GamesYouLoved - Promoting Retrogaming around the world!

Promoting retrogames and nostalgia. GamesYouLoved

For over 13 years we have proudly been part of the ever growing retrogaming community.

Playing our part in delivering regular daily content across our social channels, sharing others and promoting anything worthwhile retrogaming related. Our next stage in the journey has just begun where our dedicated team will be actively promoting and marketing events, hardware products, game software and pretty much anything that is relevant to kids and adults alike.

This will be community based marketing with a difference. 

Our approach

Founded by community members, with years of experience across the team, we have the added bonus of being one of the largest Retrogaming communities in the world, ready to engage with fans for client campaigns. 

Our own channels: 

X https://x.com/gamesyouloved

TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@gamesyoulovedofficial

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gamesyouloved

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/gamesyouloved

Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/gamesyouloved

In addition to over 240,000 followers ourselves with an authentic network in videogames, we have a huge range of community partners and creators to call upon worldwide. We have over 10 years of experience in delivering successful video games marketing activity, alongside our successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns. 

With our social first, and community driven philosophy, we have the collective skills and experience to deliver a fully integrated approach to retro games marketing, tailored with video game fans at heart. 

We have the ability to connect brands with the right audiences, providing relevant and engaged community content. 

Our services: 

• Brand, naming and marketing strategy 
• Social media marketing planning and content strategy 
• Social media content management and reporting 
• Community management - social media Influencer outreach for content / reviews 
• Public relations and press launches 
• Video editing, photography and content creation 
• Event promotion, management, coverage and attendance 
• Management of Kickstarter campaigns and full marketing support.

Kickstarter campaigns 

We have successfully delivered over 30 Kickstarters with over £7 million raised across a variety of creator projects from books and computer hardware to games and gaming accessories. 

We have the record for the fastest funded and most successful retrogaming campaign of all time with the ZX Spectrum Next issue 3 in August 2025, achieved in just 7 minutes. 

It was funded 1000%, ending up at a final campaign total of £2.6 million.

To get in touch please email us at ideas@gamesyouloved.com

We're here!

Very much alive and well on our social channels on gamesyouloved (see links below)

https://twitter.com/gamesyouloved

https://www.facebook.com/gamesyouloved

https://www.instagram.com/gamesyouloved

https://www.youtube.com/gamesyouloved

https://www.tiktok.com/@gamesyoulovedofficial

We are looking at the main website and a number of options so for articles for the time being we will be posting here with content. For more regular activity (daily) follow our social and also Youtube channel were we will be posting videos of all types

thanks! Chris and the gamesyouloved team

Playstation Jumper & Coaster – Christmas review

Christmas is around the corner and Playstation (via our buddies at Numskull) comes bearing more gifts for the gamer in need! 


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20 Years on - The Playstation is still looking cool for a another merchandise review for www.numskull.co.uk 

What we got.
Here on this review we're looking at the Sony Christmas Jumper and Playstation official coasters under the www.numskull.co.uk brand.

The range of gamerwear, clothing, gifts, merchandise and also Sony Official goodies www.numskull.co.uk now develop - goes further and wider than these items we've featured here too.

We'll be bringing alot more from www.numskull.co.uk Some goodies already available, plus new gaming merchandise concepts not even released over the coming months and weeks. 

www.numskull.co.uk specialises in creative, exciting concepts that it develops into products released to gamer fans the world over.

Gamers keep a look out for GYL news on this - which we'll be putting out via our social spaces on Facebook and Twitter, as well as this ongoing BLOG via www.gamesyouloved.com

This time it’s all about a nice cosy Christmas morning. What could be better than some cool coasters for your egg nog (or just a cup of tea / coffee / cocoa) to rest on – and a snazzy jumper to relax back in after a big Christmas dinner. 

The guys at Numskull have done Sony proud yet again with two cool quality products and a design that makes us wanting more! 

Gift One: The Playstation Coasters What can we say about these groovy additions to any game room. They are representing some seminal games from Playstation here. Not only that they look great all lined up together as a coaster ‘set’ Parappa the Rapper is a classic title and one of the best from this lot. Gran Turismo is smart and slick and for the petrolhead gamer in you it's a lovely design. Destruction Derby – probably our least favourite design of the four - but a great game and still its a pretty cool cover. 

To top it all however - is the legend of a game that is Wipeout – everything about the game and design of the graphic and imagery on the cover is late 90s coolness. The backs off the coaster also reflect the back of a typical case cover - a nice detail and touch. So show your gaming table or sideboard some love and get these spread out just as you’d display the real thing.

Gift Two: The Playstation Jumper Now it’s nearly Christmas and what would a day round the family dinner table be without a Christmas jumper?! 

This Playstation inspired one tops them all. It’s bright, fun and will make you stand out. 

The large is a pretty nice fit too if you’re a 42” chest – not too baggy or snug – a good fit. 

Medium comes up nice too for any gamer guy or girl wanting to do a Christmas jumper in style. 

A festive crowd pleaser for sure and you can’t not love what Numskull have done with the design here. Its all triangles, squares, exes and zeros with reindeers all mixed in along the way!



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Obituary: The Father Of Video Games, Ralph Baer

The Father Of Video Games, Ralph Baer
March 8, 1922 – Dec 6, 2014 
A true pioneer never to be forgotten 

When Ralph Baer made a tiny piece of light fly across the screen in a controlled manner he didn’t just create the idea of a video game, he created the something we often forget…the wonderment of video games. 

The fun they evoke, the surprise and the sheer joy that this entertainment medium has given us all.

As much an electronics wizard as a visionary, Ralph Baer had a vision in 1966 to create the very first games console – this is known as ‘the brown box’ which actually sits in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. The prototype was completed in 1968 way before Atari even conceived itself as a company, let alone created Pong. 

Mr Baer didn’t have ‘video games’ inventor as part of his job description, during his career as an employee of BAE working on televisions he sought to investigate the ‘idea’ of playing a game on a screen. It had no previous concept, no customer-base – he simply loved the ‘idea’ of it and sought out to make it work. Finally after many years of developing this prototype he managed to find an interested party – Magnavox, in releasing it to the World.

So in essence one man created the Video Game commercially – this 1st generation console released in August 1972 was to be known as the Magnavox Odyssey. With no sound behind the gameplay this was a simple experience – but back in the early 70s ‘an experience’ none the less for those 1st generation gamers. Those gamers that could be your moms or dads – or even grandparents! 

So from the original Magnavox came other incarnations many of which Ralph Baer was involved in – his invention of the first light gun is an amazing achievement. Forget your Playstation Move, Wii Controller or even Kinect – his idea of use a separate device to interact with a TV screen was a true revolution.

In his lifetime he not only had over 150 electronics patents to his name he created much loved games such as Simon, Electronic Perfection and Laser Command amongst many others.

And that was Ralph Baer – a revolutionary inventor. Someone to respect, admire and aspire to. Someone who created the one thing we love.

We thank you Mr Ralph Baer – not for only inventing the first video game console. But for creating the one huge, massive thing we love in life…video games.

SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis: Collected Works – Review

Any great book starts with a beginning...

And here it begins where it should always start – at the birth before the start. Before the Mega Drive / Genesis came about and the advertising and the games development. Before the original hardware and then the hardware add-ons that came with it. Before the end.

This story illustrates how Sega went head to head with Nintendo when Nintendo was at the top of it’s game bringing about the ups and the downs and the story behind this epic saga of console wars. What came from this was a series of legendary titles that any gamer in their right mind should own.

Whether you are a Sega fan boy or girl it doesn't matter. The likes of Sonic 2, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and many other games adorn this epic Sega saga. This is a global affair too – covering the Genesis in the US to the European Mega Drive, as well as the Japanese incarnation.

So this is just a written affair? Not at all. Once the story has been told by Games Journalist, Keith Stuart of the Guardian (and it doesn't drag on – just the right length for us personally with little time to spare to read these days!) we get into the visual representation of what makes the Mega Drive an icon, as well as a leading games consoles of it’s time.

This is split into key categories – some of which include:

Hardware; including development documents, schematics, a showcase of hardware released concept drawings, as well as those which remained as concepts. Even to the extent of showing product design notes for the avid fan.

Game Packaging and Character design; a massive amount of detail and artistry here. Many previously unpublished items and visual references to the wonder of Sega in the 90s.

Interviews; here we get underneath of the skin of the brand and the people who pioneered the industry at the time. From the legend of Yu Suzuki who made the arcades his own in the 80s, to Art Director Kazuyuki Hoshino – famous for his involvement with Sonic Team in the early 90s and beyond. This is an interview list that you won’t see elsewhere.

Benefactors; finishing off nicely the book thanks the gamers who made it happen….You and us here at GYL. The community who not only put their hand in their pocket to fund the book on Kickstarter. But we all helped in talking about this book during the funding period – shared it with our friends out there in the world and made it happen. We also couldn’t have done it without one man, Darren (Wall) himself of Read-Only Memory. Without Darren and his vision for the book from the concept to delivery we wouldn't have such a great legacy told in print.

The book uses the highest quality printing and reproduction to bring this all to life. Each section in the book not only uses different paper stock but different layouts to wow us.  The complete book is a solid piece indeed.

In some ways a review like this could be spoiling your own surprise factor, so we can’t go into every little detail which might do that. Like a good movie you should find out for yourself. Hopefully the images and words here tell some of that story to give you an insight without giving too much away.

Whether you lived through the early 90s and throughout to the late period of the Mega Drive - or whether you a younger gamer picking the Mega Drive up now as a retro console for the first time -  this book is going to appeal to you.

In terms of a book on the subject – we think this is the No 1 choice for anyone.

You can buy the book from Read-Only Memory – here is the link: http://readonlymemory.vg/ 

Sony Playstation - You wear it well!

20 Years on - The Playstation is still looking cool for a new merchandise review for www.numskull.co.uk 
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More great Playstation goodies were on the way from our friends at  www.numskull.co.uk and with Christmas just around the corner now we needed some inspiration for gamer friends and family - as well as ourselves here at GamesYouLoved.

More importantly now with the 20th Anniversary of the Playstation on the 3rd December 2014 this was seriously good timing too. It was time to celebrate this great gaming brand and what else did we need but some cool accessories when we were about to Party like it was 1994!

www.numskull.co.uk has some seriously cool goodies and from our time before with the wallet review we waited with eagerness as the parcel arrived. 

What we got.
Here on this review we're looking at the Sony Cufflinks range, Street Fighter socks by Capcom and Sony Sock range,  under the www.numskull.co.uk brand.

The range of gamerwear, clothing, gifts, merchandise and also Sony Official goodies www.numskull.co.uk now develop - goes further and wider than these items we've featured here too.

We'll be bringing alot more from www.numskull.co.uk Some goodies already available, plus new gaming merchandise concepts not even released over the coming months and weeks. 

www.numskull.co.uk specialises in creative, exciting concepts that it develops into products released to gamer fans the world over.

Gamers keep a look out for GYL news on this - which we'll be putting out via our social spaces on Facebook and Twitter, as well as this ongoing BLOG via www.gamesyouloved.com

Packaging
As before www.numskull.co.uk  have done an amazing production and design job in the quality of their outer packaging. As a gift this is really key as you want the item to not only to be well protected, but to look good too in presentation. The boxes are really nicely finished in a solid cufflink box with imagery from the official Sony Playstation branding.  The socks are nicely packed in plastic with care and they are wrapped with official imagery with an outer card holder - with both the Playstation and Street Fighter versions.

The cufflinks
Three cufflink styles were received. All in Sony Playstation design and styling. The quality of these are much better than you get in the high street for this price so as a set of cufflinks they are actually very good value. Aside from that they are totally geared for the gamer in your life or simply as a treat for yourself so the fact they are well built is an added bonus. Against a white shirt the black Playstation cufflinks look really smart. The silver links also look cool with a dark shirt and stand out without being too gimiky.

The designs are based on a PS1 PS2 and PS3 styling - no PS4 just yet - but who knows! Anyway for us retrogaming types these work just fine for us.

The socks

These are really cool - especially with Christmas on it's way there is nothing better than having a stylish pair of socks to go to parties, or put put on during xmas dinner with a bit of gaming afterwards. Both the Street Fighter socks and Playstation socks come in a pack of 3 and are made to a high quality on both occasions. 

For Street Fighter fans you can choose from the 3 designs in the pack depending on your mood. Select Ken, Ryu or Blanka - all 3 have a very bright colourful top to the sock and elegant black bottom. You'll stand out wearing these for all the right reasons! 

The Playstation Socks are equally memorable - with some very cool designs to them. These really evoke the style of the advertising and design of the original Playstation imagery. From the cool grey controller type, to colourful rainbow like playstation styling and the festive blue. These are socks to be seen in!

 
Watch out for more GamesYouloved Merchandise reviews from www.numskull.co.uk 

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When we got alerted to the fact we could be getting some Playstation goodies we were pretty excited.  

With the 20th Anniversary of the Playstation coming up on 3rd December 2014 this was seriously good timing.

There is a lot of gaming merchandise out there - lets face it. 
But official merchandise like we were promised by www.numskull.co.uk had some seriously cool packaging to it as we opened the parcel we were excited up to see what was inside.

What we got.
Here on this review we're looking at the Sony Playstation Wallet range. 

The range of gamerwear, gifts merchandise and also Sony Official goodies www.numskull.co.uk now develop goes alot further and wider than the wallets. 

So we'll be bringing alot more from www.numskull.co.uk Some goodies already available, plus new gaming merchandise concepts not even released over the coming months and weeks. 

www.numskull.co.uk specialises in creative, exciting concepts that it develops into products released to gamer fans the world over.

Gamers keep a look out for GYL news on this - which we'll be putting out via our social spaces on Facebook and Twitter, as well as this ongoing BLOG via www.gamesyouloved.com

Packaging
Lets start with the packaging. All official - all in keeping with the branding and identity of Sony. Looks great on the shelf and pretty damn sexy if you were to give this to any gamer boy or girl as a gift for Christmas, or just any time you wanted!

The outer packaging is tough, well built and does not scrimp in terms of colour reproduction and finishing.  The graphic design of the packaging is well balanced too - using the Sony Playstation blue hued background imagery. This is a gamer gift, but a gift you could happily feel like you are getting some real merchandise quality to it.  Let's face it there's some crap out there in our world - this is not that! The design is smart and well placed for any avid Playstation fan or someone just looking for a quality wallet with a personality.

The Wallets.
Three wallet styles were received. All in Sony Playstation design.
First off - the classic grey style mimics that of the Playstation controller. The iconic X O ▲ ◼ are used on one side of the wallet in full colour and so close to the original controller graphics. Sat next to a controller they fit together so well. On the reverse side of this 'Controller' wallet is the D pad - again completely in line with the original Playstation design. If you're a big fan of the controller product design this is a great version to have.

The other 2 designs come in the same styling but with a colour variation. Based on the actual classic Playstation console design they mimic the front and back of the console. 

The variation is with the black, which is pretty slick on the inside and outside. The Playstation logo adorns the inside with no other branding. Which is something we really like. Its not overkill and as an older gamer who likes gamer-gear, you'd be proud to own one of these rather than it looking too kid-like.

In the more conventional yet desirable original grey - sat right next to your original Playstation this looks like it's little brother - but in wallet style!  The front of the wallet is a like for like replication of the original console top - official Sony this is! Flip the wallet over - just like the console and you have the vents and detailing. The material used is pretty tough and will take a beating out there which you need. Stitching and print reproduction is great too - we'll be putting this through its paces more but on original test - bending it and rubbing the material, it's holding up nicely.

We can't wait to get out and use these more now when we're out and about. Shopping, down the pub or buying retro games at events or stores we come across. This will be a cool addition to have.

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