I think I found it through google. I did search for it, though, because when I was on City Folk, I knew about the site (but didn't join then, I had no wifi capability), but when I got new leaf, I searched for this site. Mainly because my experience on GameFaq was so bad! And then once I was here, it was so colorful and well organized, I haven't looked back, lol.
When I had ACCF, I wanted to join a community and such and I found 2 of them, which TBT was 1 of them.
Although I do take breaks every now and then, I always find myself coming back to this site. It's an awesome community
Google. I had bought a Nintendo 3DS XL and the game I wanted (and of which I can't even remember the title, ha ha) was out of stock, so I ended up ordering Animal Crossing: New Leaf instead because it had a good score and reviews, even though I had no idea what the game was about. After a few days of playing I realized I needed some help or a guide and thus I did some searching on Google. I found TBT, lurked for a while and then joined because there were a few questions I wanted to ask and a few things I needed help with. I've pretty much lost interest in AC:NL but I've gotten a few other games after having read about them here, so it's a good thing I joined and I'll probably stay around for a while (though lately I've been either not on-line or lurking because of Real Life, you know).
This is going to sound really weird, but I was googlomg to see if anyone else was sad that Chuggaconroy's New Leaf LP was over, and one of the results was a thread in the cafe. I checked out tge rest of tge forums, and I liked it here
Every time I had a question about animal crossing, I would google it and TBT would always come up. I figured I'd join to see if I could find any hidden gems in the game. Now I'm a tbt junkie. xD
A friend linked me here from an Animal Crossing chat. I was there for quite a while until I was linked here. Unfortunately that chat is dead, but at least some good came from it.
To be honest I actually forgot how and why I joined. I want to say it was more complicated than searching "animal crossing forums" but it probably was =P
I was looking to get a villager (Molly), and had searched the internet with a fine tooth comb eventually found this site, and within the first day or so I had her! The person was so nice as well, were really patient with my newbieness, and that helped me stay