This question come from Nintendude64, walkingonthesun, Munchy101 and yankees24cano

How did you first get into Animal Crossing? And how old were you when you got it?

I used to play ACGC at a friend's house occasionally, but I first properly got into Animal Crossing when ACWW was released. I was twelve, I think, at the time and I was looking online for DS games to buy. I saw ACWW in 'Upcoming Releases' and thought it looked good. I researched it and then preordered it. I spent the weeks waiting for it thinking of town names and about what kind of patterns I'd design. Then it finally arrived.

And now here we are three years later.

I first got into Animal Crossing when my brother got it for Christmas, when AC:GC first came out. We used to see who can get up first to grab the money rock. It must have been in...2002, when I was 9 years old.

I.... can't remember. XD I think my dad had found out about it soon after we got the Gamecube, and heard about the DS and plans to make one for that system. Eventually I got ACGC when I was... 8? 9? I'm not sure... But I loved it, and got both ACWW and AC:LGTTC on their releases dates in the UK.

I sorta got into Animal Crossing from a source I never would have suspected. Back then, I doubt I would have bothered paying attention to games like this. Honestly, I've never been all that into simulation type games. On top of that, I was kinda going though that "this game looks like it's for kids" phase.

Anyway, one day, I was doing something of no particular interest (i.e. I don't remember what it was), and my sister comes home from school. Now normally, she's the kind of person that could care less about video games, but on this one occasion she comes home with a Game Cube game she rented named Animal Crossing. After a while of ignoring it, cause I figured it would be a stupid game, she forces me to sit down and join her town (I think I may have made a comment about it being stupid or something to prompt this).

Well, yeah, the rest is history...

Actually, I could go on with this story, but I've already answered the question, so I should stop rambling...

I first got into Animal Crossing at my husband's suggestion. I had played videogames as a kid and had played alot of computer games on and off, but before AC, it was just my husband playing the console games in our house, and I'd mostly just sit and watch him play.

He started talking about AC before the GC version came out and I thought it sounded kind of fun, but I totally forgot about it and certainly didn't run out and buy it or anything when it was released, since that wasn't even the sort of thing I thought about. About a year later, he bought it for me as a present. After starting to play, I was instantly hooked, and have gotten more and more back into console games ever since.

(As for my age, why the same as I am now, dahling! Some of us never age, you see. )

I first found out about Animal Crossing Gamecube reading Nintendo Power. They had a several month long feature on the game and various activities within the game. For some reason I was hooked from the begining. I reread most of the articles several times and poured over the photos. I ended up buying it on release date in 02' and thinking I hope this isn't really bad, if so at least I got a new memory card. Needless to say I was hooked and played for hours on end.

Let's see it was in 02' so I was 19. Man, it really doens't seem that long ago.

I beleive I had been reading about the game in the video game magazines. I'm pretty sure I had read about it in GamePro or EGM (when they actually still published a print magazine ). Reviews were fairly positive and I needed to support the Gamecube and Nintendo. I ended up renting the game from Blockbuster (video rental store) around Thanks Giving time here in the US (end of November 2002) and played it for a week. I thought it was neat that the game followed real time. Got to experience the Harvest Festival and Franklin. I would have been 25 at the time. It wasn't until almost a year later that I finally bought the game for myself. And from then on it was in my blood to play.

I can't remember how old I was, but I read about it in a maganize. Then I rented it.

I remember a looong while ago, my parents had gotten me ACGC together with a Gamecube on Christmas Day. When I first looked at it I was like.. "Please! This looks like SUCH a kiddy game!". Just as a joke, I had a couple of friends over and we fooled around and started the game.
Little did I know it was so addicting.

Needless to say, my two other friends there ended up buying AC.

I'm pretty sure we've answered this before... meh.

I can say with a completely straight face, it's totally my husband's fault!! I, like malpal2, read about this game in Nintendo Power, but as soon as I understood the game "went on" even if you didn't play it, I put the article down and didn't read anymore. "Dangerous Stuff" I thought to myself. Later, my DH tries to point it out to me and asks if I'm going to get it. I replied with an emphatic "NO!! Are you kidding?? I'll never leave the house again!"

Much to my dismay, I unwrapped the game on Christmas morning 2002. I stared at my DH and said "Why did you get this?! I told you it was a bad idea!!" He looked at me blankly and said, "i thought you were kidding!" I plopped down in front of the TV that day and barely moved for the rest of the 6 day holiday. Everytime he tried to complain, I gave him "the look" and said "I warned you!!" The rest is history and he has eternally regretted it ever since.

(and you never ask a lady her age, don't ya know...)

I got into it through reading about it in a Nintendo magazine here, probably ONM at te time. It was something that I thought looked interesting. I looked around for some info, but really didn't see much. Anyway. I remember that it didn't have a release date, or was do far away that I decided to import the game. I'm so glad I did. I've never looked back, it's a fun and relaxing game.