Published by Nintendo, Developed by Nintendo

Genres: Simulation (4 players)

US release date: Sep 15th, 2002 | EU release date: Sep 24th, 2004

Animal Crossing

Step into the world of Animal Crossing, where villagers live their everyday lives in time with an actual 24-hour clock.

To become a part of the thriving village community, you'll get a job, buy a house and interact with other villagers, some of which can be controlled by friends and family. As you collect furnishings for your own house, check out what other villagers have collected for their houses. Build relationships by talking to other villagers, helping them with tasks and writing letters back and forth. Throughout the game, you'll collect an assortment of items and artifacts and different plants and animals. To ensure it will be a desirable place for people to live, help to keep your village beautiful.

Features

Visit the village often throughout the day, because different activities happen at different times; plus, special things sometimes happen on holidays.
Interact with others-up to four other players can move into the village and take turns playing in a shared village, cooperating and competing on one game pak.
Swap Memory Cards with friends who have the game and travel to their villages to interact with different characters there. In other villages, players find different assortments of items and build new relationships with different groups of villagers.
Pay off and improve your house by returning daily, adding floors and new furnishings; and watch how other human characters improve their houses, which adds a competitive element.
Experience the game's unique and engrossing sense of community as you join villagers in actual time.
Relive many classic NES games included in Animal Crossing, which players will discover, earn or get passwords for the games through Animal Crossing-e cards.
Check back regularly or the virtual residence will become overrun by weeds and cockroaches. And don't dare try to reset the game!
Connect to a Game Boy Advance using a NINTENDO GAMECUBE Game Boy Advance cable. Once connected, players can travel from the village to a remote island, and find exotic items.
Hook up the new e-Reader through your Game Boy Advance and swipe Animal Crossing-e cards to acquire game tips, special or rare items or even special messages from the characters living at Animal Crossing.
Experience the all-new N-Port feature. Download a classic NES game to your Game Boy Advance. Then disconnect and take the game with you!

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86%

Very good

Animal Crossing was first released on the Nintendo 64 in Japan as "Animal Forest", and was released as an enhanced port to the Gamecube in 2001. Animal Crossing is a real-time village simulation complete with animal villagers and plenty of distractions and gameplay to last...read full review

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BFD said:

Animal Crossing is an absolutely amazing game!

wiiman2 said:

I think animal crossing is the best life game invented in the history of video games!

wii man2 said:

I wonder why me and BFD are the only ones posting for Animal Crossing. This game IS VERY popular.

I went wii said:

I never got this game on gc but I kind of want it on DS.

Pottsy said:

Just got it on the DS, it's very good!

I need a wii... ew said:

I read the review. It sounds exactly the same as the ds version (apart from wi-fi) but whenever I go on the ds version (no, I don't hav it on gc) nowadays all I seem to do is sell fruit.

Ian C. said:

I have the NES on this game.

Shyho said:

Most addicting game ever, I just hate tom nook.

r2d2 said:

I hope they make the game for Wii!

WiiNinja said:

Smashville has been introduced in Smash Bros Brawl.

Lay-Z Boy said:

I love this game. I have a NES in the game. I named my town Ani. I'm in love with a beautiful black cat named Kiki. She's sweet and beautiful. She calls me Kittycat!

Lay-Z Boy said:

My bro got Wild World. It looks cool. But I think the first is cooler and simpler.

ds lover said:

I loved wild world. For a week but it still awesome.

Lay-Z Boy said:

Tom Nook is awesome.

WiiNinja said:

I just have to say, I love the title to this game: "Drive safe, Animal Crossing!".

WiiNinja said:

Mr Resetti is the best! I'm so excited to play Brawl.

RCROXURSOX said:

I never get tired of this game. It is flippin awesome!

TruBlu said:

Animal Crossing forever.

Zeldafan36 said:

Animal crossing is fun at first but after you "win" (pay all your debt and get the last house) tt gets boring. I haven't played it for almost 2 years since then.

Tom Nook said:

This game is good, yes?

HannahJuly said:

I got it on ds. I have the mansion. I have nookingtons. I have over 100,000 bells. I cheated..

Lay-Z Boy said:

The best thing about this one is the NES games and it feels more classic. Overall, I like City Folk better though.