Meet our 2nd Annual Twitch Fundraiser Streamers!
Saturday February 22, 11AM-11PM ET

https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
$20+ donations are automatically entered into a raffle each hour. See our Raffle Rules for more information on the ROMchip Fundraiser Raffle. 

11AM-12PM ET: Jason Scott

 Software Curator @ Internet Archive

Master of Ceremonies Jason Scott will launch the stream with an Internet Archive extravaganza!

$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a copy of The Game that Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry from MIT Press!

12PM-1PM ET: tinahacks

Educator, Speedrunner

tinahacks will do an "All Castles" speedrun of Super Mario World: Super Mario Bros. 4 (1990) on the Super Famicom 

​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a copy of Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer from MIT Press!

1PM-2Pm ET: Sharang Biswas

Game Designer, Writer, Co-Editor of Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games

Sharang will trip down memory lane playing Age of Mythology: Retold (2024)

​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a signed physical copy of the queer RPG Moonlight on Roseville Beach!
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2PM-3PM: Holly Nielsen

Historian, Writer, Game Developer

Holly's playing Dragon Age: Origins (2009), the game that got her into game writing and narrative design before she even knew it was a job! 

​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a copy of Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space from MIT Press!

3PM-4PM ET: merritt k

Writer, LAN Party, Fledgling Manor

merritt's returning to Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002), a 1st/3rd person shooter that's "emblematic of the LAN party era"

​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a sign copy of merritt's book ​LAN Party

4PM-5PM ET: Patrick LeMieux

Professor, Co-author of Metagaming, Game Designer, ​Octopad

Water, Water, Everywhere: An Hour of Aquatic Modular Synth Music Sampling Videogame Soundtracks

Patrick will perform an improvised set of modular synthesizer music featuring samples from the water levels of games like Ecco the Dolphin, Chrono Cross, Mario 64, Abzu, Tetris Effect, Breath of the Wild, Water World, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Donkey Kong Country, Wave Race 64, and Bioshock.

​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to request a specific track!

5PM-6PM ET: Paolo Pedercini

Game Maker, Professor, Curator, Molleindustria

Paolo will attempt a democratically controlled screening of Kinoautomat, the first interactive movie frm 1967.

​​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a copy of Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 from MIT Press!

6PM-7Pm ET: qdot

Engineer, buttplug.io

qdot will be streaming Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest (2002) for GameCube! 

​​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a copy of Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy from MIT Press!

7PM-9PM ET: Phil Salvador

Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation

Phil will bring us TWO HOURS of streaming stupidity on the Fisher Price Wonder Tools Cruiser, a 1990s children's computer gaming peripheral that is somehow simultaneously a car, a cash register, and a telephone. Look forward to a showcase of the peripheral's original games, followed by romps through Doom (1993) and ​Crazy Taxi (2000).

​​$20+ donations during these two hours are entered into a raffle to receive a copy of Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie or Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine , both from MIT Press!

9PM-10PM Colleen Macklin

Professor, Co-Author of Games, Design, and Play, Game Designer, Dear Reader, The Metagame

Colleen is turning down the lights and turning up the rave--we'll learn how Rez (2001) intersects with their own DJ and music history. Special Bonus: an appearance from the Trance Vibrator.

​​$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a signed copy of The Metagame with the Games expansion!

10Pm-11PM ET: Jason Scott

Software Curator @ Internet Archive

Our Master of Ceremonies returns to wind down the stream and tuck us all into bed with Jason Scott's Sleepy Time Cave of Wonders.

$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a voicemail from Jason! 

$100+ donations are automatically entered into a grand prize drawing for a copy of Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership, courtesy MIT Press.

​See our Raffle Rules for more information on the ROMchip Fundraiser Raffle.