🎮📜 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 🧵⬇️
ROMchip ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a platform designed for the advancement of critical historical studies of games.www.romchip.org👾 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...
✍️💬 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...
🕹️🌍 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...
📺👻 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...
🎙️🌅 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...
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