Was your interest in it from the real world commerical parody?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQNFyJCun0
Did you first read about it in Nintendo Power before its release? The Crossing Guardian was nice in the days before sites like this to update you online.
For me, Nintendo kind of trojan horsed me. They put NES games into Animal Crossing. Let me go back. I was in my mid-20's in 2002 when Animal Crossing debuted, so I was already an adult by the time it came out in America. It looked stupid, cartoony, and something that I wouldn't like. Then, I find out it has NES games in it, and all you needed was a Game Boy Advance, the cable, an e-reader, and some e-cards. Okay, I had the e-reader and Advance, so I got the cable and e-cards, along with the game. Let's play some NES games! Huh, okay, Donkey Kong was in the game from the start. Okay, let's play some Donkey Kong! Now, I want more, guide time! Okay, to get more, I need to play this game. Let's play. Okay, I need to work a job, get some items back, done and done. Okay, now my house isn't paid for, so let's just keep going until I'm done with that. Okay, that's done. Huh, this game is kind of fun, no, can't be, it just looks too much like a little kid game, let's just find some more NES games, and be done playing this aspect of it! Oh, wait, that crunching sound he makes when walking in the snow, that's so adorable! Wait, I didn't just say that! Oh, look how fun it is to hit the animals over the head and see their irate reations! Hold on, this isn't supposed to be for anything other than NES games, what's going on? I paid off my house, and got the gold statue! OMG, I WANNA PLAY ANIMAL CROSSING MORE THAN THE NES GAMES IN IT!!! Nintendo, you totally trojan horsed me on Animal Crossing!! Here, I think I'm getting an NES emulator, but I ended up with one of my favorite GameCube games, and one of my favorite series of all time! Thirteen years later, and I'm STILL going back to my GC to play this game every so often, too bad I never completed the NES collection, it is what got me to buy this game afterall (I won't have them all either unless I use AR, so I'll pass, it's fun enough without them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQNFyJCun0
Did you first read about it in Nintendo Power before its release? The Crossing Guardian was nice in the days before sites like this to update you online.
For me, Nintendo kind of trojan horsed me. They put NES games into Animal Crossing. Let me go back. I was in my mid-20's in 2002 when Animal Crossing debuted, so I was already an adult by the time it came out in America. It looked stupid, cartoony, and something that I wouldn't like. Then, I find out it has NES games in it, and all you needed was a Game Boy Advance, the cable, an e-reader, and some e-cards. Okay, I had the e-reader and Advance, so I got the cable and e-cards, along with the game. Let's play some NES games! Huh, okay, Donkey Kong was in the game from the start. Okay, let's play some Donkey Kong! Now, I want more, guide time! Okay, to get more, I need to play this game. Let's play. Okay, I need to work a job, get some items back, done and done. Okay, now my house isn't paid for, so let's just keep going until I'm done with that. Okay, that's done. Huh, this game is kind of fun, no, can't be, it just looks too much like a little kid game, let's just find some more NES games, and be done playing this aspect of it! Oh, wait, that crunching sound he makes when walking in the snow, that's so adorable! Wait, I didn't just say that! Oh, look how fun it is to hit the animals over the head and see their irate reations! Hold on, this isn't supposed to be for anything other than NES games, what's going on? I paid off my house, and got the gold statue! OMG, I WANNA PLAY ANIMAL CROSSING MORE THAN THE NES GAMES IN IT!!! Nintendo, you totally trojan horsed me on Animal Crossing!! Here, I think I'm getting an NES emulator, but I ended up with one of my favorite GameCube games, and one of my favorite series of all time! Thirteen years later, and I'm STILL going back to my GC to play this game every so often, too bad I never completed the NES collection, it is what got me to buy this game afterall (I won't have them all either unless I use AR, so I'll pass, it's fun enough without them).