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

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Carolyn Rauch event ephemera collection also has photos of E3... including this gallery of 1600+ publicity photos from E3 2009. (Yes, really. 1600 photos.) archive.gamehistory.org/item/bcd920e...

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.

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 2w ago

👾 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 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 🧵⬇️

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

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 🎲 Talk Title: "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of Management" 📈 TUESDAY July 14 @ 7PM. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

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).

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 3w ago

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!

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!

Peter McDonald@pdmcdonald.bsky.social · 3w ago

Come and join me tonight as I talk about The Impossible Reversal and the origins of game design in management training. ROMchip will be hosting me for a talk on their twitch channel with a Q&A afterwards! 7pm ET, and more info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

Tomorrow night at 7PM Eastern!

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 🎲 Talk Title: "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of Management" 📈 TUESDAY July 14 @ 7PM. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

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).

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · last mo.

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?

📣 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 😊

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 🎲 Talk Title: "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of Management" 📈 TUESDAY July 14 @ 7PM. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

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

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · last mo.

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?

any leads out there?

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · last mo.

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?

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...

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 🎲 Talk Title: "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of Management" 📈 TUESDAY July 14 @ 7PM. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: 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.

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · last mo.

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...

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."

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · last mo.

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

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

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!

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 🎲 Talk Title: "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of Management" 📈 TUESDAY July 14 @ 7PM. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 🎲 Talk Title: "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of Management" 📈 TUESDAY July 14 @ 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 · 3mo ago

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)

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)

thanks to the @romchip.bsky.social stream chat for collaborating with me on this hourlong ZZT creation, in which you upstage dan rather at conveyor-belt sushi. here it is in its entirety.

we've got @kendraserra.bsky.social on in mere moment to flail their way through survival mode of The Long Dark. join, watch, laugh, donate: www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

Kendra Albert@kendraserra.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just half an hour to go until my @romchip.bsky.social stream and right now it looks like I'm going to get to play the current version of The Long Dark! But if you donate now, you can make my life harder and change that! donate.romchip.org

We’re $2K short of our Tier 1 goal w/ 3 hours left. Final boss energy activated. ROMchip is 100% reader-funded. No paywalls. No ads. If we hit this goal, we fund the journal for another year. JOIN US: www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal If 100 folks give $20 we’re there. If you can’t give, BOOST.

Our friends at @romchip.bsky.social are hosting an all-day stream to raise money for their video game history journal! Lots of great content over the next 7 hours. Hang out with us! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

Up now: Todd Anderson, tapping in for the OG Magic computer game experience, Magic: The Gathering (Microprose, 1997). Hourly Raffle: Copies of Jon Peterson's Playing at the World, Volumes 1 + 2, courtesy MIT Press!! Donate for a chance to win.

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

We're starting our 3rd annual fundraiser momentarily -- join us! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

in 15 mintues we've got @halfrobot.com streaming cult disaster Cosmology at Kyoto #cosmologyatkyoto join us! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

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

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