@romchip
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org GET OUR NEWSLETTER: http://eepurl.com/crCul1 Editors: @lainenooney.bsky.social @daveparisi.bsky.social @liebenwalde.bsky.social Soraya Murray
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
also @robdubbin.bsky.social is in twitch right now making a ZZT game with the chat and its the cutest thing every WHY ARENT YOU WATCHING:
www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
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.
in 15 mintues we've got @halfrobot.com streaming cult disaster Cosmology at Kyoto #cosmologyatkyoto join us!
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ROMchip's annual fundraiser stream has just started! 🙌🎉✨
Please join us and support the journal if you can. There's an incredible schedule of wonderful streamers and games! 🦑✨
I'll be on at 7 PM ET to talk shamelessly about my love of Smash Bros. Melee! 🖤🖤🖤
Hey! At 1PM PST/4PM EST I'm playing a modular synth set focusing on house music and samples of home themes for the @romchip.bsky.social fundraiser!
Learn more at donate.romchip.org and watch the stream (live now) at www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
We're starting our 3rd annual fundraiser momentarily -- join us!
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We're 25 minutes from our opening ceremony!
54%!
ROMchip is an excellent journal that does the impressive & challenging work of documenting game histories!
Check our there fundraising livestream this weekend (featuring my department-chair, ooh!)
On Saturday at 3 PM ET I'm going to be streaming a game I haven't thoroughly played since the mid-90s -- Cosmology of Kyoto, the early game that blew Roger Ebert's mind with the possibilities of an "open world." Also you can get molten metal poured into your ass and out of your mouth! Be there.
absolutely STACKED lineup
Watched and contributed last year. Looking forward to this one. Just look at this schedule!
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
Reminder that ROMchip is doing a fundraiser this week:
donate.romchip.org/2026-schedul...
Lots of fun streams, from playing Cosmology of Kyoto to designing a ZZT game live with chat
RISE OF THE DRAGON is one of those games that while being simultaneously SUPER DERIVITIVE & SUPER RACIST had a lasting impact on me. It's a staggering adventure game that I constantly reference. You should absolutely tune into this and consider kicking in to support @romchip.bsky.social if you can.
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...
🚨🚨🚨 HAPPENING NOW - 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! 📺
This seems intriguing to me as someone who’s wondered before about the kinds of physical metaphors we see used in video game design. Investigating their literal physics is one way of exploring that.
📢 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
📢 THIS Friday Feb 13 @ 2pm ET 📢
⚽🔁🎾 Carlin Wing talks bouncing balls across games, sports, and science––showing how bounce links physics, animation, and computing across history.
🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/2PcJIwV
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh
🚨🚨🚨 HAPPENING NOW - 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! 📺
📢 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
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!)
📢 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
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
