ROMchip is where the history of games is taken seriously.

ROMchip provides an online, open access, hybrid audience venue for advancing the historical study of games, whether analog or digital, sport or play, tabletop or online.

For ROMchip’s first five operating years, we were lucky to be supported by some of our editors' home universities. However, as administrative priorities change, university support is increasingly unreliable. Universities also have many spending limitations, making it hard to use our funds in the ways we think are most effective.

This is why we are coming to you. December 2023 marked our final semester of university-sponsored funding. Going forward, we believe we can grow more and go farther with the support of the very same people who read our journal and love our mission. And our first fundraiser proved us right: we raised 97% of our 3rd Tier, $10K goal. Let's do it again.

Our funding tiers reflect the scalable goals we have at ROMchip.

TIER 1: $7,000

Our Tier 1 goal of $7000 allows us to keep doing what we do best: soliciting, reviewing, editing, and publishing the best original historical content we can find. This money covers all of our standard operating expenses: platform fees, business, compliance, and administrative costs, as well as our biggest single expense: our incredible, hardworking copy editor, Mary💐 It will also help us start saving some money toward an eventual website upgrade

TIER 2: $9,000

Our Tier 2 goal of $9000 covers all of our basic expenses while supporting us in taking on new challenges. Once we break Tier 1, we'll inaugurate the ROMchip Freelancer Fund: a pool of money we can use to pay professional freelancers (and not just academics) to write for us. Every dollar we raise toward Tier 2 goes right into the pockets of hardworking writers.

TIER 3: $11,000

Our Tier 3 goal of $11,000 covers all of our basic expenses and allows us to stretch farther than ever before. We’ll be able to expand the ROMchip Freelancer Fund, while also supporting another year of our super popular "ROMchip Presents" Twitch Talks, where we host researchers actively writing and publishing game history (check out some of last year's on our YouTube!). Raising this much money will also help us move forward faster with spiffing up our website. 

LOST LEVELS...

Do more tiers await? Are there secrets yet to be found? The faster we meet our Tier 1 goal, the sooner you will find out!