Vol. 1 No. 1: July 2019 | ROMchip

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Section of the three-dimensional map of Xeno. Image courtesy Jon Peterson.

Editorial Statement

Introducing ROMchip

What Could the History of Games Be?

Laine Nooney, Raiford Guins, Henry Lowood

Articles

Games Aren't Special

Mia Consalvo
Outside of the Folder, the Box, the Archive

Moving toward a Reparative Video Game History

Whitney Pow
The Triumphal Procession

Soraya Murray
The History of Games Could Be a History of What Play Felt Like

Austin Walker
Other Games, Other Histories

Jodi A Byrd
Cooperative Mode for Amateur and Academic Game Histories

Kevin Driscoll
A History of the Everyday

The Playfulness of Games and the Games That We Play(ed)

Alison Gazzard
The Histories of/in Games

Adam Chapman
New Metaphor for Game History

Nathan Altice
A Path to Our Futures

Mary Flanagan
Video Game History and the Fact of Blackness

TreaAndrea M Russworm
The History of Games Could Be a History of Technology

Seth Giddings
Analog Game History

Notes for a Discipline in the Making

Marco Arnaudo
Video Game History Beyond Video Games

A Curator’s Appeal

Alana Staiti
Game History as Public Debate

Patrick Harrigan
The Games We Didn’t Predict

Jesper Juul
Toward a History that Examines Games as ‘Social Engineering’

Katherine Isbister
Last but Not Least?

Maria B Garda

Interviews

Tom Kalinske

Playful Pioneer

Ken S McAllister, Judd Ruggill
Of Showmen and Seasides

A Conversation with Arcade Historian Alan Meades

Carly Kocurek

Materials

“I Incite This Meeting to Rebellion”

Radical Feminism and Police Violence in the Early 1900s Board Game Suffragetto

Renee Shelby
Per Aspera Ad Astra

The Material Culture of Early Space Empire Games

Jon Peterson