What year did you start playing Animal Crossing?

[Rainbowkiwibird]

I am a child compared to all of you fans
Started this year, and I only have one town. ACNL is now my favorite game, it's everything I could've asked for in a game, and I'm glad I heard of it.

 

[Nerd House]

Last year. I play on and off every few months. It's not the kind of game that holds my attention too long, but I do enjoy my time with it.

 

[Blythetastic]

2013.
I bought it at the Nintendo Store in NYC the day I got Pokemon X.

 

[itzafennecfox]

I was pretty young when we bought the game so I can't quite remember, I think it was in 2004.
My older brother won a GameCube at the school fair and Animal Crossing was one of the first games we got for it.

 

[SakuraJD]

my first game was new leaf, but i had been super interested in it for a long time, just never had much money to spend for it, and whenever i did, i was distracted by other games. got new leaf for free because of club nintendo, and im pretty darn happy with my choice there. though, club nintendo did end up screwing me over with one of my rewards, but thats entirely unrelated

 

[GardenGnostic]

I started playing in January as I bought myself a 3ds XL and New Leaf for my birthday.
I'd wanted New Leaf since it came out but I never had the spare cash for a DS.
Best decision ever xD

 

[nerdatheart9490]

My brother got it the day it came out for GameCube in the US. I've been playing it nearly my whole life <3

 

[MissHappyNarwhal]

I hit 2001 but it was actually 2002. We had a Gamecube and my brother got Animal Crossing. I was hooked.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

damn 2006 seems like a pretty stable year from when people started playing. im not surprised actually

 

[Momzilla]

The first time I played was on a friend's game back in 2002.

I was in love with it before I ever played though, due to the commercials for the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSGQC5P9vLo

 

[Alyx]

I first played Animal Crossing on Christmas Day, 2002

 

[Blueskyy]

I voted 2001 but meant 2002 because that was the NA release. I was about 12.

 

[Videoguy612]

It's so sad to see the amount of people that never played, or didn't start playing Animal Crossing until after AC GameCube, which is the best in my opinion.

 

[Dawnpiplup]

I voted 2010 in the poll, but I think it was 2012 when I started to play my first Animal Crossing game, Wild World. I believe I was in 5th grade when I played it.