip.bsky.social! What a comfy and categorically correct hat