As promised, Nintendo has a shitload of stuff for people to spend their coins on before the service goes bye bye. Rewards range from posters, cards, calenders, carrying cases, as well as downloadable titles, from Virtual Console games to full retail releases like Wonderful 101 and Kid Icarus Uprising. Unfortunately Club Nintendo is being completely destroyed right now so by the time us regular folk can get on all the physical stuff will probably be out.

Full list of downloadable offerings:

• Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (Wii U) 200 coins
• Super Punch-Out!! (Wii U) 200 coins
• Golden Sun (Wii U) 200 coins
• F-Zero (Wii U) 200 coins
• F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Wii U) 200 coins
• Ice Climber (Wii U) 200 coins
• Volleyball (Wii U) 200 coins
• Tennis (Wii U) 200 coins
• Pinball (Wii U) 200 coins
• NES Open Tournament Golf (Wii U) 200 coins
• Ice Hockey (Wii U) 200 coins
• Golf (Wii U) 200 coins
• Clu Clu Land (Wii U) 200 coins
• Baseball (Wii U) 200 coins
• Wario's Woods (Wii U) 200 coins
• Urban Champion (Wii U) 200 coins
• Dr. Mario (Wii U) 200 coins
• Donkey Kong 3 (Wii U) 200 coins
• Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Wii U) 200 coins
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (Wii U) 200 coins
• Super Mario Bros (Wii U) 200 coins
• Yoshi (Wii U) 200 coins
• Balloon Fight (Wii U) 200 coins
• Kid Icarus (Wii U) 200 coins
• (Wii U) Zelda II: the Adventure of Link (Wii U) 200 coins
• Metroid (Wii U) 200 coins
• Pilotwings (Wii U) 200 coins
• Wrecking Crew (Wii U) 200 coins
• Mario Bros. (Wii U) 200 coins
• Super Mario Bros 2 (Wii U) 200 coins
• Excitebike (Wii U) 200 coins
• Donkey Kong Jr. (Wii U) 200 coins
• Super Metroid (Wii U) 200 coins
• Super Mario World (Wii U) 200 coins
• Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream (Wii U) 200 coins
• Earthbound (Wii U) 250 coins
• Dr. Luigi (Wii U) 300 coins
• NES Remix (Wii U) 300 coins
• The Wonderful 101 (Wii U) 600 coins
• Wii Fit U (Wii U) 600 coins
• Game & Wario (Wii U) 600 coins
• Wii Party U (Wii U) 850 coins
• • Clu Clu Land 200 coins
  • Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels 200 coins
  • Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II 200 coins
  • NES Play Action Football 200 coins
  • Art Style: CUBELLO 200 coins
  • Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! 250 coins
  • Mario Golf 250 coins
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 250 coins
  • Star Fox 64 250 coins
  • F-Zero X 250 coins
  • Super Mario 64 250 coins
  • Super Metroid 250 coins
  • Paper Mario 250 coins
  • Mario Kart™ 64 250 coins
  • 1080°™ Snowboarding 250 coins
  • ThruSpace 250 coins
  • Super Punch-Out!! 250 coins
  • Pilotwings 250 coins
  • Super Smash Bros. 250 coins
  • Mario Tennis 250 coins
  • Eco Shooter: Plant 530 250 coins
  • Snowpack Park 250 coins
  • Excitebike: World Rally 250 coins
  • Mario Party™ 2 250 coins
  • Super Mario Kart™ 250 coins
  • The Legend of Zelda™: Majora's Mask™ 250 coins
  • Fluidity 250 coins

For 3DS:

• 3D Classics: TwinBee™ 150 coins
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins 150 coins
• Super Mario Land 150 coins
• Kersploosh! 150 coins
• Baseball 150 coins
• Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters 150 coins
• Metroid II: Return of Samus 150 coins
• Tennis 150 coins
• Golf 150 coins
• Donkey Kong 150 coins
• Mario's Picross 150 coins
• Radar Mission 150 coins
• 3D Classics: Xevious 200 coins
• Ketzal's Cooridors 200 coins
• Sparkle Snapshots 3D 200 coins
• Looksley's Line Up 200 coins
• Wario Land 2 200 coins
• Punch-Out!!™ Featuring Mr. Dream 200 coins
• Mario Golf 200 coins
• Donkey Kong 3 200 coins
• Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters 200 coins
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 200 coins
• Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword 200 coins
• A Kappa's Trail 200 coins
• Tokyo Crash Mobs 200 coins
• Brain Age Express: Math 200 coins
• Donkey Kong Jr. 200 coins
• Metroid 200 coins
• The Legend of Zelda 200 coins
• 3D Classics: Kid Icarus 200 coins
• 3D Classics Excitebike 200 coins
• Brain Age Express: Sudoku 200 coins
• 3D Classics: Urban Champion 200 coins
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong™: Minis March Again! 200 coins
• Chibi-Robo!: Photo Finder 250 coins
• Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move 250 coins
• Dillon's Rolling Western 250 coins
• HarmoKnight 300 coins
• Dillon's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger 300 coins
• Fluidity: Spin Cycle 300 coins
• Crosswords Plus 600 coins
• Brain Age: Concentration Training 600 coins
• Super Mario 3D Land 600 coins
• New Super Mario Bros. 2 600 coins
• Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D 600 coins
• Star Fox 64 3D 700 coins
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star 700 coins
• Kid Icarus: Uprising 700 coins

So yeah, shitload of stuff to choose from. What are you duders going to be picking when the service comes back on? I've got like a thousand coins so I can pretty much get at least one of anything, but what... Hm.

1750 coins will be spent this night!

100 coins short for the messenger bag. Ah well.

no interest in the physical stuff so just waiting to get my digital stuff.

only 500 coins so nothing crazy

good number of stuff too

correct. pretty sure there is a quick look of it. might be better just to watch that and save your coins for a full game

That Majora's Mask bag is pretty tempting. I'm short a couple hundred coins though.

Guess I'll pick up Super Metroid or Earthboumd when the site decides to load...

edit: FUCK. Golden Sun too? For some reason, I've been itchin to replay that lately. I've got some serious decisions to make here.

@bradbrains said:

I remember they played it kinda terribly, since none of them played much of the Wii Punch-Out, and their ability to pick up on boss attack patterns that aren't ones they already know from original Punch-Out was kinda nonexistent. Frankly, I'm considering getting it, since all of those NES Virtual Console titles can piss off, because I already bought the handful of NES games that aren't garbage back on the Wii. For me, it's between Doc Louis Punch-Out!!, and some of the eShop indie games for 3DS, and the various download codes for retail games for 3DS and Wii U.

It's kinda crazy value-wise that they're giving away download codes for retail games. Stuff like Game Boy Games costs around $5 USD on the eShop or 150 coins on Club Nintendo, but they're giving away downloadable retail games for like 600 or 700 coins which means they're only valuing them at like $20. Which is a good deal on 3DS games, and a crazy deal on Wii U games. Granted, the Wii U games seem to all be under performers, while the 3DS games are somewhat better though they're all from like the launch year of the 3DS or pretty close.

Also, Club Nintendo site is down currently? So yeah, I expect most of those physical rewards will sell out immediately because there are a bunch of weirdo Nintendo collectors that seem super obsessive about buying all of the junk that Nintendo puts up there (this round of junk seem slightly better, but it's still mostly stupid junk unless you really want a t-shirt or messenger bag or something). I'm fairly certain the greeting cards will still be left, because even collectors don't want those (or they already got their one copy of them for their collection like fucking 2 or 3 years ago when Nintendo first made that reward available).

Guys I need help! Majora's Mask Fierce Diety Puzzle or Limited Edition 2013 Platinum Poster Set?

@cerberus3dog: Posters. What the fuck are you going to do with a puzzle.

@corevi: Frame it, duder. Make it a poster basically.

This is a pretty cool going away gift from Club Nintendo... I've already grabbed Super Metroid and Golden Sun on the Wii U and my last grab will probably be Super Mario World.

And now for your reward...

YOUR ETERNAL REWARD...

clu clu land

Shouldn't be shocked that the site is down haha. Damn I forget how many coins I had.

@cerberus3dog: I'd go for the puzzle personally.

@geraltitude said:

*monkey bites your hand, you drop Clu Clu Land, Aladdin is trapped in the Cave of Wonders with Clu Clu Land*

Sorry, I don't know how I've ended up replying to you in 3 different threads in the past 10 minutes.

@jiggajoe14 said:

Don't worry, you have until something like March 31st to register any games you still have kicking around, and I think you have until June 30th to spend all your coins (after that date your coins and Club Nintendo cease to exist). But yeah, if you were hoping on ordering any of the physical rewards, a lot of those may already be sold out when the site comes back up, because there are weirdo Club Nintendo collectors that want to get 1 of everything even if it's total garbage. Which I'm fine with them doing when it's total garbage (like the greeting cards), but they're also the same people that made the 3DS XL charging cradle reward sold out in like a day or two and then Nintendo inexplicably never restocked it.

@bisonhero: Yeah I figured it wasn't something immediate. I just want the games (really wanting to try wonderful 101).

hahaha no worries. There are just so few of us active at once and so few active topics too. It's bound to happen! Sometimes I have to stop replying because I worry people think I'm just nagging them.

Glad someone replied to this anyway. Poor fucking Aladdin though. To be trapped in a Cave with Clu Clu and no way to play it.

I'm happy that they offered some good downloadable stuff. I got one physical thing that was good, and it was the 2011 or 2012 (I don't remember which) calendar with the really good artwork for each month.

This is a USA only thing right? The UK club Nintendo thing is a different thing (stars not coins etc?)

Man, I'm jealous, here in aus we get all the hottest goods like wrapping paper, ringtones and cloth!

Any word on when the UK will get new stuff? I have 5,200 stars to spend.

Meanwhile at Euro Club Nintendo...

If you don't have enough coins or don't care about the physical stuff, Buy Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!

@recspec said:

I mean, yeah, of all the things available, that is going to be the rarest going forward. All these Virtual Console and eShop games will still be available later for money, but fucking Doc Louis' Punch-Out is this weird thing that Nintendo had Next Level make that they seemingly never plan to make publicly available except through weird Club Nintendo channels.

Though if somebody never played Wii Punch-Out then I don't know if they're going to get quite as much out of it. It honestly should've just been DLC for that game, or some weird pack-in if you buy the Wii U port of Punch-Out.

I finally managed to get in. Secured my copy of Super Mario 3D Land (only ever played like 1/2 of this game originally) and the Majora's Mask bag.

I got the 3DS game card case to go with the one I got 3 years ago. I still have 645 coins. I'm tempted to get a second case.

I would have gotten the puzzle, but it's only 300 pieces.

I think it's kind of fucked up that they aren't offering a single Kirby game. Maybe they want people to be hungry for Kirby games so that people buy that Rainbow Curse game on the Wii U? Now that I say that, that seems like the only thing that makes sense.

Seriously though, throughout the past year or so, I noticed they were constantly rotating in Kirby games because they must really be underperforming on the Virtual Console (the number of times they offered a Mario or Zelda game free through Club Nintendo was almost nonexistent). Kirby's Dream Land 1, Kirby's Adventure, Kirby's Pinball Land, you name it. Everything but Kirby's Dream Land 2, which is the one that I'd actually like to get.

Also a bummer that I guess they can only give away Nintendo stuff for free. Wouldn't have minded picking up some Mega Man VC games.

Have they said whether they'll be doing gold/platinum rewards at the end of this?

Yeah, it's basically the same as any other year, except they're bumping the deadline up a lot sooner:

In order to reach Elite Status, you must earn 300 Coins (for Gold Status) or 600 Coins (for Platinum Status) between July 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015. Members who reach Elite Status will be able to choose a downloadable game from a wide selection of Nintendo 3DS and Wii U titles. Your free Elite Status gift will be available between April 1 and April 30, 2015. A list of the Elite Status 2015 gifts will be posted here once announced.

http://club2.nintendo.com/program-notice/

It sounds like you might just be able to take your pick from a list of 3DS and Wii U games similar to the current giant list on Club Nintendo? Or maybe they're holding some games back from the current list, and they're going to be some special shit that only the Gold/Platinum people get access to? I have a hard time imagining what that would be, because they're already giving away like all of the VC and eShop games I can think of that matter aside from the obvious lack of Kirby. So it may just be that you get your free pick of any one game or something.

Anyway, my suggestion to people would be to get physical rewards now because they may run out of stock, but don't spend coins on any VC or eShop games until April when we know what the Gold/Platinum status will get you. There's still plenty of time from April 1 - June 30 to cash in all your coins for various eShop and VC games.

My country never got Club Nintendo rewards. Bummer.

I'm pretty bummed that I'm 20 Coins short of those new Smash Bros posters. But the time I get those Coins, it'll be to late, and I'll get stuck with Wonderful 101 or some Virtual Console games. Or worse, NES Remix.

Edit: I checked, and my Wii U doesn't have enough space left to fit Wonderful 101, so that's out. I'm not ready to delete Tropical Freeze yet.

Is there any indication that Nintendo Europe is going to do this? I've banked over 1500 stars with 3 games left to register, but it's just the same shit on there it's been for the last year or two. Is there any update on this?

I had about 1800 coins because the only things I've ever bought on there were the two Game & Watch DS games and a DS case or something. So, I got the Link puzzle, the Zelda DS pouch thing, and the 18 cartridge case.

Since I bought my WiiU and a handful of games it turns out I have 3,400 coins just sitting there, hopefully Europe gets a similar deal then because I could end up with a nice haul of WiiU games and a few classics I've never tried.

And you thought the US was getting a raw deal compared to Japan. Europe still has the same crap we had for several years at this point, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't change until the service dies.

So I tried to log in to Club Nintendo and well...

EDIT: Hang the fuck on, if I lived in America I could buy TWO FULL 3DS GAMES with my 1500 points. Here in Europe what do I get?

FUCK ME. People were saying you can't even access the Wii online store, so why the hell can I still get points cards for it?! At least I can get these sick ringtones. Jesus.

Getting the Wonderful 101 for sure!

I have an extra Coins code for Super Smash Bros. for 3DS if someone wants to swap it for another, more obscure code.

The website is still sorta janky for me. I was able to see how many coins I currently have though so that's nice.

yea website is still wonky.

its not a big deal but I wanted stuff

OF COURSE these all go up about three days after I buy Earthbound for full price.

Considering I have 575 coins I need some help deciding what I should get, I've got it down to:

A Link to the Past

Majora's Mask

Golden Sun

Super Punch Out!!

Super Mario World

NES Remix

My coinage can only get me two, and I don't care about the physical rewards so which two should I get?

Try downloading Rusty's Real Deal Baseball (3DS) Steel Diver: Sub Wars (3DS) Pokemon Bank (3DS) Zen Pinball 2 (Wii U), those are all free and give points.

@bollard: The Wii online store works just fine. The guy in the other thread was mistaken, and he couldn't access it for weird internet reasons or something.

But yeah, it's a bummer that Club Nintendo varies so wildly from region to region. It sounds like they're killing Club Nintendo to replace it with a loyalty program that hopefully is more consistent across the different continents. And hopefully it will have better rewards than fucking ringtones and screen savers and greeting cards.

@dprotp: I don't have a 3DS, but Zen Pinball is a good idea!

@bisonhero: Ah I see, thank you for clarifying!

@bollard: If it makes you feel any better this is the first time in a long while that Nintendo updated their catalog where people in the US actually gave a fuck. I'd been sitting on 450 points for close to a year and a half and I remember the only game that was consistently on the prize list was Grill-Off with Ultra Hand for Wii.

I used those points to get me the 2015 3ds carrying case.

I've got an unopened copy of Pokemon Omega Ruby that I haven't registered yet if you want it. I'm at 600 points so another 30 isn't going to do a whole lot for me.