Club Nintendo is a program offered in most of the world, but only Japan seems to get the really awesome stuff. Since I buy so much Nintendo stuff, this past year, for free, I could have had a blinged out Mario Kart wheel or a stylish Mario hat to help myself get laid even less get delivered to my door. Alas, I forgot to actually make my decision in time so they gave me three calendars, either assuming I really want to watch the year pass by three times or that I actually have friends to give calendars to. The truth is that I actually have 8 calendars up in my apartment, so they were actually more useful to me than any of the other stuff. Just less blinged out.
Besides yearly presents for buying lots of stuff, you accumulate points and can spend them on goodies. But while collections of Game & Watch are pretty neat, they aren’t exactly something I totally crave. Neither were the Tingle themed balloon fight or the Power Rangers-esque “shout into your DS to play” games something I wanted. I could have gotten various book ends, pins or pencil cases, but I decided to pick up the first volume of the Nintendo Sound Selection instead.
Titled “Peach” and subtitled “Healing Music”, or perhaps the other way around, this baby has 26 tracks that I dare say actually soothe the beast of a man that I am. Ranging from Animal Forest to Zelda, eight Zelda tracks actually, they even threw in some Famicom games that I don’t know dick about, but the music is pleasant nonetheless. It has become my unofficial “time to kick back and study all relaxed like” music. It’s a really sweet arrangement of tracks and while the first twenty-two tracks seem to be the originals, the last four seem to be recordings done by staff members of Nintendo’s music department. They sound pretty damn awesome.
There are two more volumes currently available: Bowser and Luigi. I forget what their “subtitles” are. Actually, I forget if I ever knew in the first place. Bowser is on the way from Nintendo now but it looks like I am a couple points short of getting Luigi in my hands. Guess I’ll have to buy more Nintendo products.
Dang.
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