So in my opinion, Club Nintendo's catalog has sucked recently.

[lusterkid]

It really amazes me how popular franchises like Mario and Zelda are so heavily neglected when it comes to the rewards catalog.

Pilotwings
This is probably the only thing I'd pick up, but I'm holding out for the new batch.

Vegas Stakes
Listen Nintendo, only a handful of casino based games have been successful. They're probably not what your audience is really just captured by in the first place.

Clu Clu Land
The majority of people who have a Wii probably don't even use it. A lot of people who own a Wii most likely don't even know what Club Nintendo is.

Pop up Pursuit
I'm interested, but again, putting it on the Wii was a bad choice.

Tokyo Crash Mobs
What were you going for in putting this on the catalog?

Kirby's Pinball Land
I can see this one being one that people pick up because it's a reputable series.

Metroid II
I think this is probably another good option, though I'll be honest, the graphics kill my eyes. This goes for Kirby's Pinball, too. I'm not too obsessed with graphics quality but it can make the game a lot more enjoyable.

Starship Defense
I don't have any comments about this one, really.

In conclusion, I'd just like to say to Nintendo; give us the things that made you popular in the first place. We want the Mario Games, the Zelda games, Pokemon.... Tokyo Crash Mobs and Vegas Stakes are not what people imagine when they think Nintendo.

 

[eric bush]

I agree, they should focus on their cash heavy franchises and come up with some cool rewards around those before hitting the bottom of the barrel...

 

[Spak]

They used to have physical versions of Game & Watch Collection (1 & 2) for the DS you could spend coins on (I spent all my valuable coins on the 2nd one), but those went off the site a while ago. I agree the choices have recently been less than optimal.

 

[robotman5]

i agree it hasn't been the greatest for awhile now.

 

[Mario & Sonic Guy]

The Club Nintendo rewards nowadays are just plain sad. There's hardly anything worth buying now outside of certain digital games.

 

[Moydow]

wait a minute they give away actual games on the US Club Nintendo? Over here we just get mobile ringtones and Wii Shop points (to be fair the ringtones and wallpapers are cheap - one Wii U game would get you all of them). Occasionally we get something interesting, like the Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack, a replica Game and Watch, and this:

You very rarely see actual games on there, and even then they're just GBA games (I saw Mario Power Tennis on there recently for 7500 stars or so). and don't get me started on the fiasco over the platinum rewards last year, that doesn't even exist here. I wouldn't say no to a free Donkey Kong Country Returns or whatever they gave out.

 

[ToxicWolf1132]

Yea, they've defintiely been better. I remember first joining and seeing games like Dillion's Rolling Western (an excellent eshop game if I do say so myself.). I do think that they occasionally still have some good stuff, like the 3D Classics Kid Icarus a few months ago. But overall, it could stand to have some improvement

 

[PlayR489]

I would have to agree with everything people said. I joined the service because I could get a free copy of Pokémon X, and I already had the Y Version, so I thought it would be cool to. The only GOOD reward I got was a Luigi hat carrying case for my 3DS. I'm currently waiting for the "Platinum Rewards" that will most likely stink. (AGAIN) The case is actually pretty nice.
EDIT: The image did NOT post. Sorry.

The Club Nintendo rewards nowadays are just plain sad. There's hardly anything worth buying now outside of certain digital games.

Yeah, I normally just buy a game if I see something I am somewhat interested in. I got Kirby's Dream Land, Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters, and some other DSI shop game.
EDIT: These seem nice. https://club.nintendo.com/rewards-details/a/45131.do
I think that some rewards are OK at best.

 

[Spak]

Platinum rewards only started to be pretty bad in 2014. Before that, Platinum got you a Mario hat (2009), a figurine with all of the Mario characters (2010), a Mario Badge Set (2011), a set of Platinum Mario Playing Cards (2012), and a Majora's Mask Soundtrack (2013). Last year was the first year there were no physical rewards for anyone achieving Elite status.

 

[finalark]

I think the last thing I saw that was worthwhile was A Link to the Past. I guess the Smash 4 posters were pretty cool.

 

[PlayR489]

Platinum rewards only started to be pretty bad in 2014. Before that, Platinum got you a Mario hat (2009), a figurine with all of the Mario characters (2010), a Mario Badge Set (2011), a set of Platinum Mario Playing Cards (2012), and a Majora's Mask Soundtrack (2013). Last year was the first year there were no physical rewards for anyone achieving Elite status.

Last year people complained about the soundtrack because they wanted something big like the figurine. The only reason the figurine was given was because I think 2010 was Mario's 25th anniversary, so they wanted to do something special for all of the fans.

 

[ThatNintendoDude]

I would be cool if they offered more soundtracks. I love game music, and I'd much rather spend coins on soundtracks that aren't available elsewhere than digital games I have little interest in.

 

[finalark]

I'm perfectly fine with digital games, although that might just be because I ****ing love video games and miss my old collection of older titles, but IMO they just don't release very many that are worthwhile.

 

[KRBAY]

Tthe ONLY thing I've gotten besides the soundtrack and Mewtwo on Club Nintendo is Kirby's Dream Land 3, for obvious reasons. (hint: Look at my main.) I hope the rewards get better.

 

[Mario & Sonic Guy]

It appears that Club Nintendo will be calling it quits at the end of June for North America. That might explain the lack of stuff to get now.

Nintendo announced this information pretty recently.

 

[ThatNintendoDude]

It appears that Club Nintendo will be calling it quits at the end of June for North America. That might explain the lack of stuff to get now.

Nintendo announced this information pretty recently.

That's a bummer, but we can't say that we didn't see the writing on the wall. As the thread states in the title, it's really gone downhill recently. Hopefully some cool stuff gets put up for the "February Blowout", and the new loyalty program is something involving a unified account system (a man can dream, right?).

But if it's called "New Club Nintendo" I might have a stroke.

 

[finalark]

It appears that Club Nintendo will be calling it quits at the end of June for North America. That might explain the lack of stuff to get now.

Nintendo announced this information pretty recently.

Well, I guess I better spend those coins now then.

That's a bummer.

 

[KRBAY]

Well, I guess I better spend those coins now then.

That's a bummer.

You should wait.

They said that they'll be adding more games, including physical items, to the rewards store in Feburary. You do want to redeem any leftover codes as quickly as you can, however.

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

 

[JimmyTheCaterpillar]

Thank goodness I didn't spend my remaining coins just to spend them, then.

Bummer about the discontinuation, but really looking forward to February now at least.

 

[Herr Director]

The CN site is currently down, but IGN just shared the final list of Club Nintendo physical rewards/downloads. There's some pretty sweet deals on here:

Nintendo's selection of available games not only include Virtual Console titles, but also full retail downloads.

• 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

For Wii download, there is:

• 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

And 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

I've always wanted to try Golden Sun, so I'll def be grabbing that. I'm really hoping I can get one of those awesome Majora bags though.

 

[finalark]

Earthbound, F-Zero X and MM here I come. Also, I've always wanted to give Star Tropics a go, it always looked like something I might enjoy. So I guess I'll be nabbing Star Tropics II while I'm there.

Good thing I have around 600 coins saved.

 

[KRBAY]

Finally, a poster set that I'll actually enjoy. hype.

Also will get NES Remix.

 

[Moydow]

That's a pretty decent-looking list. Hopefully NoE has something similar planned, right now the most impressive things on there are the G&W replica and the Mario golf balls.

 

[finalark]

The website is kinda operable right now. At least you can see everything they're offering. Don't buy anything, though. I tried to get Earthbound and the site crashed while it was processing my request. Now it's telling me that all 620 of my coins are gone, hopefuly this will be fixed in the morning.

 

[Slattman92]

What isn't listed above is this super awesome Majora's Mask messenger bag. Currently it is still in stock (I just got my order in a few minutes ago), and it costs 800 coins.

That might be the only physical item worth getting right now though...

 

[Khao]

Man, I really can't decide what I want.

I'd rather not get a VC game when I can get a new game instead, but I'm kinda considering going for Earthbound on Wii U, simply because it's one of the few major classics I haven't played. I can perfectly just emulate it and get literally the same experience (could play on the same TV with the same controller and sitting on the same spot on either PC or Wii U) but actually owning the thing would be nice.

Then there's the downloadable games I'd like to play: Dr. Luigi, NES Remix, Dillon's Rolling Western, Harmo Knight... Got enough for two of those. I'd probably go for NES Remix and Harmo Knight.

Then, I could always just go "Screw it" and get DKCR or even Game & Wario. Would have to get that and nothing else.

Everything else in the list is either something I've already played before, or something I'm not really interested infor different reasons.

I really wish I hadn't gotten anything the past couple of months out of desperation. Could have like 900 coins right now. It's not like I got anything worthwhile.

 

[finalark]

All I know is that I really want to get Earthbound and Mario Party 2, but Club Nintendo's website refuses to work. I've gotten close, but there's always some error before I can get my orders processed.

 

[Firus]

I'm definitely going to get Earthbound, but I've got 600 coins to use (it'll be 650 once I register Omega Ruby) and can't decide what else to spend them on. Part of the problem is that pretty much all of the other games I'm interested in are ones I already have. So I'm biding my time hoping that something will jump out at me.

 

[Zink Imp]

I HAVE OVER 1500 COINS.
WHAT DO.

 

[Mario & Sonic Guy]

Today begins the final month that you can register your Nintendo products with Club Nintendo. Just keep note that all products that are released after 1/20 are ineligible.

 

[Atrabilious]

At least you guys have games to spend your points on.

You know what I can spend my 4250 stars on in the UK catalogue? Ringtones and desktop wallpapers. Oh and giftwrapping paper. I can't even believe they're trying to sell ringtones and desktop wallpapers as a reward on our store, it quite literally boggles my mind.

I'm pretty sure I have codes lying around for another 500 stars or so but what's the point of even redeeming them now? The stuff on there is so rubbish that I'd rather conserve space in my home than actually own any of it.

Even if the games on the store were old and/or mediocre they'd probably be worth while, if only for the prospect of finding a hidden gem or something.