Limey Yank Games

Hopefully you've taken note of the notice above. The current situation is that I am hopeful that we can avoid much the additional bureaucracy by simply reclassifying our counters as 'decorated cardnboard - cut to size', ratyher than game components. So, we may be OK - but there's still achance we won't.

More positively, I'm delighted to report that we've not only added a few new counters to our offering but that we have also add a SHED LOAD of games (new and used) to the LYG Shop. Do please take a look (though note that we will almost definitely cease shipping games to the USA from the 27th of this month).

I can also report that we're back on top of our orders and the post-France backlog is now cleared.

On a less happy note, after being on the phone with a very helpful and patient Epson Support agent for four hours yesterday, it appears my printer needs to go in for repair. With the 22nd October deadline mentioned at the top of the page, this couldn't have happened at a worse time. I am going to try and delay despatching it as long as possible to accommodate what I suspect may be a rush of U.S. orders, but if they insist it be sent ASAP, then I'll have to suspend production despite the impending deadline.

The more observant amongst you (at least, those of you without adblockers) should be seeing a significant change to the site. We've removed Google Ads. These have been a good source of moderate income (around £10 per month) over the past few years, and I've always passed the payments to my daughter, Natasha, as a 'thank you' for the technical work behind the current version of LYG. I've only ever read one complaint about them (so thanks for your tolerance) but have been aware, for some time, that they are rather invasive and so distract from the 'Sponsored Downloads' and LYG Ads on the site - and these are placed by companies supporting me - so I deemed it unfair to keep them.

Hopefully you appreciate the new (old) cleaner look to the site. Of course, this means that I am even more appreciative of those of you that SUPPORT LIMEY YANK GAMES.

We've made another change too. Whilst it is less immediately obvious, it will no doubt be just as appreciated, as the removal of Google Ads, by those of you that it does affect. We have removed Google Analytics. Whilst this won't have a direct impact on you, the fact that Ads and Analytics have both been removed, means that we no longer serve any cookies and, as such, don't need to have a (Cookie) Consent Management Platform (CMP). There's no longer the need to untick (uncheck for you in the USA) seemingly hundreds of cookies/vendors' 'legitimate interest', if you object to them, every time you clear cookies from your cache. As with Ads, I've only had one visitor complain but I could empathise. I was obliged to have a CMP as I wanted to host Google Ads but, due to the low revenue it generated, I wanted a 'free' one. At the time, none of the free CMPs appeared to offer a 'Reject All' - hence the pain you were required to go through with masses of unticking. I'll admit, until I was in the process of removing the CMP we had, I hadn't realised that GDPR requires any CMP used to include a 'Reject All'.

So, again, thanks for putting up from the inconveniences my modest monetisation of the site had created for you, and I hope you enjoy the return to the older 'feel'.

And finally...

My thanks as always to our sponsors, advertisers, contributors, customers and visitors.

Limey