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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.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a platform designed for the advancement of critical historical studies of games.
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🚨🚨🚨 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! 📺
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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…
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January 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM
🚨🚨🚨 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! 📺
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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…
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January 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM
📢 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
January 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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📢 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
January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
📢 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
January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Dear Friends!

📣 ROMchip Fundraiser Season IS HERE 💸 Join kick off THIS Friday // Jan 23 @ 2pm ET w/ a talk by @ckunzelman.bsky.social on his new book 📕Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin’s Creed 🗡️History! Conspiracy! Guys on rooftops!

Live on Twitch, tix here
www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...
Select Tickets – ROMchip Presents: Cameron Kunzelman on his book Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed – Twitch
ROMchip Presents: Cameron Kunzelman on his book Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed – Twitch, Fri Jan 23, 2026 - **Tickets serve as calendar reminders for the event; they are not required to ...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:43 PM
🎮📜 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

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ROMchip
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a platform designed for the advancement of critical historical studies of games.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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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...
From Print to Play | ROMchip
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December 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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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

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December 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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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...
2nd Annual ROMchip Fundraiser 2025, Part 8 of 11 (ft qdot!)
YouTube video by ROMchipJournal
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December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
📢 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
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📢 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
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
📢 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
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📆 SAVE THE DATE 📆 the next ROMCHIP TWITCH TALK is FRIDAY NOV 21 @ 2PM ET

ft. TreaAndrea Russworm

presenting UTOPIAN FUNK: PLAYING AND BREAKING THE SIMS IN DARK TIMES 💻🛠️

more info and tix:
www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...
Select tickets – ROMchip Presents: TreaAndrea M. Russworm on "Utopian Funk: Playing and Breaking The Sims in Dark Times" – Twitch
ROMchip Presents: TreaAndrea M. Russworm on "Utopian Funk: Playing and Breaking The Sims in Dark Times" – Twitch, Fri Nov 21, 2025 - Join us Friday, November 21st, as ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histor...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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.
Go deep w/ an new original translation 🗾 @hiroiwasaki.bsky.social's doujinshi Legend 7: Why Do 2D Games Usually Go to the Right? ➡️ translated by @onemillionpower.com and @devilrei.bsky.social. Learn abt Hudson Soft, Menko cards, Mega Man and more thru Iwasaki's POV 👀

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August 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Thanks for the chance to spread the word about @romchip.bsky.social ! High five to our friends at @stillloadingpodcast.com
NEW EPISODE! I'm joined by @lainenooney.bsky.social to talk all about their work at @romchip.bsky.social!

Listen here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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August 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Thanks to the @romchip.bsky.social team for the sweet stickers!! Now I have to figure out where to put them.
July 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Excited to listen to this, Carly is one of the most interesting scholars working in game studies.
July 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you missed last week's talk from @sparklebliss.bsky.social abt AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS and the games they play, you catch it now on our YouTube 🤗

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ROMchip Presents: Carly A. Kocurek on Dolly Ludens: American Girl Dolls Playing Games
YouTube video by ROMchipJournal
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July 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
📢 HAPPENING NOW - July 18 @ 1PM ET 📢

🎎@sparklebliss.bsky.social talks about American Girl Dolls, their miniature toys, and what dolls can teach us about girlhood in America🎎

📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk!📺

💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE:
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July 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📢 THIS AFTERNOON @ 1PM ET 📢

🎎@sparklebliss.bsky.social talks about American Girl Dolls, their miniature toys, and what dolls can teach us about girlhood in America🎎

📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal at 1 to join the talk!📺

💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE
July 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📢 THIS FRIDAY - July 18 @ 1PM ET 📢

🎎@sparklebliss.bsky.social talks about American Girl Dolls, their miniature toys, and what dolls can teach us about girlhood in America🎎

🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/VwvldET

💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE
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July 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📢 NEXT FRIDAY - July 18 @ 1PM ET 📢

🎎@sparklebliss.bsky.social talks about American Girl Dolls, their miniature toys, and what dolls can teach us about girlhood in America🎎

🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/VwvldET

💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE
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July 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Come say hi! Or watch silently! Honestly either is fine.
📢 OUR NEXT ROMCHIP TWITCH TALK 📢
JULY 18 @ 1PM ET

@sparklebliss.bsky.social presents "Dolly Ludens: American Girl Dolls Playing Games"

FREE TIX here bit.ly/44AXuXv
JOIN US on TWITCH buff.ly/4hgQtAg

💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE
July 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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ROMChip shout out/sighting at #DiGRA25! This was in the context of a fascinating talk on "Diode Games" (early hobbyist electronic games) easychair.org/smart-progra... @romchip.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM