I'm not really sure how I found out. Maybe Blockbuster when they were selling GCN games. I think at the time they were on sale too. When I found the game case I read the back to know what the game's about and then I bought the game without a second thought.
My (ex) mates gave me a copy not long after them getting the original for DS, when I saw them playing it I was hooked which is why they bought me a copy of it for my birthday back when the original first came out. Since then, AC:NL is my life hehe. Even though I admit there's a lot of downtime and or boring parts of the game, but with that said with everything to do especially with NL, the options are almost limitless.
I think I find out about Animal Crossing through an advertisement when I was in elemantary school and I had my first Ds. After I wanted Ac so much but I had to wait a long time and then I got it for my communion.
I used to have a flash card for my very first DS, and I tried the DS one at one point. It was ugly and felt weird though, so I tossed it aside and never looked at it again.
I didn't actually get interested in AC until I saw gameplay of New Leaf before it was released, and it looked like a lot of fun. So I got it, and that was that.
When I had sleepover over at my best friend's house, we used to play games together. One day she was playing Animal Crossing: City Folks and I got hooked. Decided to get a wii and the game too~
Either my older sister's babysitter or a kid at her babysitter's house was playing WW, so she decided to get it, which got our whole family to start playing it. :3
While we were growing up, my brother was always the first one to get any video game or system. He was older and always got the cool stuff. So he was the one with the gamecube, and he was the one who played the first animal crossing game. I was allowed to watch him play and I really really loved it. Eventually, he let me make a character and play with her once a week. When the xbox got popular, he abandoned his gamecube and gave it to me. I played that game all the time!
Years later, my best friend asked me if I was going to be buying acnl. I recognized the ac part of the name and looked it up. I didn't know they made a whole series of games! I thought the original was the only one. I got acnl a week after it came out. I love it. I sometimes go a few months at a time without playing, but when I do play it, I get hooked and play all day for weeks on end.
Saw Wild World at Gamestop, looked at the box, thought it was adorable, begged my parents to buy it for me, and then freaked out when New Leaf came out and bought it immediately.
Well.. I remember years ago, my family got me and my sister a Wii. And guess what game came with it? Animal Crossing: City Folk. A while after that I got Animal Crossing: Wild World and just continued from there!
Saw the original game's commercial on TV. Got it on it's release day, but played it until that one squirrel villager I liked moved on me. Then in 2009 I saw City Folk and bought it, and actually stayed into AC.
Then I decided to buy ACGC again along with WW, which I kinda regret buying