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Finally! Club Nintendo coming to North America photo

How many times have you seen incredible Nintendo swag and goodies on the internet, only to find that they're Japanese Club Nintendo-only items. The question always comes up: Why don't we have a Club Nintendo? Well, we do now!

Details were scarce at the Nintendo Media Summit this morning, but we do know that we're finally getting the chance to join the club, Nintendo's form of a customer loyalty award system. Other than the statement that Club Nintendo North America debuts "this holiday season," Big N gives us nothing else go to on. 

For now, check out the Do-Wantiness of the Japanese Club Nintendo items and daydream about how you'll spend your points. Hopefully we'll get the same type of items, including exclusive games.


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47 comments | showing # 1 to 47

Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 12:51
Holyetheline
Finally! That's good news i guess.
Muon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 12:52
Muon
lol wut
craineum's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 12:53
craineum
Actually this is something I am looking forward to.
Guagloves's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 12:55
Guagloves
Sweet. Hopefully there will be some awesome things for us to GET.
Krow's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 12:56
Krow
Awesome.
DarkTower06's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 12:58
DarkTower06
Retroactive rewards a must for current Wii (and maybe DS) owners!
KMCC's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 12:58
KMCC
Sweet Awesome.
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:06
pendelton21
Ah, great. My deal with Satan finally paid off.
Stella Wong's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:07
Stella Wong
ouu finally! I've been waiting for this for a long time.
gravitys plaything's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:08
gravitys plaything
how exactly does club Nintendo work? Is it like frequent flier miles or something?
garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:12
garison
Is anyone aloud to join the Club?
Overcow's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:12
Overcow
I used to be a member of Club Nintendo when it was in Sweden... Ah, good times.
Redzie's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:18
Redzie
Hopfully theyll recognize all the products I've registered on their website. Now gimme that SNES Wii controller!!!
DrRockso's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:19
DrRockso
Are... are those Mario themed Tarot cards?
manasteel88's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:21
manasteel88
and to think its only been 23 years Americans have been loyal to Nintendo. Now finally they recognize us. Somehow I think NoA will still fuck this up.
CypherVR's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:27
CypherVR
about fuckin' time, nintendo finally quit fatin' around with it.
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:27
nintendoll
finally. thank you nintendoooo!
CypherVR's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:27
CypherVR
*fartin'*
naia-the-gamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:29
naia-the-gamer
YAY!!!! I hope they bring over the VC SNES controller.
Dale North's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:29
Dale North
gravitys plaything - kinda, yeah
coffeesash's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:34
coffeesash
nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Now I have to be double jealous because Europe still doesn't have one but now USA does :(
Ommegeddon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:38
Ommegeddon
I fear there is a great possibility of these being totally lame. I just can't see the same caliber of prizes being offered over here as in Japan... but we can dream.
Ashley Davis's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:42
Ashley Davis
Oh god, I hope we get access to those awesome music CDs. I already got Koopa Loud Music and Luigi B-Sides, but I've been looking for the Peach album forever and can't find a copy!
CWal37's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:51
CWal37
I'm so happy, this is such awesome news. This totally made my day.
monkeyspoon5's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:53
monkeyspoon5
Oh man, Mario Galaxy OST and SNES controller.

Yes.
sicPOS's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 13:57
sicPOS
Finally!

Time to start buying games again.
jackal27's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:00
jackal27
Crap... You want MORE of my money Nintendo!? Fine...
riomccarthy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:01
riomccarthy
SO freaking excited! I can't wait for this!!! :D
Funktastic's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:02
Funktastic
Holy hell! This may be one of the HAPPIEST days in my life! ^_^ After registering OVER 90 things on My Nintendo, I might finally get something else besides a Zelda Stylus and have to stop importing these . . .

tsunamikitsune's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:03
tsunamikitsune
Great, right after I buy an R4 they decide to start this up.

I really hope they consider games already registered when they give out rewards. I have every Nintendo system and 20 or 30 games (50-60 if you count VC games) registered to my damn account and all I have to show for it is Zelda: Master's Quest and the Zelda: Collector's Edition.

Oh, and all those games I registered, but who cares about those?
eternalplayer2345's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:14
eternalplayer2345
Finally, I've been waiting forever for this, I'm so happy right now. I wonder what kind of awesome stuff we can get.
hpv's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:20
hpv
They'd better have an SNES classic controller. I need another and would love to get one with concave buttons.
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:21
free touch
its about time.
Clbull's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:30
Clbull
We actually had something like this in Europe called the Nintendo Stars Catalogue. It was utter crap because all you could get with your stars was wallpapers which could easily be made in Photoshop or something else equally crap, even mediocre games were sold out through it. I think the japanese version had lots of better stuff.

Well I hope Club Nintendo is actually decent.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:43
Necros
This is great news, but annoyingly, I've barely bought Nintendo games lately, just because there are so many quality games on 360 lately. I need to catch up on all the DS games I've passed over and even a few Wii games.
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 14:56
Dexter345
I hope that all the time I've taken to register all of my systems and games thus far go toward something. I've got such a huge Nintendo collection it's not even funny.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 15:11
Justice
Now bring this to England!
ZekeThePlumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 15:35
ZekeThePlumber
IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME!
The Phazer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 17:04
The Phazer
Say it with me - SNES Wii controller! SNES Wii controller! SNES Wii controller!
RoboSheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 17:08
RoboSheep
See, this is how you combat piracy correctly. Give people reasons to buy your product beyond just the game/music/video. It's the special features that pull people in.
Mista Smegheneghan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 17:18
Mista Smegheneghan
NoA will screw this to the wall.
bluemeep's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 17:21
bluemeep
Please don't suck. Please, please, please don't suck.
Mista Smegheneghan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 17:25
Mista Smegheneghan
@Justice: We have this already. albeit an incredibly.... shit version of it. but a version of it nonetheless that deletes registered stars after 2 years
TheCleaningGuy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 18:35
TheCleaningGuy
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CelicaCrazed's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 21:08
CelicaCrazed
This is exciting. I never thought I'd see the day.
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/02/2008 22:32
atastysammich
Until they say otherwise, I'm assuming our swag will be along the lines of FREE Player's Guides or some such.
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/05/2008 23:19
GohanGVO
Hell yeah! Please stock it with good stuff, NoA. Not wallpapers and paper hats like Euroland.
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