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Club Nintendo offers Dragon Quest IX screensaver, Mario towels

by JC Fletcher on Dec 2nd 2010 12:00AM

Club Nintendo has introduced two more choices for your fun-money shopping. Another 10-Coin screensaver is available, this time featuring Dragon Quest IX artwork against a backdrop of the world map. If you're less prone to screen burn-in and more prone to spill your drink, you may be more interested in the other new item: the set of three Mario towels originally released in Japan last July.

Of course, given that each towel goes for 350 Coins, you'd probably be better off reaching for the paper towels, instead of ordering one of these and then waiting several weeks for it to arrive. We don't want to imagine the horror of actually cleaning with one of these. They're too ... collectible!

Source: Club Nintendo

Tags: club-nintendo, Dragon-Quest-IX, ds, mario, nintendo, screensaver, towel, towels, wii

Reader Comments (18)

Who is spending hundreds of dollars of merchandising points on napkin sized towels?

....oh.

Jeez only 10 more DS games to go and I too can get a towel made in Taiwan for half a peso.

Im still waiting for the Messenger Bags to go back in stock

Who would buy the screensaver? It only takes 1 person to upload it on the Internet to ruin it.

@JIAGPOS

Why wait for that when you can just hit up Google Images for some DQIX artwork, save it, then use your OS's built-in slideshow screensaver to run them?

I know its free stuff, but Nintendo is really not trying

@Lerkero
clarity: free as in reward for purchasing merchandise

@Lerkero
I don't even think they read the "Please tell us how we can improve" part in those surveys.

@L4our
If they did, there'd be more NES games in there.... :P
I'm pretty sure no one put in "Dude, you should totally have washcloths as a reward, they're totally rad!". Yeah, they're washcloths, not towels...

@Lerkero

I used to have a Nintendo Power Magazine subscription in the 90s. I got the SNES game "Illusion of Gaia" which was actually pretty good and later on a gold N64 controller both for free. That was just for ordering magazines for a small price per year.

Now, we buy $50 games and do a bunch of surveys and we get paper or plastic throw away items or small digital downloads. Nintendo needs to step up ... especially after Microsoft's announcement.

I dunno ...maybe Nintendo is aiming at 8 year olds for their prizes, but I'm looking straight into the Gift Horse's mouth and all I see are cavities.

Excuse everybody, we have an announcement. Please do not take the Bowser acid. Everybody, the Bowser acid is not good. Thank you.

@edgore

Wait, you're saying I shouldn't havOHMYGOD THE CEILING IS MADE OF SPIDERS.

@edgore
Wow, that was exactly my first thought as well.

Scroll scroll... WTF, mario blotter acid?

@edgore and finally, the inspiration for mario truly makes sense.

A plumber who takes giant red and white mushrooms to grow in size goes on several world spanning adventures with his pet dinosaur and his ambiguously gay brother.

I find this an amusing contrast to the article posted immediately before it.

Pretty sure that looks like some acid I took in the 90's.

I've been worried that once I get the 800 points to get G&W2, they would release something really, really cool that I would have to pick up instead of the game. So far, they've released tote bags, towels, and pins. Wow.

Wait... are these towels or napkins? HUGE difference in my opinion...

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Club Nintendo offers Dragon Quest IX screensaver, Mario towels

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