Nintendo reveals American Club Nintendo bonuses [update]

by Andrew Yoon on Jul 14th 2009 8:05AM

Nintendo loyalists that have been diligently registering their games can now pick up a reward through the Club Nintendo loyalty program. Those who have earned 300 or more Coins (equivalent to 6 Wii game purchases) are granted Gold status, while those who have earned 600 or more Coins are granted Platinum status. These members are now entitled to an exclusive members-only bonus.

Platinum members have the choice of two prizes:

Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! -- this downloadable WiiWare game is available exclusively to Club Nintendo Platinum members. In this special download, you'll be able to fight one-on-one against your coach, Doc Louis. Update: Screenshots now added.
Mario Hat -- a "true-to-life" replica of Mario's signature headpiece. Nintendo notes that the hat "may be big for small children."

Gold members will receive a special 2010 calendar. See more images after the break.

Doc Louis' Punch-Out!!

Tags: bonus, calendar, club-nintendo, DS, hat, mario, Nintendo, punch-out, swag, Wii

Reader Comments (162)

Going to have to get the hat.

It looks like you're already wearing one.

That... was genius.

Jesus is our savior.

This will make it easier to pick the retards out at a gaming convention.

hoo hoooo

Weak, the hat's too small for me. Yes, I have a giant head. The XXL size is snug.

That's why there is a choice!

Nintendo knows of your ginormous noggin and specifically built the Doc Louis' Punch Out just for YOU!

Aren't they sweet?

As usual, compared to Japan, this is SO WEAK

Right? They can't even SHOW you the US calendar because the Japanese have been having awesomeness shoved forcefully into every orifice for years now from every game company. TGS is even open to the public for a bit every year. But the airfare is still too expensive.

I bet the phrase "Images are of the 2009 Calendar sent to Club Nintendo Elite Status Members in Japan -- a new version of this calendar for 2010 is in development for North American consumers." secretly means "Japan gets an awesome calendar. You guys will get our used toilet paper stapled together and spat on."

Nintendo's reward program is so useless. I probably have 15 games I haven't even registered with them because I stopped caring and they didn't say what they were going to offer. On top of that I have all systems registered and upwards of 35 games and the most I ever got was the pink DS stylus for Kirby.

Want to send me some of your unused codes? I'm just a few games short of a Game & Watch Collection.

same here, please?

I'll also happily take those codes off your hands, my good man. Get me some Hanafuda cards or somethin'.

"Don Lewis"

yeah, the N and C arent even next to each other on the keyboard. hahaha

Andrew was probably watching The Sopranos when he posted it.

Or thinking of Don King.

Or possibly Don Flamenco, another Punch-Out!! character.

Definitely not a fan of the reward system, you get too few points for to few games, you'd have to buy pretty much every game they've ever released to get anything half decent. And in the UK, we don't get anything anywhere near as cool as that hat :(

Put in mine for The Hat. At least their shipping is fast. Got my Hanafuda cards (pretty fucking cool reward, in my opinion) the next day via First Class mail. I'd love to know how they did that.

You probably live near their rewards distribution center.

True day. I live in Idaho and I got mine two days later. Teleportation or something.

You know the Hanafuda deck is only 500 stars in Japan right?

Nintendo North America rapes us by charging us 800 coins.

Not cool at all.

You realize they don't HAVE to have a rewards program, right? They don't HAVE to offer anything.

Wow, proof that you don't need to say anything stupid to be downvoted. Just something with any smidge of an opinion.

Fucktards.

Huh, I was kind of bummed about being 10 coins short of Platinum when they announced the cutoff date, but I kind of like the calendar.

Calendar fanboy. ;)

Hmmm...not exactly what I was hoping for.

My concern with Punch Out (and the VC in general) is that it'll only be playable on the Wii. I'll be pissed if I can't transfer all of my games to the next console.

The hat looks like something you'd pick up at Nintendo World for $10.

Get over your entitlements and get pissed already.

I have the same concern. I'm buying all these games...but what guarantee do I have that I can transfer these games? Backwards compatibility is such an important thing anymore what with buying newer systems by trading in the old, will the downloads we bought previously be stuck? Its starting to affect how I buy download games...

oh japan, why do you always get the better rewards? oh well, id still like to put it next to my haseo figure, master chief helmet, fallout lunchbox, and the soon to be mine night vision goggles.

Are the CN points for 1st party games only?

Yep... Anything published by Nintendo. So that includes stuff like Endless Ocean.

Oh, lame. I was hoping that I might get points from some of the games I actually bought/want.

Well, you can also register all 2nd party games...

Wow. Very underwhelming. I would have loved to get the SNES Wii Virtual Console controller instead like they got in Japan. Oh well, I'll get the hat.

Yeah, I was really hoping for something useful like a unique controller or a Tingle game. I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I'm disappointed by these choices.

I have about 10 or 11 wii games, but some can't be registered, and the ones I tried to register were a pain because the site was so slow and broken. All I got for my trouble was a bunch of spam emails from Nintendo over the months. Now that I've seen the rewards, I'm glad I didn't waste any more effort on it.

Japan gets a Super Famicom classic controller, we get a piece of swag.

Sounds like you were doing this way back in November or December right? I think they were still updating their site around that time, and it was glitchy as all heck. It's been fixed up since then though, so you shouldn't have more trouble with it.

As far as the emails go, there is an option on the site to opt out of them if you don't want them.

I literally own 32 Wii/DS games, yet I can only register like 6 of them on Nintendo's site

so ridiculous

The only thing that Club Nintendo is useful for in Europe is free Wii Points, and even then, all the games I got for the Wii and Gamecube only gave me 2000 points.

Hmmm... I'm torn... The Doc Louis' Punch-Out sounds fun, and would make a sort of nice demo for Punch-Out (since I haven't bought it yet)... But a Mario hat will ALWAYS be cool!

Wearing that hat is like having the word "GEEK" tatooed on my forehead, a beacon that says, "please beat me up".

NOT cool.

You know, BlackDS, some of us are out of high school, and actually have friends that play video games too.

In Europe they are going to offer a golden Link riding Epona statue for.. 15000 coins

It's been up a couple of times before actually. But it's very small, and 15000 stars is more than you could ever have.. You'd have to buy duplicate games, just to get enough.

"You'd have to buy duplicate games"

They won't let you register a game twice, I tried with my two copies of New SMB. Didn't work.

Hatted.

Although I'm curious to see how the game is. The fact that it's download only and therefore far from future-proof out weighs that it's probably a cooler prize than the hat.

So nobody is excited by the Punch-Out game? I thought it seemed rather cool. Though, that's without seeing any screenshots or anything.

It would be nice if some non-Nintendo games were allowed onto the Club Nintendo registration programme. Seeing as I haven't bought a Ninty game since Disaster, but several third party since, I'd probably have a healthy balance.

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Doc Louis' Punch-Out!!

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