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Nintendo promised us that the North America chapter of Club Nintendo would be available by the end of the 2008 year and sure enough, only 15 days until 2009, Club Nintendo is now officially live.

If you have already signed up for a “My Nintendo” account, you can use that login information and anything you already registered on that account will be transferred over to you Club Nintendo account, meaning you will have coins to spend from the get-go.

If you don’t already have a My Nintendo account, all you need to do is fill out your name, age, and email address (also choosing a username and password) and you’re all set to start registering those Nintendo products for coins. An “Intend to Buy” survey allows you to earn an additional 10 coins when you register your purchased (now previously intended-to-buy) game.

Coin values for Nintendo games (specific point values for systems weren’t detailed) are as follows:

• Wii games = 50 Coins
• Nintendo DS games = 30 Coins
• Wii Shop Channel games/Wii Channels = 10 Coins

As for spending your coinage, Nintendo already has a few items available for you to “purchase” although none are as sharp as that Super Famicom Wii controller Nintendo gave to the Japanese clubbers (Japanese get all the luck). There is at least one decent item on the list - the official North American version of the DS Game & Watch Collection. The Game & Watch Collection contains three Game & Watch Gallery games for 800 coins.

A poster on NeoGaf took this screen shot of all the prizes earlier today, yes they are the official prizes:

Way to finally include North America, Nintendo!

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