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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 6h

Cameron’s work involves sci-fi, games, and the broader philosophical impacts that they have on our lives. ckunzelman.com 🤖 Javon’s interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of Black Joy and gaming culture. jstonee.wordpress.com 🕹️

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 6h

📣This just in: Cameron Kunzelman @ckunzelman.bsky.social and Javon Goard @javonontheprogram.bsky.social will be joining us for ROMchip's 4th Annual Twitch Fundraiser, on March 13th, 2027.🎉 Join our newsletter📨 to stay up-to-date! eepurl.com/crCul1

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 11h

⏰️ 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...

Book cover of Soviet Blocks. Tetris block piece fall into the shape of an american flag.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our pleasure @philsalv.bsky.social ! Everyone can be cool like Phil too with your own ROMchip videogames/video games hat romchip-a-journal-of-game-histories-shop.fourthwall.com/en-usd

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📣 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...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can find John @johnromero.bsky.social and his equally talented partner Brenda’s @brendaromero.bsky.social industry and academic contributions on their studio’s website here: romero.com/bios

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Need more reasons to 🗓️save-the-date on ROMchip's March 13th, 2027 fundraiser?🤔 We'll be hosting id Software co-founder and Doom legend ✨️extraordinaire✨️ John Romero for an hour of Quake!

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bhernardo Viana @bhernardoviana.bsky.social is a has been working in the game and entertainment media space since 2015. Other examples of their work can be found on their website: bhernardoviana.com/writing-port...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

THROWBACK THURSDAY↩️: Did you know we’re multilingual?🤯 In our December 2019 issue, Bhernardo Henrique Viana translated the editorial introduction of the journal into Portuguese!🇵🇹🇧🇷 romchip.org/index.php/ro...

Webpage header introducing a ROMchip article in Portuguese, showing a patent-style schematic of a coin-operated game cabinet at left and a translator's note with author credits and Portuguese text on the right.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social is a game arts instructor at Pratt Institute, who’s work can be found here: everest-pipkin.com Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social is a long-time game journalist turned who has been the editorial director at Digital Eclipse since 2020. chriskohler.biz/about-chris/

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

IT'S OFFICIAL: ROMchip's 4TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISER is set for Saturday, March 13th, 2027!🎉 To celebrate, we're dropping the names of our first two streamers: Everest Pipkin and Chris Kohler! Mark your calendars and join our newsletter to get all the updates📰: eepurl.com/crCul1

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Will Partin: scholar.google.cat/citations?us... Iris Bull: irisbull.com/page-archive...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

THROWBACK THURSDAY↩️: Will Partin & Iris Bull intro our July 2021 special issue on Esports Histories. "A history of esports can be an examination of many things: a history of work, of play, of data usage [...] of race, of gender, of game publishing [...] and more" romchip.org/index.php/ro...

Masthead Screenshot of URL: https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/146
Text: What is Esports History a History Of? An Introduction to the Special Issue. William Clyde Partin III (Data & Society) and Iris Bull (Indiana University).

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Nicolas Labarre @labarren.cpesr.fr · 05/09/2026

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...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

More of Nathan’s work can be found on their google scholar page: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

THROWBACK THURSDAY↩️ from our very first issue July '19: “Game history becomes the story of evolving progeny, each child more capable than its parent.” -Nathan Altice riffs on the knowledge creators and players bring to game history. romchip.org/index.php/ro...

New Metaphor for Game History
Nathan Altice (University of California, Santa Cruz)
History is indelibly bound to metaphor. Arrows and arcs, foundations and ruptures, trees and roots, currents and courses—these poetic juxtapositions give structure to the intractable chaos of lived experience. We speak and think their shapes into being, and those shapes, in turn, guide our understanding. Some slip away, bound to the times and thoughts that first gave them life. Others reify into doctrine. What once was allusive or evocative becomes dogmatic.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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.

Vintage promotional image for the Dolly Parton pinball machine. Dolly Parton, wearing a burgundy pantsuit, stands beside the machine and gestures toward it against a starry blue background. Text reads, “Presenting Dolly” and “Making her pinball debut with Bally.”

Close-up of a brightly colored Dolly Parton pinball playfield, featuring illustrated portraits of Dolly, record-shaped targets, musical-note graphics, bumpers, ramps, and red, pink, turquoise, and gold decorative elements.

Full view of a vintage Dolly Parton pinball machine in a workshop or restoration space. The illuminated playfield and backglass feature colorful Dolly Parton artwork, with the cabinet decorated in pink, blue, and cream graphics.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes! Check them here: romchip-a-journal-of-game-histories-shop.fourthwall.com (and subscribe to our newsletter for future drops of game history and hats!)

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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rian c. johnson @riancj.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you enjoyed this thread, consider subscribing to ROMchip! Every article we publish is free to read, & our work is made possible by a community that believes game history deserves an open-access home. 📬 Newsletter: eepurl.com/crCul1 💖 Support ROMchip: bit.ly/4wmQqKC See you next issue! 🎮📚

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🎙️🌅 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...

A low resolution black and white image of trees against a night sky.
Caption: Screenshot from Night Journey, Bill Viola and USC Game Innovation Lab, released 2007–18, PC game (Ziteo Ye, host, Sunset Sway, podcast, episode 57, “Interweaving of Experimental Games,” June 24, 2024, show notes, https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/666c23cbc26e396a36cd3e59) (Courtesy of Sunset Sway)

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📺👻 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...

Screenshot from the Video Game History Foundation’s documentary The Secrets of Sega Channel, showing a Sega Channel adapter cartridge. The adapter’s characteristic threaded coaxial port, visible at the top left, created the physical join that bridged the Sega Genesis console to the cable television network; the running figure on the cartridge label was the service’s in-house mascot. (Don’t Just Watch TV: The Secrets of Sega Channel, posted December 15, 2025, by the Video Game History Foundation, YouTube, 58 min., 8 sec., https://youtu.be/CWCUmTTVjMY) (Courtesy of the Video Game History Foundation)

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🕹️🌍 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...

A clipping from the publication L’est Vaudois, featuring 2 columns of news reporting and photos of two older white men in suits.

Caption: Brief news item announcing the imminent organization of an Atari congress in Villars (Switzerland) in 1983, attended by Yves Greppin and Claude Nobs for European coordination, alongside Raymond Kassar (then CEO of Atari) and Anton Bruehl (president of Atari International). (Jean‑Charles Kollros, “Important congrès international dès dimanche dans la station,” L’est Vaudois, March 10, 1983, 9, https://www.scriptorium.ch/zoom/231050/view?page=9&p=separate&search=greppin%20AND%20atari%20AND%20nobs&hlid=399723743&tool=search&view=0,1617,2724,1423.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

✍️💬 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...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

👾 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...

A collage cut out of a magazine featuring 7 Chinese women alongside an image of Lara Croft. Caption: Members of the feminist collective at Xintiandi company, helping organize the 1998–1999 “China’s Lara” model contest with PopSoft. (Shengtie, “A New World for Feminism: Girls and their Lara” [in Chinese], PopSoft 4b [2000]: 70)

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🎮📜 A new issue of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is here! 📜🎮 This summer we're traveling from 1980s China to the 1990s cable wars, with stops in Switzerland and the UK along the way! 🕹️📖 www.romchip.org 🌟 Get cozy. Get reading. SUBSCRIBE: eepurl.com/crCul1 DONATE: bit.ly/4wmQqKC 🧵⬇️

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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!

Old photo showing members of the feminist collective at Xintiandi company, helping organize the 1998–1999 “China’s Lara” model contest with PopSoft.

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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).

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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!

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🚨🚨🚨 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).

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

📣 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 😊

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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Found in the classifieds section of The Advocate across a few issues from 1983 if that helps @romchip.bsky.social @textfiles.com @lainenooney.bsky.social

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

any leads out there?

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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?

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Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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...

An image of Top Management Decision Simulation, a game from 1957. A game facilitator enters information into an IBM Type 553 card-read punch in the background while another facilitator reads a printout from an IBM 407 printer.

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Eric Stein (he/him) @steinea.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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...

picture of game boxes and merchandise of the 4 2026 inductees

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

amazing vibe, amazing look! ❤️ go go videogames!

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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."

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solon's haunted library @chorby.org · 28/06/2026

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

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

we got our next ROMchip Presents Twitch talk lined up. Come hear Peter McDonald talk about his new book The Impossible Reversal and game design's indebtedness to management thinking!

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