Nintendo reveals new Club Nintendo prizes

For those of you who are unaware, Nintendo has a program called Club Nintendo that allows users to earn prized by registering games and answering product surveys. Nintendo gets valuable consumer information and you get hanafuda cards and Mario hats. And now, folders and greeting cards.

An email from Nintendo has revealed five new items, all made out of (hopefully strong) paper stock. For 250 Club Nintendo coins, you can get one of three separate folder/bookmark sets, two of which star the heroes of the Super Mario franchise, and one of which celebrates the villains. Each of the sets comes with three folders and three bookmarks If you've got an extra 50 Club Nintendo coins to spare in this economy, you can buy one of two greeting card sets. One stars Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi, and the other stars a trio of Nintendogs. The greeting card sets have 12 cards total in each.

So there you have it--greeting cards that will come too late for Christmas and school supplies that will almost definitely get you beat up. We appreciate the effort, Nintendo, but stick to DS games and posters.

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For those of you who are unaware, Nintendo has a program called Club Nintendo that allows users to earn prized by registering games and answering product surveys. Nintendo gets valuable consumer information and you get hanafuda cards and Mario hats. And now, folders and greeting cards.

An email from Nintendo has revealed five new items, all made out of (hopefully strong) paper stock. For 250 Club Nintendo coins, you can get one of three separate folder/bookmark sets, two of which star the heroes of the Super Mario franchise, and one of which celebrates the villains. Each of the sets comes with three folders and three bookmarks If you've got an extra 50 Club Nintendo coins to spare in this economy, you can buy one of two greeting card sets. One stars Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi, and the other stars a trio of Nintendogs. The greeting card sets have 12 cards total in each.

So there you have it--greeting cards that will come too late for Christmas and school supplies that will almost definitely get you beat up. We appreciate the effort, Nintendo, but stick to DS games and posters.

The images for all of the new products are below. Any Club Nintendo users planning on picking any of them up?

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