Club Nintendo adds over 100 free games before shutdown
Club Nintendo began in 2003 as a way of rewarding loyal Nintendo fans with games, merchandise and other goodies. Now, after more than a decade, Club Nintendo is shutting down, but not before giving fans one last batch of rewards, which includes downloads of 117 Nintendo Games.
Items on Club Nintendo can be purchased with coins, which can be earned through tasks such as completing surveys or by registering codes found on Nintendo products. New coins cannot be earned after March 31, 2015, and all coins must be redeemed by 11:59PM PT on June 30, 2015.
Some of the physical merchandise available on Club Nintendo includes t-shirts, desktop calendars, greeting cards and posters, all with popular Nintendo characters like Mario and Link.
The reward program’s game library now includes 117 different games on every system from the original Nintendo Entertainment System to the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. And the games available are not long-forgotten flops that no one wants—not only those, anyway. The list includes several top selling titles from multiple console generations.
Some of the available games include:
- Super Mario Bros (NES)
- The Legend of Zelda (NES)
- Super Metroid (SNES)
- Super Mario World (SNES)
- Super Mario 64 (N64)
- Super Smash Bros (N64)
- Wii Fit U (Wii U)
The console titles can be downloaded on either the Wii or the Wii U, depending on the game. There are also several Game Boy and Nintendo DS games available for download on the Nintendo 3DS.
Products released after January 20 are no longer eligible for registration with Club Nintendo, but you can still register older products and complete surveys for coins through the end of March.
If you have products to register or unspent coins to spend, you should head over to club.nintendo.com and use them before it is too late.
While Club Nintendo is going away, the idea of a Nintendo loyalty rewards program is not. In the official announcement for the end of Club Nintendo, the game maker says that it is working on “a new customer loyalty program for our fans,” promising that more details will be released “at a later date.”
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