Do you want one of the coolest and rarest 3DS systems ever made? Well, too bad. You probably can’t get one. That’s because the Mario, Peach and Kinoko systems are only for Japan. Japan’s Club Nintendo members, if you want to get really specific. Those three 3DS units at the right there are part of a just announced Club Nintendo contest that will reward people who buy and register between two and ten 3DS games.

See, Club Nintendo works a little differently in Japan than it does in other regions…

Did you buy The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D yet for your 3DS? If you did, then hurry over to the Club Nintendo website. You have until 12am PST today (June 20, 2011) to register the game so you can get a free soundtrack. When Nintendo said this CD was going to be a limited edition, they meant it…

Europe is two days away from the 3DS launch and Nintendo has a most interesting proposition for them. European Club Nintendo members will have the opportunity to acquire a one-of-a kind t-shirt if they are among the first 3,000 people to register their consoles. This t-shirt will make them into a human videogame.

Game & Watch is back! But, not everyone can get it. See, you have to be a member of a super exclusive, special club to even think about getting your own replica of the 1980 handheld game and even if you do join, you have to earn a lot of points. That’s right – it’s a new Club Nintendo reward. One of two new rewards, actually. Start buying those first party DS and Wii games, so you can save up enough points for Game & Watch: Ball or the slightly-less-desirable DS pouch…

Just a friendly reminder: In case you have not yet registered any one of your Nintendo games of game systems at Club Nintendo, you might not want to wait too long to do it.

By registering your new Nintendo game system – including DSi XL, DSi, DS Lite and Wii – at the Club Nintendo web site, you automatically get a free 90 days added to the 1-year warranty on your hardware.

Club Nintendo, Nintendo’s reward program, is wrapping up what it calls its “year” in terms of Gold and Platinum Status rewards.

In order to earn the 2010 reward, Club Nintendo members must earn either 300 Coins (Gold Status) or 600 Coins (Platinum Status) by June 30, 2010. The nice part about these annual freebies is that they are in addition to any other Club Nintendo item you might have already claimed in the past 12 months.

Nintendo recently updated its Club Nintendo rewards, adding a DS game, A WiiWare game and (yawn) another poster set.

Club Nintendo is Nintendo’s way of rewarding loyabl customers who also compelte surveys about their gaming experience. By inputting game and console registration codes, you earn Club Nintendo Coins that can be redeemed for Club-exclusive, Nintendo-themed products.

Nintendo has a history of offering exclusive games as Club Nintendo rewards, but until now they’ve only been DS games. The latest Club Nintendo Japan reward is the 50 point WiiWare game Wii de Ultra Hand. It’s based on the 1967 Nintendo Ultra Hand toy.

The original Ultra Hand plastic toy came with three balls and stands to place the balls on. It made cameo appearances in Wario: Master of Disguise (DS) and Mario Power Tennis (GameCube, Wii).

Wii de Ultra Hand, on the other hand, involves grabbing meat in place of balls. The Wii remote and nunchuk serve as the two handles for the virtual Ultra Hand, and players move the handles in and out to grab meat off a grill before it burns and place it on a plate. You can play it alone or with a single friend.

The 50 points does not, unfortunately, get you a replica Ultra Hand. It only gives you a code to download the WiiWare game…

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…

As of this writing Sony still hasn’t offered a practical solution to everybody’s growing UMD problem. With the launch of the PSPgo only days away, we still don’t know how or if we will be able to enjoy our UMD based games if we choose to purchase a PSPgo. Well lets take our minds off that issue for a second and talk about a new promotion Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe is having called PSPgo Rewards.

PSPgo Rewards is Sony’s way of easing us into the digital download only process the PSPgo will offer. It’s offering three free downloadable games from a list of 17 available titles that includes Wipeout Pure, echochrome, Killzone: Liberation and Patapon .