If you’re interested in gaming history, sign up for the mailing list for ROMchip, a new online scholarly journal. ROMchip is spearheaded by three historians who absolutely know their stuff, including Raiford Guins, author of Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife; and Laine Nooney, who is currently writing the business history of Sierra On-Line.
It’s exciting to see focused, scholarly, researched attention in this area, especially given how unorganized and flawed popular gaming history often is.
I hope that the journal will focus not just on the big marquee names but
the stories and experiences often left out of informal gaming canons –
the garage developers, the companies that didn’t make it past one or two
games, and the unexamined bulk of games that provide the mortar for gaming history.
So if you want to read up when the journal launches next year, sign up!
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