3DS Ambassadors: Don’t forget to grab your 10 free NES games!

3DS Ambassadors: Don’t forget to grab your 10 free NES games!

Hey, 3DS early adaptors! Remember when you bought that over-priced, gimmick-ridden, hyphen-inspiring Nintendo handheld for 80 bucks more than than you had to? Well, ‘Tendo’s well earned first round of ass-kissing has just begun!

Starting today, anyone that purchased a Nintendo 3DS before the hasty price drop (or, like me, cheated and got it at the cheaper price before the official discount) and managed to either install the appropriate firmware update or access the eShop before the appointed time should now have free access to ten, free, classic NES games for free.

Oh, and before I forget, these games are free.

For those of you that are eligible, the games can be accessed from the ‘settings and other’ section of the eShop under the ‘your downloads’ tab. I guess Nintendo really wants you to feel like you’ve had them all along.

“But wait a minute!” cries the hardcore Nintendo fan from from atop a pile of NES cartridges and Q-tips “I was promised 20 free games! Where are the free GBA games I so courageously earned in my ignorant purchase of a system with no games on it!?”

Well, those aren’t here just yet.

Yes, I’m afraid this is only the first wave of reinforcements in the war against, um… not having stuff to play.

The ten Game Boy Advance games promised to the less thrifty portable gamers out there are officially scheduled for release “sometime before the end of 2011”. Yeah, not a lot of help there.

Still, free Nintendo games, right? That’s pretty cool, isn’t it?