Club Nintendo
| Club Nintendo
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| description | Computer game magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Nintendo game consoles |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Computec Media (from 2001) (Germany) |
| First edition | 1989 |
| attitude | 2002 |
| Frequency of publication | bi-monthly |
Club Nintendo incl. Magazine was a free membership club or loyalty program from Nintendo with a focus on the young Nintendo gaming community. It dealt with games and devices from Nintendo and presented them to the young clientel Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and, finally, the N64 console.
From 1989 to the end of 2000 the magazine was published by Nintendo itself, from issue 01/2001 onwards the Computec publishing house took over the magazine. Club Nintendo was the official Nintendo magazine in German-speaking countries during its existence. In contrast to other game magazines, games were not rated and were always described positively.
history
As early as 1988, the Play Nintendo newsletter was published for members of the Nintendo fan club ! From which the magazine Club Nintendo emerged in 1989. In the first year only three issues appeared, from 1990 a new issue was published every two months. Editor-in-chief was initially Ron Lakos , who left Nintendo in 1994 and switched to Sony . He was replaced by Claude Moyse . From 1991 comics with numerous Nintendo characters, including Super Mario in particular, were included in the magazine . From 1998 the magazine was also published in Austria and Switzerland . In 1999 the previous comic was replaced by a comic called "N-Gang".
In the first few years, every magazine had a postage-free, detachable postcard to be accepted as a member of Club Nintendo. There you could enter your full name and address and send this postcard with a prefabricated recipient to Club Nintendo in Großostheim in order to receive membership including a card in credit card format . The cards were dark blue with a green text box with membership number and name on them.
At the beginning of 2001 there was an internal restructuring at Nintendo Europe. The Club Nintendo magazine has been completely redesigned, among other things, the comic was dropped and the number of pages was reduced. The magazine was outsourced to the Computec publishing company and the long-time editor-in-chief Claude Moyse was replaced by Hans Ippisch .
The Club Nintendo magazine was finally discontinued with issue 04/2002. Subscribers were referred to the N zone in a letter .
Magazines with the name Club Nintendo also existed outside of the German-speaking countries .
Club Nintendo bonus system
From 2003 onwards, a bonus system was operated by the Nintendo company in Japan under the name Club Nintendo . It followed in Europe in 2006 and in the USA in 2008. The bonus system allowed members to receive points using code cards that came with every Nintendo game they bought. These could then be exchanged for games or merchandising items from Nintendo.
The traditional Club Nintendo bonus system was officially deactivated on October 2nd, 2015. The deadline for Nintendo eShop titles that belong to the star system ended on April 20, 2015. After that, Club Nintendo login was no longer possible. The Club Nintendo star system was replaced by the My Nintendo system from March 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.horizont.net/aktuell/haben/pages/protected/Ron-S.-Lakos-verstaeckt-Xbox-Marketing-Team_61666.html
- ↑ Interview with Moyse on classic-zone.de ( Memento from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://kirby.webnwork.com/literatur/clubnintendod.html
- ↑ http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/24049
- ↑ http://www.kultboy.com/Club-Nintendo-Deutschland-Zeitschrift/21/
- ↑ http://www.mariowiki.com/Club_Nintendo
- ↑ http://www.tvgc.de/nintendo-beendet-club-nintendo-programm/ Nintendo ends Club Nintendo star program