Club Nintendo: Elite Member Rewards Announced

Any one who is a Nintendo fan must be a member of Club Nintendo, otherwise you are just wasting all your hardcore love for the Big N when you could be getting some love in return.

Club Nintendo is a website that rewards member with items when they enter codes found in first party Nintendo games (Nintendo Wii, Wii-ware and Nintendo DS titles) and spend time answering questionnaires about those games. From these codes and questionnaires, you will be given certain amount of coins which will built up over time and can then be used to buy rewards from the Club Nintendo store. I have personally purchased a cool Legend of Zelda poster set and am now saving up for Nintendo Hanafuda Cards.

On top of the rewards you trade in coins for, members are also given rewards for achieving either Gold or Platinum status within club year by reaching certain coin amounts (coins traded in throughout the club year still count towards the elite status total in the end).

Club Nintendo just announced the new Gold and Platinum rewards for this year and they are pretty cool. Gold members who earned 300 coins this year will be receiving a 2011 calender filled with custom Nintendo artwork. The picture seen here is artwork from last year's calender. They haven't posted the new 2011 calender artwork yet.

Platinum members who earned 600 coins this year will be receiving a Mario and friends statue which features various Super Mario Bros. characters like Mario, Bowser, Princess Peach and more.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-ALong Video Game?

My favorite Doctor in the whole world is at it again with a whole new project, though he really needs to finish his last one. Doc Octoroc has begun work on a 8-bit NES video game of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

So far he's posted a few screenshots he's created plus three NES style arrangements of 3 songs from the movie: So They Say, My Eyes and Everything You Ever Finale.

Doc plans to make the entire score into NES style arrangements and make the movie into a NES style game which you can play. It's unclear yet the genre of game he plans to make it into yet but it should be cool to see the final product.

Till then, here's the link to the three songs he has up so far.

Club Nintendo is Coming to North America!

Nintendo also announced yesterday that their famous Club Nintendo is finally making its way to North American shores.

The popular Club Nintendo already available in Europe, United Kingdom, Japan, South Africa and Australia, provides prizes to Nintendo fans in exchange for all their Nintendo purchases and participation in the club.

A lot of game companies create similiar websites or club to create hype for upcoming games and I have found some to be worth the effort to join as they do yield prizes after a while. Konami Stars was one such club and I managed to score at least 3 or 4 games and an art book from them just by referring people and particpating in the activitates.

Hopefully Club Nintendo will ship to Canada unlike SquareEnix who brought their fan site over here and managed Canadian sign up but not shipping or contest involvement.