We Did It! We Finally Subscribed to Video Games Monthly! What's in our March 2020 Box?

In this video, we share some information on Video Games Monthly, a monthly subscription service you can use to bolster your retro video game collection.

Where I live in Central Illinois I'm both lucky and unlucky. I'm lucky to have a great retro store 10 minutes from my house in Love Action Games, where there's always an awesome selection and good banter with Adrian the owner. I'm unlucky because, well, it's Illinois. But also, there aren't any huge swap meets, conventions, or things like that in my area like the Pixel Game Squad are blessed with. Sometimes finding good games is harder than it should be. Other places in the country have that same issue, and they don't have a Live Action Games to fall back on. So what can you do to add to your collection without having to pay eBay prices?

Enter Video Games Monthly, a subscription service where you can get a box with 2-5 retro games per-month, depending on your subscription level. Their library of systems is really large, from the NES and SNES, Genesis, Master System, even newer systems like PS1, PS2 and Wii U! What I find exciting is they also offer options for import systems like the Famicom and Super Famicom! Very cool!

The way VGM works is that you select what systems you want to collect for and let them know what games you already have. From here, they'll send you a box within the first 10-days of the month based on your system and library selections. You could get all one system's games or a mix, all depending on their inventory in a specific month.

Now, there are a few important things you need to do when you set up your account. First, understand that regardless of when you sign up in the month your first box will arrive at the beginning of the following month. Knowing this upfront should help reduce the wait and possible frustration. Also, you need to make sure your library is updated at least 10-days before the end of the month to endure you don't receive any duplicates. I didn't do this, which is why my first box included almost all duplicates.

What we got:
NES:
Super Mario Bros 3
Spy Hunter
Blades of Steel

Combined Value: $28

Master System:
Kenseiden
Value: $15

Value of games in the box: $43
Subscription Cost: $42

I appreciate the fact that VGM included the 4th game at no charge due to the cost of the games they sent. This is totally on me that I got duplicates because I didn't fill out my library. I do wish that they had the option to add more than 200 games to your library for those of us with large collections, this way it eliminates the possibility of getting duplicates. I also would like to see them offer a way to upload a CSV file or some database file to quickly update one's library to reduce the time it takes, especially as someone who has every system they offer games for. Finally, and I know this is hard to do, but having TurboGrafx Games on the list would be a nice bonus too, but I also know this could get cost-prohibitive.

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