About the Journal
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a hybrid audience, open-access journal for the advancement of critical historical studies of games, broadly imagined across a variety of fields, disciplines, and professions. It supports any discipline of work enlivening the history of games in local and global contexts, and embraces diversity in how game history is studied, documented, collected, preserved, and practiced. ROMchip is where the history of games is taken seriously.
Publishing works in the form of scholarly articles, transcripts of oral histories and interviews, as well as translations and object lessons essays devoted to game-related artifacts, ROMchip is committed to both theoretically and empirically informed historiography as well as rigorous research methods. Our content actively appeals to scholars, critics, journalists, enthusiasts, archivists, and students across a wide range of fields such as, but not limited to, cultural history, design studies and history, game studies, history of computing, history of science and technology, material culture studies, media studies, museum studies, and science and technology studies.
ROMchip does not apply any charges or fees (including Article Processing Charges) pertaining to publication, distribution, or access. Authors maintain copyright to their work. Access to all material published at ROMchip is free and without restrictions, no registration is necessary.
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PUBLISHER AND FISCAL SPONSOR
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is self-published by ROMchip LLC and is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499). All donations are tax deductible. Hack Club oversees and audits all revenue drawn from this account, ensuring that journal finances meet with the appropriate standards for tax-deductible status. ROMchip LLC is owned by members of the Editorial Group, and can be contacted at 767 Broadway, #1102, New York, NY 10003.
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As a self-published journal that generates no income, donations help ROMchip pay our operating costs while keeping all of the valuable work published here free and open to the public. Our base expenses include copyediting fees, hosting fees, and fees and services related to maintaining ROMchip as a fiscal entity. Anything raised beyond our base operating costs help fund translations, commission new work, pay graduate students assistants, and improve functionality on our website.
Initial development costs for website design were funded by The School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Previous financial support has been provided by the Indiana University School of Media and The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.