The bulk of my 4 years at Nostalgic Video Games was spent as Social Media Manager. I launched our YouTube channel which achieved monetization in less than a year, and has since garnered over 5,000 subscribers.
On top of entertaining and informational content, I ran our social media pages, managing our day-to-day product posts and advertising. This came with a lot of graphic design and marketing duties.
I also managed our vintage toy room, buying/selling of vintage toys, and retail responsibilities. Lots of graphic design work went into my time at Nostalgic and a bulk of my favorites (and some of my not so favorites) are here
Our YouTube channel, where almost every video was written, produced, and edited by me. Graphic Design (pfp/banner) a collaboration between me and Nostalgic Video Games owner.
Nostalgic Video Games Instagram, was ran by me during my time there. Daily posts/restocks as well as news, events, and ads!
I really wanted to include the storefront in a lot of our channel's content, and where better to feature it than on the front banner of our profile! The owner had come up with the slogan and wanted it incorporated in most materials, and we collaborated on the best text formatting.
BUMPER STICKER! I had a ton of fun doing these up and it is SO cool to be driving around Florence Kentucky and seeing a car with this slapped on the back. That's my design!!
Logo for our old "Vintage Toy Room" that is now more of a "Vintage Toy SIDE" of the store! Loved making the N64 controller into an X-Wing that carried over the control button scheme!
Simplified logo design for use as a profile pic on social media that still incorporated all of our colors. I had to work with our pre-established logo, which invited an interesting challenge!
Here is a version with a transparent background. The owner wanted to keep the Red/Yellow/Black color scheme since that was our brand at the time, but the yellow and black felt like a little too much for a profile picture, so we simplified it to what most people really associated us with: the red controller!
Sticker/T-Shirt design ideas based on the simplified logo. The owner wanted to use this design to create some fun shirts showing off our (at the time) ten year anniversary.
Simplified logo that features our full name and not the shortened "NVG". This was just some playing around with the design trying to see what could fit where.
Arcade T-Shirt design! Absolutely love this nostalgia-fueled 70s psychedelia concert poster vibe! The arcade was our pride and joy, and we really wanted to celebrate it's opening!
The back of the T-shirt design featuring a list of the arcade cabinets our arcade featured its opening weekend. All of us at NVG love music, so we knew we wanted the shirt to evoke the nostalgia of a vintage band tour shirt featuring cabinets like tour-stops!
Our lineup! These are featured on the outside doors and near the interior entrance to the arcade. In the almost two years since the arcade opened, this list has expanded quite a bit...
Main image for a podcast concept me and my coworker worked on for awhile. Went for a vintage "Schoolhouse Rock" look for this.
Some arcade logo designs I mocked up trying to retain our recognizable logo while prominently featuring "arcade". Ultimately, this design wasn't used, but I still very much enjoy it even if it didn't make it past the rough concept phase.
An ad campaign I wanted to push that featured retro games as "relics" that would have accompanied the launch of our online site.
We had these stickers available for awhile based on a goofy series of Tiktoks we made.
A "Metal Logo" design I made for fun shortly after joining the team at Nostalgic. About two years after making this it came up in conversation with the owner, who ended up LOVING it! We made limited edition T-shirts featuring this logo in white on black. Making the N64 controller into a pentagram was probably my favorite part. I still people wearing these around the greater Cincinnati area and get comments when I wear mine every time!
One of my favorite thumbnails from my time running Nostalgic Video Games YouTube. Something about the colors, chrome controller, and easy composition makes it super catching.
Another one of my favorite thumbnails for a video essay about how Nintendo Gamecube games are increasing in value while decreasing in quantity. Keep silica packets in your game cases!!!
A lot of my controller videos featured my face as that is a general rule of thumb for YouTube thumbnails, but I love these product shot thumbnails; and the manufacturers did too! My controller videos ended up getting us a few sponsorships and even some new brand deals and distributors for our brick and mortar stores!
Hyperkin was one of our best selling brands at Nostaligc, so we made lots of videos showing off their products, reviews of new products, and how-to videos on set up and use.
The RetroN 5 was always a hot seller! NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, AND the Japanese versions of each console are all playable in one convenient HDMI console.
We did a handful of Staff-Pick videos, and this was definitely the most fun. Super Mario RPG is a GEM!
Always important to clean your cartridges!
A social media ad I made to promote an in-store event!
Early tag designed after an N64 cartridge. NVG's YouTube was originally called "Nostalgic Network" before we homogenized our brand all under the "Nostalgic Video Games" name.
"Nigel the Nostalgi-gator" mascot concept. Made lots of designs for this guy, settling here. Ultimately, the owner decided to go in a different direction, but this little gator-dude will always have a place in my heart.
A whole series of banners I designed that currently hang in-store at Nostalgic to direct customers to each system's section. Each features a prominent and recognizable character as well as a relevant background.
A banner I made featuring some of the toy-lines we buy and sell (was made before the Nostalgic Toy Room Logo)