Great schedule of speakers at this fundraiser for #ROMChip on Feb 22:
https://donate.romchip.org/schedule.html.

My highlights:
- screening of Kinoautomat w/ @molleindustria
- @HollyNielsen playing Dragon Age: Origins and talking about narrative design (and hopefully history?)
- @colleenmacklin rave up with Rez!

New issue of #ROMchip is out!

Vol. 6 No. 1: July 2024

https://www.romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/issue/view/13

#GameStudies #GameHistory

Very interesting (and exhaustive) game studies–article on Egyptian and Greek board games and their role in 5th ct. BCE Greek philosophy—even if Pizelo goes somewhat overboard in their game-based interpretation of Plato’s Republic :)

https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/196

“Philosophy is an Egyptian Game: How Ancient Game Logics Structure our Present” by Samuel Pizelo

#GameStudies #Philosophy #ROMchip

romchip.org: Battling Entropy In Restoring Arcade Machines
From the article, a photo of the inside of an original Pac-Man game. The insides of most arcade games are usually a stark contrast to their externals, even upon release, but time is often unkind to them.

I've been working on diversifying our link game a bit, so here's a mor
https://setsideb.com/romchip-org-battling-entropy-in-restoring-arcade-machines/
#niche #retro #arcade #coinop #entropy #niche #preservation #retro #romchip

The excellent #ROMchip journal has published a new issue this Summer on maintenance and repairability: https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal

From the editorial: "The time is right for a change; game studies must contend critically and directly with maintenance and repair. The field does a disservice to scholars and members of the video game community alike as long as it continues to succumb to these practices’ perceived mundanity and opacity."

#GameStudies #GameHistory #VideoGames

Oh! They just released the first issue of #ROMchip, a brand new academic journal of game history

give it a read, it's free!
http://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal