What is your Animal Crossing History?

[Mithril Gamer]

Here's my Animal Crossing story:
When I was like 9 years old, my public library was letting people check out video games. I was looking for games for my DS and I found Wild World. I checked it out and started playing it (I've always been an advanced reader when I started reading in second grade). I got extremely tired of doing work for Tom Nook, shut down my DS and turned it back in and never be played again. A few years later I got a hold of a 3DS XL. I played it for months (Mario and Zelda games, and fire emblem), but then I ran out of things to play. Around that time I fell in love with harvest moon. I heard that Animal Crossing New Leaf is also a life simulation game. I started watching Chuggaaconroy lets play of New Leaf, thought it was amazing, checked it out from the library and loved it. I turned in Tomodachi Life (the second worst game I ever had, the first being Pokemon Ranger) and bought Animal Crossing New Leaf, which as already gotten to my third favorite game of all time. What's your story?

 

[meriwether]

animal crossing was my first video game! my second oldest brother got the gamecube game when we were little, and i was only five and barely knew how to read. i made a character named m in our town named jail (heh). my brother would always make me pull up all the weeds if i wanted to play. the only thing i wanted to do was talk to the animals......mitzi was my favorite and still is
i got wild world on the ds as soon as i found out about it. i played it sooooo much and told a friend about it and we would play it all the time together. i sadly lost my first cartridge but i have a new one now
ehhhh i didn't play city folk much. i got it for christmas and did for a while but then my wii broke. i really liked it when i could play it though!
and now new leaf! i have spent well over 500 hours on and cherish it dearly. animal crossing is my first and favorite series (harvest moon is my second series i ever played, a wonderful life, and my second favorite series)

 

[AskaRay]

Well, back when I was like... 13 or something I finally picked up AC for the Gamecube. Played it for like a year straight. It was fantastic.
Then of course I moved on to other video games, heard about WW and CF coming out but I was like, nah I have no time for this. Then ACNL was announced and everyone was going crazy. I saw screenshots and it looked SO GOOD and I knew I had to have it this time. Got it in July of last year, played it for a few months then put it down.
About a month ago I decided to stop being lazy and start up my file again, just to see that some VERY IMPORTANT VILLAGERS HAD LEFT... so I had to fix that and...
well, here we are. Try to make it a goal of at least visiting my town every day, while I try to make it ~perfect~

 

[spCrossing]

I knew the series since 2002, because of the Melee trophies of Mr. Ressetti and K.K. Slider.
And I wanted the game so badly, it's just that my resources were limited and I didn't know what the game was called.
It wasn't until around 2008 where it was called Animal Crossing and to be honest, I basically lost interest in the series.
Until New Leaf that is, but I started with City Folk a month before New Leaf was released. But I did play the original on an emulator years ago, so City Folk wasn't technically my first Animal Crossing game. City Folk didn't keep me in for very long and then I basically turned to New Leaf in October and got invigorated into the series.

 

[Holla]

I saw an insert in one of my old DS games advertising Animal Crossing Wild World. It showed two players hanging out in a house chatting and also mentioned the whole design your own clothes and your own house. It sounded super interesting! XD The rest is history!

I later bought Wild World in 2006, then in 2008 I bought City Folk, and then last year I bought New Leaf. ^.^

 

[Ste]

I can't quite remember when exactly, but I was very young - and it was nearly Christmas. As an early present (early December) I asked for Wild World. I was at GAME when I said it and my dad bought it for me. It was possibly one of the best decisions I have ever made! ^_^ I was just so impressed. Majority of my friends had the game too, which was awesome.
Eventually, I bought LGTTC when it came out. Which was excellent. Had a lot of online sessions with friends.
Aaaand I bought New Leaf on its launch date! Here's to the next generation of AC/

 

[WeiMoote]

I read about Animal Crossing in Nintendo Power, and the rest was history.

The day I got it, I threw up in excitement! (Thankfully in the bathroom, though.)

 

[Aryxia]

I rented City Folk from Blockbuster when I was about 10 and ended up buying it. I was obsessed for a couple of month before abandoning it. I picked up ACNL for the nostalgia value, and have been playing it off-and-on ever since.

 

[jessicat_197]

I found an acww cartridge on the floor when it was raining. Thought it didn't work but tried it and played it. Fell in love ever since c: I'm so sorry to who ever it belonged to :c

 

[mags]

My sister told me to try Wild world, ( we are both mums) I hated it and was about to give it up but every day she rang and suggested I do this and do that. Once I knew what I was doing I was well away and loved it. I eventually completed my catalogue and I was over the moon. Couldn't wait for new leaf to be out and pre ordered it. I now have 3 copies lol

 

[Mango]

WELL, when i was like, 4, i went to my friends house and she had a gc with acpg on it. i played that, got my own gc, played acpg on it, then when that broke, i got acww. played it for about 6 years straight. then, 4 years into acww, i got accf. i played that from 2008-2013. god damn i wanna play it so bad qwq now here i am with nl! so ive been playing since 2005 or so

 

[misslollipops]

It was four years ago, I was this little kid on my first vacation to France. I bought my DS Lite for the plane ride, but literally the only games I had were Cooking Mama and MySims Party (which i lost on the plane lol). One day me and my family were at a flea market and I saw a pile of DS games. I was rubbish at reading so I didn't choose, like, Mario Kart or something. But then I see this lil green box with some lil animals. I say "Mommy I want this one", and BAM! Hooked. I even remember my first ever town, Meatball. Oh, Meatball....

 

[Beachland]

In 2005 (I think) my friend told me to try this game called Animal Crossing for Gamecube. I didn't have a Gamecube but AC:WW had come out so I asked my mom to buy it for me. Eventually my brother and my friends with DSs all had copies and it was so much fun to meet up in each other's towns. Unfortunately my friends all "grew out" of games like that while I never really did, haha.

 

[xCryCry]

i was like 8 or 9 years old (sometime in first grade if i remember) and i believe i recall seeing Animal Crossing commercial on a DVD thing i got from Nintendo Power or something. Anyways, my brother, my sister, and I all decided we wanted to get it so we got our parents to buy it for us on the Gamecube. i played for a super long time and but i stopped playing it whenever legendary games like Wind Waker, Fire Emblem, Baten Kaitos,Tales of Symphonia, etc were released. so many great games that i just didn't have time for Animal Crossing.

When the DS came out and so did Wild World, i definitely got it and played it for good while too, but i just forgot about it among all the great DS games coming out and there were so much good stuff that Wild World kinda quickly ended up collecting dust on my shelf. because i showed not too much interest in Wild World, i didn't even bother buying City Folk because i felt i would just ignore the game just like i did with WW. plus, i really didn't have time for CF either with all the Wii games i had

but now flashforward to 2014 when i finally was able to buy a 3ds xl, i had been waiting forever and it was killing me that everyone i knew raving about ACNL so i kinda begged my brother to let me have New Leaf and since he wasn't really playing it, he just gave me his cartridge and i'm having so much fun even when i'm not mayor. really, even with all the great games on 3DS out, i always find myself coming back to this. definitely, ACNL has been the strongest game of the series that it's kept me loyal to it far longer than any of the past games and not even some of the best can pull me away from it :3

 

[Explosivo25]

Read about City Folk in a booklet about new and upcoming wii games back in December 2008. I decided it looked fun, so I bought it in January 2009. My sister and I got addicted pretty fast!

 

[plaguedspirit]

I first got Animal Crossing in 2005 for the GCN. I played with my sister and my mother. We had so much fun, that I spent so much time trying to get that fun back through the other games. The only one I've gotten that with was New Leaf.

The forum aspect really helps with the socialization and everything. I've met some really great friends just from playing with them on the island and other things. It's been amazing!

 

[LyraVale]

I only started playing AC last year, with NL. I got OBSESSED right away, and played all day every day for the first few months. I played for hours everyday for almost the entire year. Only the last couple of months I started playing other games, since before that ACNL took up all my time. I really love the game for many many reasons. I wish I'd found it earlier, because I would have loved to try the older versions, but now it's too late to go back to those after ACNL. But I can't wait for the next game in the series. I'm sure I'll be just as obsessed with that.

 

[Muffie]

For my birthday I was 11 and I got the WW game on November 10th of 2006 and I was instantly hooked and I played it a lot. During that time I was in Middle School and it was my favorite escape from those times when kids are at their literal worse and my sister were the drama queens of the century. I had a strong connection with the animals and made best friends with the animals and wrote them letters everyday.

Eventually my mom and stepfather pulled the money up for a Wii a couple years later and when I saw advertisements for City Folk I knew I had to have it, and then I did. City Folk was my ultimate game where I went crazy on raking in bells and trying to look super cute and I totally made my house fully upgraded with the flag and all thanks to constantly TTING to Bunny Day and getting the egg furniture over and over and over a couple days during a lazy summer. I still have that game file on my DS to this day and you can tell I was in my emo phase because my roof was black and I had a skull flag and several weird emoish designs in Ables.

Then, for Christmas of 2012 I got my first 3DS. I played on it a lot with most of my DS games and some 3DS games, returning back to Wild World and reliving my childhood, then I saw New Leaf on Amazon and at first it wasn't a huge reaction...
Then I just kept...
Going back to the Amazon page...
And looking at all the screenshots...
And the new things in the game...
I got really hyped really fast but I was sad that my mother was getting testy about me spending so much of my own money so fast. It really upset me and my beloved boyfriend took notice in this and he was like "Y'know what? I'm preordering the game for you because that's b*******!" And I was so ecstatic and really really happy. I got the game later in the mail due to Amazon being slow, but when I got it I dove in for ages and got so crazy over all the new things and everything made me so unbelievably happy. The diving, the island, Isabelle, the amazing quality. I was into it for months, my boyfriend got his own copy and we talked about it a bit but he's since fell out of it. |D

After a while it became my new escape from stressful Junior/Senior life, but I made my town as beautiful as I could and it made me feel like I was doing something right. Everytime I was bored or life was getting difficult I'd talk to my little animal friends all over again and their cheery words would bring me up a little again and reminded me I was doing something good in my fictional world. I stopped a couple times and reset 2 times since my first town, but every town had it's good memories.

But... a couple months ago after I graduated High School, I tragically lost my stepfather and during that time I was in a great shock and I dug myself deep into Winvale and depended on my little friends (and real friends, I didn't keep myself pent up or anything) to make me feel better considering my last time seeing him was seeing him die right there in front of me due to a bad heart. I never had a proper closure because his family didn't let us come to his funeral and that left me really angry and sad. But this game really helped me stay positive and I'm still positive to this day.

This is horribly long, and I apologize, but TLDR: I have a really deep connection with the franchise and I love it dearly because it was a really peaceful and good game for all my issues, lol!

 

[lutrea]

I remember buying Wild World when it first came out at my local game stop when I was a wittle thing. I don't really know what inspired me to buy the game, but I remember bugging my mom to give me the $30 to buy it. (back when new DS games were $29.99 usd). I didn't really do much in the game. My town sucked, and so did my house. xD I never talked to anyone and everyone hated me. I also used to TT a lot to get 10k for my birthday so I could pay off my home loan.

I then got AC for the Game Cube, but I sucked at that too. Then I got City Folk, and honestly never played it. At this point I am not quite sure why I even bothered to continue to buy Animal Crossing games.

When Pokemon X and Y came out in October of last year, I fell in love in love with my 3DS allllllll over again. It was like a door opened for me. Lol. Sadly, I beat Pokemon X within a week (like I always do with new Pokemon games) and was like "hey, I want a new game to play" I looked at reviews of the best 3DS games and saw there was a new AC game.

I remember pondering if I should get it or not, and I was like, eh why not. So I put on some pants and went to Game Stop and bought yet another Animal Crossing game. Yet somehow, this time it was different. I seriously love Animal Crossing New Leaf so much. I mean, I know it is just like all other AC games (with some other updates but y'know). I just really fell in love with it this time. Finally. Lol

 

[DarkOnyx]

I was three when I first started.My dad introduced it to me.My first town was seaworld and my name was ranger...xD I got each game after that.