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12-inch MacBook
“No fan, one port, all nerve — it flew off on butterfly wings.”
“Traded coins for tote bags and playing cards; the happiest checkout receipt of gaming.”
Club Nintendo was Nintendo's free-to-join customer loyalty program and magazine, rewarding fans with coins for submitting codes from their official Nintendo purchases. Those coins could be traded for special edition items available nowhere else — playing cards, tote bags, controllers, downloadable content, even warranty extensions. It turned buying games into a small treasure hunt, and people loved it for exactly tha
On January 20, 2015, Nintendo announced the program would end on June 30, 2015 in North America, and September 30, 2015 in Europe and Japan, making way for My Nintendo the following year. North American members received Flipnote Studio 3D for free as a send-off, and early European signups to the new program got it too. It bowed out not in disgrace but in succession — a program retired to make room for what came next.
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“No fan, one port, all nerve — it flew off on butterfly wings.”
“First 64-bit phone, last with Jobs in its bones, and the button that knew your finger.”
“It brought back the Start menu, and for that we forgave everything else.”