DS #XXXX: Game & Watch Collection (USA)

[elfsander]

You can't buy the G&W in a store, you can only get it by earning enough club nintendo points (registering bought games if it contains a card with points)
Then you can trade in points for a gift, being stupid wallpapers till an exclusive club nintendo only game.

Pitty Europe has for a long time there Nintendo Star points (now called nintendo points) to trade in such stuff, but we never had anything descent exclusive like a g&w game.

WRONG We had the Legend of Zelda Collectors Edition (All NES and N64 games + TWW demo on one GC disc) But that about sums it up. Also it's still called star points

 

[Lumstar]

They aren't called star points in the US.

And the screenshots in that previous post are indeed from the (U) version. Notice the title screen date reads "2008", rather than "2006" as the (J) version does.

 

[DjoeN]

that was nothing special, those zelda discs, as far as i remmeber the us could get them to somehow.

There where a few things special (Limited edition The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess statue) and worth, but mostly it's just crap we get.

Right just checked, it's still stars we get

Then again, most other stuff like all that wiifit stuff and other stuff, you can get free if you keep bugging those chicks on nintendo stands.
(At least i get lotsa cool stuff everytime i see promotion stands of nintendo, i walk to them and ask promo stuff, even if the say, the don't have
any i keep asking till the give

)
Most promo stuff the give is from the Nintendo catalog

the name a few things i collected last year (2008) by just asking (and i have always my 2 kids with me, so i get more then 1)
- coffeemug from zelda
- coffeemug from mario
- winter hat and those sportscaps
- mobile phone socks from super mario bross
- pokémon sportsbags
- WiiFit Dextrose candy
- Mario T-Shirt
- Ds Stylus
- DS cartridge protectors

2009 just started, but i'm already looking where a promo stand can be to collect more

cause the starcatalog suxs:

ringtones, backgrounds, icons, sound, mp3 tunes, etc...
Once and awhile something usefull on a page
BUT
nothing Europe exclusive!

 

[Goshogun1]

I dunno, but I think I am going to stick with the GBA Game and Watch collection. This is a little too retro for me. At least they had updated versions, with the option of using the old versions too.

 

[cupajoe]

I dunno, but I think I am going to stick with the GBA Game and Watch collection. This is a little too retro for me. At least they had updated versions, with the option of using the old versions too.

The GBA Game and Watch collection was far superior, but the ds one is still a charming little package.

 

[darnoc]

i love this game

 

[zidane_genome]

In the US, they are called COINS on the Club Nintendo site... and the icon is a very updated 8bit looking Super Mario Bros. coins....

I'll just download this one and save my coins for a better 'gift' later...

 

[kreatosoupa]

Oh, I still have my Donkey Kong G&W. Must have played a billion hours on that one. Nice to see these games come back...

 

[layzieyez]

I totally envied my cousin in the 80's because he had the Oil Panic and Green House games. Growing up poor sucks. I'm glad that I can play these games again.

 

[Shryquill]

Donkey Kong, Oil Panic and Green House.

hey is ur sig its supposed to be "arnt you a little short to be a storm trooper
on more important new
this is cool

 

[Just Joe]

hey is ur sig its supposed to be "arnt you a little short to be a storm trooper
on more important new
this is cool

With regards to the sig, it's right. He was a big fat storm trooper.

As for the game, while I love retro, this is just too much. I loved these games when I was a kid, but when I played the original Japanese dump, it spoilt the nostalgia. I should have left well alone and kept the fond, rose tinted memories, which was of hours spent playing some great games in the car. Now the harsh realities of time have ravaged their purity. No longer can I use these games as an example of how games of my youth were so simple and yet so much better than the games of today.

However, Mario Kart on the SNES is still the fucking dog-bollocks!

 

[xxRAG3]

SOMEONE LISTENED TO ME! YAY!

 

[Galacta]

Theres no difference between them. If there was a US Game and Watch Collection 2, theres a difference.

 

[Shebang]

It's scary how much fun you can have with this.
The games are so simple, they're addicting.

When these games were "current" it was state of the art

I remember long transatlantic flights when we played these for hours...

shebang

 

[BlueStar]

Why is it xxxx?

It's only a Club Nintendo release and not a "real" release such as, for example, Animal Boxing, which came out over a month ago. You have to get this has a lame-upon-lame prize for paying for a plethora of other Nintendo materials first, then you can play, golly, three different game and watch titles in their maddeningly bleeping LCD-esque glory. I just hope the NDS doesn't catch fire trying to gather itself the raw processing power needed to run these THREE G&W titles! Any more and it might've caught fire! I certainly can see why it's a "collection" when it contains three--not two--massively epic G&W titles. If they had gone with four, it would have to be called maybe the "Game and Watch Mega Super Ultra Complete Pack Collection Plus Extra".

From the looks of it, there's a lot more depth to these games than Animal Boxing can dream of.

 

[dagreenone]

I've got the points for this but I'm certainly not getting it. Hopefully Nintendo will throw something really good up for me to spend my points on.

 

[Orangegamer]

this is dodgey
cause when i was in school
i went on my daily ds roms website(not saying which one)
and then it said game and watch collection was there
so i downloaded it
then when i got home i checked the website again
lol
and guess what???
it was gone...
lol
isn't that werid or what?

 

[Raven Darkheart]

this is dodgey
cause when i was in school
i went on my daily ds roms website(not saying which one)
and then it said game and watch collection was there
so i downloaded it
then when i got home i checked the website again
lol
and guess what???
it was gone...
lol
isn't that werid or what?

pulled cause it wasnt a commercial release

 

[updowners]

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[jalaneme]

There's a club nintendo in the U.S. now?

*Shock*

you should have a heart attack when it's released in europe, then you can be shocked.