I have been playing ACNL for 2 years now. I got the game back in 2015, after 2 years it was released. I'm still playing to this day actually. However I'm only playing it some days instead of my old usual of all the time.
I made my first character on July 2, 2013
I'm not sure how many hours I have; on my current D.S. I have a little over 500 but that's not including the first 8 months I played the game on my old D.S., which is when I was the most active.