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Club Nintendo

Club Nintendo (stylized as club. nintendo) was a customer loyalty program and magazine that was provided by Nintendo. The loyalty program was free to join and provided rewards in exchange for consumer feedback and loyalty to purchasing official Nintendo products. Members of Club Nintendo earned credits or "coins" by submitting codes found on Nintendo products and systems, which could be traded in for special edition items only available on Club Nintendo. Rewards included objects such as playing cards, tote bags, controllers, downloadable content, and warranty extensions on select Nintendo products.

On January 20, 2015, it was announced that Club Nintendo would be discontinued in North America on June 30, 2015, and in Europe and Japan on September 30, 2015, due to the launch of My Nintendo the following year. Flipnote Studio 3D later became available to all North American Club Nintendo members for free for a limited time, and users who signed up to the European version of the new loyalty program during the launch period received Flipnote Studio 3D for free.

On March 17, 2015, after suddenly announcing their business partnership venture with DeNA, Nintendo stated that they were working with them on a new cross-platform membership service called My Nintendo to supersede Club Nintendo for the Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch, alongside other devices such as tablets, smartphones and PCs. It was initially launched in Japan on March 17, 2016, alongside Nintendo's first mobile title, Miitomo.

In Europe, Club Nintendo was the name of three magazines which started publishing in 1989. The European version was published in several languages, and there were separate publications for Germany, Spain, Greece, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and South Africa. All were later discontinued and eventually replaced. The last German issue was published in August 2002.

Club Nintendo was the name of the official Nintendo magazine in Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile.

In Mexico, The magazine was founded in December 1991 by José "Pepe" Sierra and Gustavo "Gus" Rodríguez, which had previously worked on a bulletin for one of Nintendo's official stores in Mexico City. It was the first magazine in Mexico about Nintendo made by fans of video games, and quickly became the leading game magazine in Mexico. In January 2015 it changed to an online-only format, with December 2019 being its last issue.

In Australia Club Nintendo was a magazine that started in 1991 and was published by Catalyst Publishing in Melbourne. Roughly 31 pages in length, it featured very few screenshots of games. Australia eventually received their own version of Nintendo Magazine System by which time this magazine had ceased. Catalyst Publishing later took over Nintendo Magazine System in 1996 from the previous publisher.

The Club Nintendo loyalty program offers rewards to members who collect points (sometimes referred to as "Stars" or "Star Points", the program is also commonly known as the Stars Catalogue; the North American Club uses "Coins") which are gained primarily by purchasing and registering certain first-party hardware and software titles by Nintendo. Points are also awarded for the purchase of select third-party titles, and can also be obtained by participating in surveys, inviting others to become a Club Nintendo member or even simply visiting a web site.

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