One of the best reasons to join Club Nintendo has been declared “Sold Out.”
The Game & Watch Collection is a Club Nintendo exclusive DS game that collects and improves upon three classic 1982 Game & Watch handheld games: Oil Panic, Donkey Kong and Green House.
Before Nintendo was in the handheld game business it was in the, well, handheld game business. Game & Watch games were ye olde all-in-one 2-D games with a mini monochromatic LED screen and a few buttons encapsulated by a plastic shell. You’d move an avatar across preset positions on a screen by pressing buttons. They had a very stop-action feel to it and were incredibly addictive (and repetitive). Some even had two screens with a top section that flipped down (very, very much like the DSi and DS Lite).
The nostalgic Club Nintendo release slightly improves upon the graphics of each of the games (don’t want to destroy that original stop-and-go feel) and sounds. It also includes built in alarm clock feature.
I’m not exactly certain when Club Nintendo ran out of G&W but it was certainly one of the – if not the – first items to go. Other rewards include Hanafuda Cards (800 coins), Animal Crossing and Mario Party Playing Cards (500), hat-shaped Mario Nintendo DS Game Rack (600), three different card and stylus sets (600 each), Nintendo DS Lite Case (Silver, 400), Wii Remote Holder (300) and The Legend of Zelda 3-Poster Series (350).
To get the game you had to earn 800 Club Nintendo coins which was done by registering eligible purchased Nintendo games, downloads and hardware. It was previously only available through the Japanese Club Nintendo (for 500 points). Now you’ll have to try and find it on eBay, Craigslist or some other game trading site where it can easily go for more than $40.
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Makes me glad I paid $40 for the Japanese version from Play-Asia. In the long run, it was cheaper than collecting all the points and it meant I got a guaranteed copy.