Nintendo WiiWare reward scheme begins in October

The Connection Ambassador Promotion is designed to encourage friends and family to get connected with their Wii.

Nintendo announced today the Connection Ambassador Promotion, a rewards scheme for loyal fans of WiiWare, will start in Europe this October and will allow players to become Ambassadors by encouraging friends and family to get connected with their Wii.

The Ambassador, as well as the player they help connect, will both receive 500 Wii Points for connecting one person. When the Ambassador helps connect 20 people (which is the maximum number for the reward), the total amount of Wii Points received will equal 10,000, which can be spent on WiiWare games.

The rewards don't stop there. If the Ambassador helps 10 people connect they become Connection Master Gold, enabling them to download all Nintendo first party NES games for free on Virtual Console. If, however, they help 20 people connect, they will be given Connection Master Platinum status and will be able to download for free all first party and third party NES, SNES and N64 games on Virtual Console.