📢 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
06.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
we got the full schedule out for the ROMchip fundraiser! we definitely need a treat: donate.romchip.org
(and we're almost a $2K in early donor contributions!)
05.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
📢 THIS Friday Feb 6 @ 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.
🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/FOaNknN
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh
04.02.2026 18:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by ROMchipJournal
ROMchip Presents: Cameron Kunzelman on his book Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed
if you missed our talk with @ckunzelman.bsky.social last Friday, you can tuck in to the recording, now up on our YouTube channel!
And support ROMchip if you can! donate.romchip.org
youtu.be/fLYyqzz7NnM
26.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
ROMchipJournal - Twitch
Welcome to the Twitch channel for ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, a free, online scholarly journal for game history. ROMchip develops, edits, and publishes ad-free, open access game history…
🚨🚨🚨 HAPPENING NOW - 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! 📺
23.01.2026 18:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
ROMchipJournal - Twitch
Welcome to the Twitch channel for ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, a free, online scholarly journal for game history. ROMchip develops, edits, and publishes ad-free, open access game history…
🚨🚨🚨 HAPPENING NOW - 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! 📺
23.01.2026 18:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📢 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
23.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
📢 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
21.01.2026 18:02 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
📢 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
21.01.2026 18:02 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
ROMCHIP FUNDRAISER
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).
📣 And it all culminates with the main event
Our 12-HOUR 🎉 ROMchip Fundraiser Stream on Twitch // 🗓️ Saturday Feb 21, 11AM-11PM ET.
🕹️ Join us for 12 hours of streams, guests, raffles, weird games, and general hijinks
💝 Help keep ROMchip open-access & ad-free
💸 donate.romchip.org
19.01.2026 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ROMchip: a Journal of Game Histories
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If you made it to the end of this thread and like what you saw, join us SATURDAY FEB 21 for the 3rd annual ROMchip Fundraiser on Twitch! We'll have fun streams and historical hijinks all day long.
Sign up for our newsletter to stay on top of it: eepurl.com/crCul1
07.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A historical board game map titled Punaisten ja valkoisten taistelu Suomessa 1918 (The Reds and the Whites' Battle in Finland 1918), depicting southern Finland during the Finnish Civil War. The map is marked with a dense network of black lines and nodes representing railways and towns. The southern region is shaded orange to indicate contested territory. Red and white wooden playing pieces are placed across various nodes, symbolizing opposing factions. A white six-sided die lies in the lower left corner.
⚔️ 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 🎲
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07.01.2026 18:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Scan of the Poizone (1991) game floppy disk, showing the contributors, the game title, and the distributor’s logo. (Paolo Baerlocher’s GitHub)
🗣️ 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)
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ENGLISH (translation)
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07.01.2026 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of Alexander’s article “‘Gamers’ Don’t Have to Be Your Audience,” published at Gamasutra (now Game Developer). The article image depicts an angry, screaming white man in a gamer headset. Screenshot sourced using The Wayback Machine, snapshot dated August 28, 2014,
💻 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
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07.01.2026 18:46 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
![Japanese print advertisement. Kyowa International regularly advertised on the rear cover of Technique of Backup magazine. This particular example comes from the March 1989 issue. The fully assembled KIC-045DX supergun cost ¥5,000 ($39) more than the unassembled kit. According to the advertisement, “this kit includes a case with precut holes and assembly instructions. Position the parts, solder the pieces, and tighten the bolts. An optional color VHF video converter [RF modulator] is available for purchase. Assembly time requires approximately two hours. Assembly requires tools such as a soldering iron, nipper, pliers, and multimeter. This project is recommended for people who possess skills in electronics, such as those who may have previously built a transistor radio.” (Courtesy of Sansai Books)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub26wq7eiicsoqjefzqvmzlz/bafkreig4esur2xs6vwo32kaundvivbrxcdguwtzuajfmwc3q2sjgnhnrkm@jpeg)
Japanese print advertisement. Kyowa International regularly advertised on the rear cover of Technique of Backup magazine. This particular example comes from the March 1989 issue. The fully assembled KIC-045DX supergun cost ¥5,000 ($39) more than the unassembled kit. According to the advertisement, “this kit includes a case with precut holes and assembly instructions. Position the parts, solder the pieces, and tighten the bolts. An optional color VHF video converter [RF modulator] is available for purchase. Assembly time requires approximately two hours. Assembly requires tools such as a soldering iron, nipper, pliers, and multimeter. This project is recommended for people who possess skills in electronics, such as those who may have previously built a transistor radio.” (Courtesy of Sansai Books)
🗾 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...
07.01.2026 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
ROMchip
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a platform designed for the advancement of critical historical studies of games.
🎮📜 It's the time of year game history friends!📜🎮
The December 2025 issue of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is HERE! (we're behind on our socials, sry!!)
🕹️📖 www.romchip.org 🌟 get cozy, get reading 📚✨
SUBSCRIBE: eepurl.com/crCul1
DONATE: bit.ly/3ve1oqZ
🧵 below!
07.01.2026 18:42 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
From Print to Play
| ROMchip
Hey, @romchip.bsky.social's December issue is out! And it opens with a really fascinating piece on Japan's arcade scene in the early 80s, and fans building the earliest superguns from DIY plans in a magazine. Worth the read. romchip.org/index.php/ro...
30.12.2025 23:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A list of various arcade adapters with names like "TV Game Controller" and "Power Unit." The list also includes the magazines where their instructions were published.
This is unreal. In this month's @romchip.bsky.social: This author was researching "superguns," unofficial devices used to play arcade games at home
Sooo they built their own, following the instructions from vintage Japanese electronics magazines from the 80s/90s
romchip.org/index.php/ro...
31.12.2025 00:18 — 👍 108 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1
YouTube video by ROMchipJournal
2nd Annual ROMchip Fundraiser 2025, Part 8 of 11 (ft qdot!)
One of the things I had the most fun putting together in 2025 was my @romchip.bsky.social presentation.
@lainenooney.bsky.social asked me for a game to present, said "and someone's doing Rez" in the same sentence.
I panicked, said "Cubivore".
It turned out great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoX1...
31.12.2025 21:00 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
📢 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
21.11.2025 14:45 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
📢 THIS FRIDAY - 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
19.11.2025 15:53 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
📢 NEXT FRIDAY - 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
12.11.2025 14:30 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
論文誌ROMchipに訳出された岩崎著 @hiroiwasaki.bsky.social 『なぜ２Dゲームは右へ進むものが多いのか？』を英語で読む．
日本ではコミケで売られていた同人誌が，学術論文誌と同じ役割を果たしている（ただし査読プロセスは日本にはない）ということを示している．
21.08.2025 05:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for the chance to spread the word about @romchip.bsky.social ! High five to our friends at @stillloadingpodcast.com
06.08.2025 16:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to the @romchip.bsky.social team for the sweet stickers!! Now I have to figure out where to put them.
30.07.2025 14:03 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Teledildonticist, Arctic Fox, Cube
🍑🔌 @buttplug.io
🌐 @good.as.hell.domains
💼 nonpolynomial.com
💵 patreon.com/qdot | ko-fi.com/qdot76367
🐘 buttplug.engineer/@qdot
👾 twitch.tv/qdotfm
💻 github.com/qdot
🎶 last.fm/user/qdot
he/him
art by @gavbat.bsky.social
Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
Game Jammer．Assoc.Professor at Yasuda Women's University since April 2025.
IGDA Japan, HEVGA member. 近刊『ビデオゲームの心理学』『ゲーム障害再考』．ゲーム企業から資金援助は頂いてません
Harold C. Hohbach Curator, Stanford University Libraries, responsible for history of science & technology and film & media collections.
And games.
Jornalista e pesquisador de cultura digital, tecnologia e games 🏳️🌈
Meu livro Primeiro Contato À VENDA no link 👇🏻 📕
https://www.riquesampaio.com.br/
Ouça meus podcasts Primeiro Contato e Código do Caos:
https://linktr.ee/riquesampaio
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
Street View, retro PC/gameconsole hardware hacking, sumo fandom, whisky nerdery, and occasional bits about iOS/Android development. Trans rights are human rights. (he/him)
"My Electronics Therapist" - Kate
Freelance Embedded Systems/Electronics R&D for work.
Hardware hacking for fun
Liker of birbs 🐦⬛
name/he/they 🏳️🌈
@diodes-delight.com
📍Germany, Frankfurt
Publisher at @unwinnable.com | TTRPG history at VintageRPG.com | Co-host of Games People Play on @wfmu.bsky.social | New book with @strangeattractor.bsky.social in 2026? | Links: https://linktr.ee/vintagerpg
Game Dev for 10+ years - Current projects: Size Zero (personal project), principal narrative designer for Don't Nod's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Past: Cibele, Last Call, how do you Do It? etc etc | stream: twitch.tv/ninamarie | games: ninasays.so
Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
I eat tech for breakfast, music for lunch, and games for dinner.
Hardware / software necromancer
collector of Weird Stuff
maker of Death Generators.
she/they
Solo Games Specialist at Leder Games. Classics enthusiast.
Text box, pixels, colors, some words, countless abstractions.
Social media averse designer, papa, and author of Building SimCity.
https://chaim.io
Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu // The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
game designer, programmer
I'm currently working as a lead game designer, lead programmer and producer at a small unity project
💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Professor in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. 🇨🇦 He/him.
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
