Club Nintendo

Club Nintendo was a 1989-2002 published, German -language computer games magazine, which reported its games for game consoles exclusively through the company Nintendo and. From 1989 to the end of 2000, the magazine of Nintendo itself was issued of Issue 01 /2001 took over Computec Verlag magazine. Club Nintendo was during its existence, the official Nintendo magazine in Germany. Unlike other games magazines games received no votes and were always described positive.

Since 2006 a bonus system from Nintendo is operated in Europe on the Internet under the name of Club Nintendo. The system started before 2003 in Japan and in the U.S. later in 2008. Through the bonus system members of the club can use code cards that beiligen each item purchased game from Nintendo, get points. These can then be exchanged for games or merchandise from Nintendo.

History

The Club Nintendo magazine first appeared in 1989, bimonthly published a new edition. Editor in Chief was initially Ron Lakos, the Nintendo in 1994 left and switched to Sony. He was then replaced by Claude Moyse. From 1991, in the magazine Comics with many Nintendo characters, including contain, in particular with Super Mario. From 1998 to the magazine appeared in Austria and Switzerland. 1999, the previous comic was replaced by an "N -speed " said comic.

In early 2001 it came to internal restructuring of Nintendo Europe. The Club Nintendo magazine has been completely revised, including fell off the comic book and the page number has been reduced. The magazine was outsourced to Computec Verlag and the longtime editor in chief Claude Moyse replaced by Hans Ippisch.

The Club Nintendo magazine was finally set final with issue 04 /2002. Subscribers were referred in a letter to the N- Zone.

Even outside the German-speaking magazines existed with the name of Club Nintendo.