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Shinji R. Yamane @shinjiyamane.bsky.social · Aug 21

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．

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

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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Cover of なぜ２Dゲームは右へ進むものが多いのか?, known in English as Legend 7: Why Do 2D Games Usually Go to the Right?, by Hiromasa Iwasaki (Image courtesy of cover artist, Hiroshi Aizawa). Cover features drawings of Luigi, Mario, and Toad running to the right, which right-facing arrow behind them.

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

Thanks for the chance to spread the word about @romchip.bsky.social ! High five to our friends at @stillloadingpodcast.com

Josh | Still Loading Podcast @stillloadingpodcast.com · Aug 3

NEW EPISODE! I'm joined by @lainenooney.bsky.social to talk all about their work at @romchip.bsky.social!

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · Jul 30

Thanks to the @romchip.bsky.social team for the sweet stickers!! Now I have to figure out where to put them.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excited to listen to this, Carly is one of the most interesting scholars working in game studies.

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 21

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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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 21

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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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 18

📢 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🎎

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 18

📢 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🎎

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 16

📢 THIS FRIDAY - July 18 @ 1PM ET 📢

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 10

📢 NEXT FRIDAY - July 18 @ 1PM ET 📢

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Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social · Jul 9

Come say hi! Or watch silently! Honestly either is fine.

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

📢 OUR NEXT ROMCHIP TWITCH TALK 📢
JULY 18 @ 1PM ET

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

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An American Girl doll styled in 1980s fashion—denim skirt, pink tights, side ponytail, colorful bracelets, and headphones—stands in front of a yellow Pac-Man arcade cabinet in a neon-lit arcade. She holds a pink Walkman cassette player.

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Dr. José Zagal @jzagal.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 4

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sadly So we don't format into PDFs (there's just one or two people who do all the production, unpaid, so we try to keep that work load as minimal as possible). But you could probably just print to PDF for the individual articles you want to read?

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Rique Sampaio | Meu livro Primeiro Contato já à venda! 📕 @riquesampaio.com.br · Jul 3

É muito maluco que, pra gente poder fazer esse tipo de análise cruzando nossa história com tecnologia, cultura e política, a gente precise de um fundo e um apoio internacional. Mais maluco ainda é que os EUA hoje lidam com o tipo de autoritarismo e perseguição que eu trato no meu artigo.

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

In Materials section is our 2024 fundraising commission winner @riquesampaio.com.br w/ a wild piece on the historical context of 🚫 Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal in Post-Dictatorship Brazil 😬 Its a game with sex, racism, homophobia and more so why was it sold to kids?!

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PC Multimídia magazine, containing two CD-ROMs: one with the game Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal (ATR Multimídia, 1995), prominently featured on the magazine cover, and another with the game Betrayal at Krondor (Dynamix, 1993) along with demo versions of other games, including children’s games (Courtesy of Leandro Matioli)

Screenshot of where players start in Casseta & Planeta, in the teen-aged protagonist's bedroom. It has orange walls and is full of electronics, a computer, a surfboard, and a poster of a topless model.

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

📢 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

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

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 👀

romchip.org/index.php/ro...

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

In Materials section is our 2024 fundraising commission winner @riquesampaio.com.br w/ a wild piece on the historical context of 🚫 Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal in Post-Dictatorship Brazil 😬 Its a game with sex, racism, homophobia and more so why was it sold to kids?!

romchip.org/index.php/ro...

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

🗣️ Pierre-Yves Hurel and Sophie Bemelmans interviewed Swiss game developer Daniel Roux, creator of the Blupi/Eggbert games 🥚 We're dropping this in:

FRENCH (original)
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ENGLISH (translation)
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Menu principal du jeu Blupi is Back (2024), disponible sur Android et Windows. https://www.maniabricks.com/games/blupi-is-back/

Main menu of Blupi Is Back (2024), a video game available for Android and Windows. https://www.maniabricks.com/games/blupi-is-back)

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

Our peer-reviewed article this issue is 📸 SCREENSHOTS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social 📺about the long history of screenshot photography within game culture 🏆
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a photograph of a long-haired child, standing next to their TV, which displays the end screen of a video game

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

🎮📜 It’s that time of year game history friends! 📜🎮

The July 2025 issue of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is HERE! 🕹️📖 www.romchip.org 🌟 get cozy, get reading 📚✨

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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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Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social · Jul 2

The new issue of @romchip.bsky.social is out, and includes new work by me on the history of video game screenshots and the way we photographed our game screens to capture images of ourselves: romchip.org/index.php/ro...

The rest of the issue is fantastic, check it out!

A screen photograph of the game Paperboy (1985).

A photograph of a young girl in front of the end screen for Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988).

A photograph of a television and its domestic context, with the TV showing the end screen of Contra (1987).

A screenshot showing a raiding guild after defeating Ragnaros in the Molten Core raid dungeon of World of Warcraft (2004).

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Rique Sampaio | Meu livro Primeiro Contato já à venda! 📕 @riquesampaio.com.br · Jul 2

Eu tive o privilégio de ser selecionado e remunerado com este fundo por um artigo que escrevi para o @romchip.bsky.social, que acabou de ser publicado! Oportunidades como essa são praticamente inexistentes no Brasil.

Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · Jun 13

really happy to finally get this out in the world: @romchip.bsky.social is finally launching it's FREELANCER FUND. This initiative is designed to PAY FOR original work by journalists, public historians, & others who work on a contract/freelance basis.

Read more: donate.romchip.org/freelancer-f...

Freelancer Fund

We are now accepting freelance pitches on a rolling basis for our Interviews , Materials , and Translations sections. This initiative is designed to support original work by independent researchers,.....

donate.romchip.org

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · Jul 2

The latest @romchip.bsky.social journal is out, and has a great article from @riquesampaio.com.br that combines CD-ROM magazines, military dictatorship, 1970's pornography, TV comedy & Brazil's video game history: romchip.org/index.php/ro...

All in English, thanks to ROMchip’s fundraiser donors! ❤️

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Rique Sampaio | Meu livro Primeiro Contato já à venda! 📕 @riquesampaio.com.br · Jul 1

O artigo também está disponível em português no meu livro Primeiro Contato: Como os computadores e games entraram nos lares dos brasileiros, que traz muitas outras histórias e investigações envolvendo cultura, política e tecnologia brasileira.

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Livro Primeiro Contato

Envio em até 3 dias após a compraPrimeiro Contato é o resultado de uma investigação jornalística sobre a história da informática e dos videogames no Brasil, desde os tempos da reserva de mercado até o...

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Rique Sampaio | Meu livro Primeiro Contato já à venda! 📕 @riquesampaio.com.br · Jul 1

O vídeo acima é uma versão ultra resumida do artigo de capa que escrevi para a publicação norte-americana acadêmica @romchip.bsky.social, que acabou de sair! Sim, apresentei para o resto do mundo pornochanchada, É o Tchan, Tiazinha, banheira do Gugu e Casseta & Planeta rs
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Between Mass Culture and Technological Improvisation | ROMchip

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