My Nintendo Rewards Adds Classic N64 Game Keychains
The successor to Nintendo’s defunct Club Nintendo service, My Nintendo is a loyalty program that allows avid purchasers and players of Nintendo products to collect and redeem points for digital and physical knickknacks. While the service has traditionally focused on digital goodies, Nintendo saw fit to introduce small physical rewards in 2020, abruptly discontinuing them in 2021. However, as of March 2022, a number of physical prizes returned to the My Nintendo site.
Nintendo seems to be particularly interested in catering to those nostalgic for the late 90s; after adding a selection of Nintendo 64 titles to the Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, Nintendo is now offering a collection of four Nintendo 64-themed keychains. Meant to depict the rectangular boxes in which the games originally came packaged, fans can now carry with them replicas of Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, Super Mario 64, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time game boxes, a perfect method to commemorate a console which sparked a lifetime gaming obsession for many.
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Split into two packages, fans will have to accumulate a total of 1,000 Platinum Coins in order to secure the complete set of four. Though it might come across as relatively obtuse, the My Nintendo service uses two separate proprietary currencies in the form of Gold and Platinum Coins. Gold Coins seem to be more valuable, as they’re often earned by purchasing digital games through Nintendo’s virtual storefront. Platinum Coins, however, are usually earned by playing Nintendo mobile games, and, while Nintendo has pledged to cover shipping costs on orders of over fifty dollars, keychain aficionados are, in addition to
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