Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Video tour of Game & Watch Collection 2]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/06/video-tour-of-game-and-watch-collection-2/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/06/video-tour-of-game-and-watch-collection-2/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/06/video-tour-of-game-and-watch-collection-2/#comments Want to nab yourself Game & Watch Collection 2 from Club Nintendo, but a bit apprehensive about dropping 800 of your hard-earned Coins? We get it -- in this try-before-you-buy modern world we live in, it's tough to take a leap of faith. Thankfully, some of the internet's bravest have uploaded videos of the second collection, one of which you can find past the break.

[Via Go Nintendo]

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JoystiqVideo tour of Game & Watch Collection 2 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>club-nintendogame-and-watchgame-and-watch-collectiongame-and-watch-collection-2nintendovideoTue, 06 Apr 2010 16:50:00 EST<![CDATA[Game & Watch & Ultra Hand & Mario posters available from Club Nintendo]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/31/game-and-watch-and-ultra-hand-and-mario-posters-available-from-club-ni/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/31/game-and-watch-and-ultra-hand-and-mario-posters-available-from-club-ni/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/31/game-and-watch-and-ultra-hand-and-mario-posters-available-from-club-ni/#commentsNintendo has added the next round of rewards to its North American Club Nintendo store, for those of you eager to burn off your fake money. The WiiWare game Grill-Off with Ultra Hand is now available for real, priced at just 80 Coins. If you prefer to spend way more Coins, the second volume of Nintendo's Game & Watch Collection for DS is now available -- for 800 Coins, 200 more than the price of the original.

Finally, a set of three Mario posters has been added to the shop for 350 Coins. They're okay ... for something that isn't a free video game.

JoystiqGame & Watch & Ultra Hand & Mario posters available from Club Nintendo originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>club-nintendogame-and-watchgame-and-watch-collectiongame-and-watch-collection-2grill-off-with-ultra-handmarioposterultra-handWed, 31 Mar 2010 16:51:00 EST<![CDATA[Seeing stars: Club Nintendo launches in Australia]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/11/seeing-stars-club-nintendo-launches-in-australia/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/11/seeing-stars-club-nintendo-launches-in-australia/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/11/seeing-stars-club-nintendo-launches-in-australia/#commentsClub Nintendo has finally launched in Australia, offering a sort of hybrid version of the older European Stars Catalogue and the US/Japan Club Nintendo models. Like the new US Club, the Australian site offers exclusive goods in exchange for points earned by purchasing games; however, the store uses the same "Stars Catalogue" nomenclature used for Europe's mostly-virtual offerings.

The new Catalogue currently has but five items available, but that list of five includes the Game & Watch Collection (as found on the OFLC!) and one sort-of-awesome item we don't have in the US: these Mario face towels. They just cost 1300 Stars, 250 of which you can get for signing up!
[Via IGN]

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>australiaclub-nintendogame-and-watch-collectionstars-catalogueWed, 11 Mar 2009 17:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Game & Watch Collection coming to Australia: Club Nintendo imminent?]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/02/game-and-watch-collection-coming-to-australia-club-nintendo-immin/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/02/game-and-watch-collection-coming-to-australia-club-nintendo-immin/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/02/game-and-watch-collection-coming-to-australia-club-nintendo-immin/#commentsA rating for the DS Game & Watch Collection has popped up on the Australian OFLC ratings board, along with a bunch of other stuff, including Boom Blox Bash Party (under the bafflingly different title Boom Blox Smash Party). The collection, featuring Oil Panic, Donkey Kong, and Green House, has been used as a Club Nintendo reward in Japan and North America. News about Australia's Club Nintendo rewards program was expected last week, so this confluence of events suggests that this is to be handed out as a reward for Aussie gamers soon.

That is, whenever Nintendo of Australia gets around to setting up the Club Nintendo program.

[Via GoNintendo]

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So it's happened -- Club Nintendo has finally made it to North America. Sure, the website has been a bit shaky on its newborn legs, but the important thing is: it's free stuff. Some of the prizes are unexpectedly awesome as well, hailing as they do from the Japanese program. Browse most forums and it's clear that Game & Watch Collection is a favorite, but we're also loving those classy DS Card and Stylus cases.

What's your favorite freebie on the service (full range here), and have you ordered anything yet? Have any of you found a reason to grumble about Nintendo giving away gifts?

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We imagine some of our Australian readers read yesterday's news concerning Club Nintendo in North America with a burning sense of injustice. That's kind of understandable. The Aussie Club Nintendo was announced back in April, half a year before the North American version, yet has still to launch. Sucks to be Australia.

But not for much longer, maybe. Aussie-Nintendo was scoring free drinks at The Nintendo Experience launch party in Melbourne last night when it was informed by Nintendo representatives that Club Nintendo will launch in Oz at some point close to Christmas or New Year. According to the reps, the Australian program has been developed alongside the North American service, and a website redesign had caused the ridiculous delay of eight months. Memo to Nintendo Australia: time to get some faster code monkeys.

Want to see Club Nintendo's greatest gifts to Japan and Europe? OF COURSE YOU DO. So go here.

JoystiqNo, really: Nintendo says Aussie Club Nintendo is close originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nintendo opened the North American Club Nintendo site ... for a minute. It was long enough for us to see some Rewards! The prizes are all totally great stuff that Club Nintendo in Japan offered, including the Mario hat DS game stand, hanafuda cards, DS game cases, and, yes, Game & Watch Collection.

We saw this briefly, we went to begin migrating our My Nintendo accounts over, and then ... back to "coming soon." But we totally saw it. NeoGAFfer Coilshot saw it and had the good sense to screencap the rewards page, as you can see above. Here's some good news you can read now: Nintendo's Club Nintendo FAQ confirms the Gold and Platinum programs and the associated special prizes.

While we wait, why not enjoy our European/Japanese Club Nintendo retrospective and associated gallery?

Update: It's live. Jump in here.

Gallery: Club Nintendo Awesomeness

The Legend of GaudinessFor that authentic Super Famicom experience ...Stuck on youA free game (or four)Miimote

[Thanks to Justin Wilson and Wii Fanboy's Wesley Fenlon]

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[Update: it's up! Huzzah!]

Nintendo opened the North American Club Nintendo site ... for a minute. It was long enough for us to see some Rewards! The prizes are all totally great stuff that Club Nintendo in Japan offered, including the Mario hat DS game stand, hanafuda cards, DS game cases, and, yes, Game & Watch Collection.

We saw this briefly, we went to begin migrating our My Nintendo accounts over, and then ... back to "coming soon." But we totally saw it. NeoGAFfer Coilshot saw it and had the good sense to screencap the rewards page, as you can see above. Here's some good news you can read now: Nintendo's Club Nintendo FAQ confirms the Gold and Platinum programs and the associated special prizes.

While we wait, why not enjoy our European/Japanese Club Nintendo retrospective and associated gallery?


[Thanks to Justin Wilson and Wii Fanboy's Wesley Fenlon]

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The best thing about Japan's Club Nintendo? The occasional very cool branded merchandise, but, mostly, the exclusive games. Now there's a glimmer of hope that one of the most popular of these may be offered as a loyalty prize by the new North American chapter of the Club.

We're talking about the Game & Watch Collection, which has only been available in Japan ... or for those willing to pay for it on eBay and various online retailers to the tune of $40 and up. But now the game has been rated by the ESRB (it got an "E" rating, not surprisingly) leading to the inevitable conclusion / wishful thinking that it will be available in the States for some amount of Club Nintendo points.

The collection brings together re-creations of three classic Nintendo Game & Watch LCD games: Donkey Kong, Oil Panic, and Green House. Watch them in action after the break.

[Via DS Fanboy]

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JoystiqGame & Watch Collection could be US-bound originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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By now, you've no doubt heard: Nintendo is rolling out Club Nintendo in the U.S. by the end of 2008. Wahey! Yeah, we know that Japan (generally speaking) gets the most excellent items when compared to elsewhere, but listen here, bub: it's free stuff. We're not about to complain, and nor should you (if you want to feel sorry for somebody, Australia's Club Nintendo scheme has gone AWOL, and check out South Africa's piss-poor Stars Catalogue).

Anyway, as these are happy times for North Americans, we thought we'd reflect on some of the bestest Club Nintendo gifts and trinkets from both Japan and Europe to date -- some of which could end up in the U.S.! Hit the gray button to start DS Fanboy's whirlwind Club Nintendo Tour of Wonders!

JoystiqA brief history of Club Nintendo Awesomeness originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.

Gunpei Yokoi, the same engineer who would eventually go on to father the Game Boy and Metroid, was riding home one evening on a bullet train when he spotted a bored businessman randomly pressing buttons on an LCD calculator to entertain himself. Believing that commuters would enjoy passing the time with handheld video games, Yokoi soon developed a set of portable gaming systems which also doubled as watches/alarms -- the Game & Watch.

This week, we'll take a look at several ads for the fourth Game & Watch series, the Multi Screen, whose clamshell case and vertically stacked screens would later serve as inspiration for the Nintendo DS's design.

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JoystiqPromotional Consideration: Multi Screen originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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