My first memory of AC is when I was 9 (2014) I got a copy of ACNL at Gamestop. I was in my dad's car and I was so excited, I couldn't wait and I ripped open the plastic wrap thing that came over the game. I started the game and I named my town HOME because Rover asked me where I was headed to and I said home because that's where I was going to in real life. I remember the villagers and Isabelle crowding the train station and trying to pay 10,000 bells to Tom Nook for my first house upgrade. Playing ACNL for the first time felt magical, and I wish i could relive this moment.
Also I remember Muffy being one of my first villagers and I HATED her bc she creeped me out and I was so happy when she moved out.
I rented Animal Crossing: Population Growing so much when I was younger, that the video game rental store decided to just give me the copy. I was pretty much addicted. My favorite villagers in my town were Bea, Bones, and Chevre. I was bullied in school, so running back to play this game was my escape. It hadn’t occurred to me that there were actually nice people in the world. (The bullying was rough in middle school.)
The villagers were really nice to me and it brought me happiness. I wasn’t happy in school, so I went to seek the happiness elsewhere. I found it playing this game. I loved writing letters to my villagers everyday, and soon they weren’t my villagers. I considered them my friends. (This may sound pathetic, but my childhood was rough. My school did absolutely nothing to fix the bullying issue, so ultimately I ended up transferring to a new district.)
Bones became my best friend on the game. I had sent him a letter telling him that I was searching for a kiddie stereo. A few days letter, he sent me a letter in the mail. It contained a kiddie stereo. It was probably just a weird coincidence, but I like to think Bones understood my letter.
Probably being told by Isabelle in new leaf to go and talk to Filbert, cos according to her he was always nice and friendly. She was right. I don't have him in NH but I still like him a lot. His was the first villager birthday I saw too and I'd never seen any of them do that skip/dance thing and I thought he was floating haha
The earliest memory I have of actually playing an Animal Crossing game was the first day I played NL and honestly having no idea what to do, just running around aimlessly near the houses until I somehow accidentally shook a tree, then it was just lightbulb moment after lightbulb moment and once I learned how to talk to the villagers in my town, I was hooked
I’m not sure what my first memory is (I started with the series when I was three… don’t remember much in general from that age) but I know an earlier one that sticks out to me is being annoyed at having to fish Allie’s house keys out of the river in City Folk. Like, why couldn’t she do it herself? She’s an alligator! I’m a human! CLEARLY she would be more suited to this job, but no, she has the nerve to go and get mad at me when I don’t fish HER house keys out of a LITERAL RIVER before midnight.
My earliest memories playing Animal Crossing... It was Christmas morning in 2001. I was seven years old and my sister, who was twelve started a town/village named Mew. It was winter in the game, of course, and we had Bob and Mitzi. Now that I'm older, I call Bob and Mitzi the "power couple".
As a twelve-year-old with an unfortunate sense of humor, my sister called Phyllis a very unkind name, after a disease that sounds similar to "Phyllis". When I got much older, I understood Phyllis better. She had to deal with people like my sister sending letters in the middle of the night.
