Check out Rockefeller, he is also very underrated: ► 9PM remix: ua-cam.com/video/-nk4Pqh4DVI/v-deo.html ► Main Theme remix: ua-cam.com/video/XHnILkqB4HQ/v-deo.html
Idk if this is what they were going for, but I always love the idea that part of the reason Resetti is so insane is that he's basically trapped in Groundhogs day if he only appears when you cheat and start screwing with the time space continuum. Are moles and groundhogs any different? Or are they part of a similar genus(or something like that?, like dogs compared to wolves? Idk I'm not a zoologist)
That story about the kids who lost their mom breaks my heart, even more so because it's the character's mom that sends a bunch of stuff. I guess they could have been getting stuff from their real mom but I bet most of it was from the in-game mom. I grew up with this game and loved every second of it. It was weird playing Animal Crossing back then...like playing some secret game that you couldn't really explain why it was fun.
My mom and I literally bonded over the Gamecube Animal Crossing. Sometimes she'd steal the console from me just to play it after work. Once she picked me up early from 6th grade, and in the parking lot when I asked if anything was wrong, she said "No, I just found a REALLY big fish in the river and I don't my reflexes enough to get it.", so she just flat-out came and got me early as a treat. It was so nice because there's a bigger age gap between me and my mom than most of my peers, so playing video games for the first time at 40+ was a challenge for her, but AC was relaxing enough that she could otherwise keep up. I moved out almost 3 years ago and one of my first big purchases with my own money was to buy her a Switch and New Horizons. Honestly I'm so glad he touched on the deep emotional connection that the original game had for so many people. It hit me personally like a ton of bricks because I'm definitely one of them lol
New Horizons removed a lot of the goofiness and edginess I always saw as a part of the Animal Crossing experience: Blathers no longer tells you how to cook the fish you catch, villagers almost never have any sort of conflict, the cheesy and cartoony furniture sets are mostly gone, and many of the goofy and offbeat NPCs are gone. I’m really, really happy for the folks who love the game; it just doesn’t really feel like Animal Crossing to me anymore.
Very much agree. I've enjoyed ACHN a lot - it's like a prettier the sims. I love decorating. But, I really miss Animal Crossing. While waiting for ACNH to release I played a bit of Wild World again and fell in love again with how much those little characters can feel real. I really wish there was something a bit more modern to fill the void that ACWW left.
@hi hungry i'm dad this is why new leaf is the best in the series. it manages to maintain the charm and atmosphere of the whole series up to that point, and manages to have brought out more content than new horizons, even now i believe.
I played the gamecube AC yesterday, and I got sent running around 7 villagers trying to find a gsmeboy, until a chicken just got pissed at me and refused to talk AT ALL!!!! So I get distracted and come back 30 minutes later, and he's blocked up in the middle of another favor, and I can't even ask about the first I wanted from him! So then I get the new favor accomplished, and randomly bumped into one of the characters I ALREADY ASKED ABOUT(and they said they let a friend borrow it) and they just gave it to me then(NOT EVEN THE ONE I WAS LOOKING FOR AT THAT POINT!) And I fucking love that unnecessary frustration the characters bring lol
I'll never forget being 5 years old playing Animal crossing for the first time on the gamecube. I couldn't read yet so my mom would read everything out loud for me. I remember her laughing at how mean the villagers were too. One time late at night, around midnight, I finally finished my job at Tom Nooks (neither me or my mom knew that we had to meet the mayor 😂) I remember the two of us dancing and laughing, I was so happy to finally get to truly play the game after two weeks of running around like an idiot hahaha. She even called me in sick from school the next day so I could sleep in. Over the years I have played every animal crossing entry since the first and always told her about it and showed her my progress. When new horizons came out I was always sending her progress pictures of my island. She never played a video game in her life but somehow animal crossing was something dear to both of our hearts. She passed away last year on Christmas Eve from a freak accident and every time I get a letter from "mom" it hits me hard. Something about the game will always feel a bit empty without her now.
I think the core reason for the creation of the original game is something that is really missing from New Horizons. It's so special and really captures that feeling of creating new friends and becoming part of a community. I hope Nintendo can bring that feeling back somehow in new Animal Crossing versions.
Grew up with GC version. Beat the game with sibling. We had maxed out 2 houses, 2 empty houses friends would come over sometimes and progress, got all our debts paid, got golden tools, maxed museum, all fruit trees, item catalogue, got a 2nd town on separate memory card + gba cable gameplay, etc. Tried new versions, but they just don't have the same vibe.
I know that the multiplayer isn't talked about much but it created a magical connection between my siblings and cousin. My cousin rented a room from my parents but worked late often. We'd communicate through the game by sending letters, leaving messages on the board, or just begging my mom to let us stay up to show our cousin some cool thing we found. It was a magical adventure that unfolded with exploration and time. It fostered a connection and sense of exploration. I will forever remember it for this.
The multi-player had a certain experience that I never really had till that game. The fact that you all could share a town or have seprite towns and they would still effect eatch other was fun. I remember when a village left my town to go to my friends. That was both funny and blew my mind as a kid.
What’s funny is this game wasn’t that big when it first came out, it was more of a cult game. Resetti wasn’t really about saving, he was there because you could corrupt your game if you just turned off the system. Granted my favorite thing was to keep turning off the system until resetti got too mad and sent his brother to talk to me because he was to mad lol
I played it quite a lot as a kid, so imagine my shock when I learned it only really started taking off when wild world came out (then REALLY took off with new leaf).
No, Resetti was really about saving. The developers of the game didn't feel the game was being played properly if you reset to undo something bad that happened to you. The game doesn't corrupt just because you don't save.
I always thought "mean villagers" weren't there to stand out but for authenticity. Moving to a new town can be a cold and isolating experience. You'll make new friends but you'll also meet people you don't get along with. While the "mean villagers" stand out, the kind villagers definitely exist too (even grumpy and snooty villagers have a hidden sweet side), and the diversity is what makes the villagers feel so real to me. People definitely feel the opposite of this effect as a big complaint with NH is that the villagers feel fake rather than real, as though the game is a glorified dollhouse--far from the point of the original game. Beyond the 6 main personalities, very unknown are the 6 islander personalities, which have key differences and often feel like completely separate personalities/characters. What's sad is that while people can emulate this game, people rarely can visit the island in the emulator, meaning these unique 6 additional personalities are also being lost to time. Also even if you visit the island, of course you only meet one islander. If you're int'd though, here's a code to summon Kapp'n on Dolphin. Instructions: 1. In Dolphin, go to Options->Configuration->then check Enable Cheats 2. Boot up Animal Crossing, then in Dolphin go to Tools -> Cheat Manager -> AR Code -> Add New Code and pop in the code 04414cd4 38600001 045756a8 38600001 3. Reboot the game and Kapp'n will now always appear at the dock. When leaving the island, Kapp'n will ask if you want to "take the island with you" on your GBA, just say no to this. I'm also logging the islander personalities and their dialogue if anyone's interested. Thanks for this great video, it was an absolutely awesome in-depth look at this game.
@@horsehorse4601 After you've checked Enable Cheats in the Options tab, then start the game. Then back in Dolphin go to Tools -> Cheat Manager and in that the AR Code tab. You should be able to add the code this way and make sure it's turned on. Let me know if you have any more trouble!
@@AlexisTwoLastNames They were very cool! These are fan-coined names for them, but they were "stoic," "dreamer," "surfer bro," "auntie," "suave," and "ditzy." I have a page for them with their dialogue but I'm not sure how to link it here. Definitely worth playing to check them out! :D
The number 1 reason I love the older animal crossing games is! BEACAUSE I don’t have to be mayor or island manager or something I just was to relax and have fun.
You don't have to manage anything if you don't want to. If the game is stressing you out I have a feeling you have irl problems and it's not the game. lmao. I say this as someone who doesn't really like AC:NH.
I think OP was saying how the new animal crossing game there is more of a “unseen pressure “ to manage your island to make it “the best” and with all the potential of landscaping it can become a little overwhelming. Original animal crossing you could just dink around and there was no pressure of “the best town” except for moving trees around and weeding.
The newer games have lost the goofy life sim element in favor of making the game a dollhouse to decorate, which feels too shallow to be engaging for more than a month or two. The devs always should’ve just expanded on the concepts from the original game.
Having moved to Japan a decade ago, I was so excited when I found a mint condition copy of Animal Forest for the N64 complete with box and everything at my local used game store. I got it for only ¥4,000 which is less than $40.00. It was like finding the Holy Grail on clearance.
The OG gamecube version was a blockbuster rental, 3 times... Then it became a birthday present, and got the gameboy connection cable to get to the island. Gold.
I remember my friend & I obsessing over this game in our final year of high school. Our lunch hours were 1 hour & 20 minutes long so we'd literally drive home (in my 1980 Chrysler Cordoba) just to play the game. Crazy to think that was 2 decades ago now.
To this day I haven't been able to find any other games that capture quite the same feeling as the original Animal Crossing. The sequels were all good in their own ways, but none of them have quite done the same things that this game did.
In some interviews, Eguchi says the “communication game” idea was not just with the villagers, but between family members sharing a village and friends with other villages, like these touching stories in this video. Because everyone can interact with the village but not at the same time, the idea is they talk about it after, or with the bulletin board/letters. It's a kind of weird dynamic but it works. Also, Mr. Totaka was not the composer for the hourly themes, though he probably had influence, he was the sound director. Kenta Nagata did the title and outdoor themes, including the work and hourly themes. Nagata also has worked on such bangers such as Dragon Roost Island from Wind Waker. On the topic, I also must show appreciation for Shinobu Nagata (née Tanaka), who imbued a signature style into the event themes I can only describe as "wacky", and Toru Minegishi, who not only wrote the shop themes used throughout the series but also 65 songs of different genres for K.K. to give out (Totaka arranged the live performances). So yeah, I agree the game's music is really great.
I love this game! Never before has a game captured this feeling of loneliness in a world full of color and surprises. In the winter, trees would be decorated, snowballs can be rolled to make actual snowmen, igloos by the villagers can be entered and have the loveliest atmosphere! When spring comes along, there's cherry blossom trees everywhere and a beautiful festival! There's stuff like Groundhog Day, or the fortune teller, or the hidden NES games, the strange gyroids, the rare pieces of art, the shady seller who comes in every now and again, the hidden treasure hunts, Nook upgrading his store, the monthly raffle for cool items, Sabel's story, the different postal worker during the evening, the golden tools, the balloon presents, and there's so, so much more to discover! Unlike New Horizons which launched with everything major already revealed, this game left a lot for the player to discover! The makes AC for GameCube a million times more memorable and impactful! Speaking of impactful, this game really makes me feel. Sometimes, I am in my house all alone and I just hear train tracks off in the distance. Along with that there's the town bell that plays, but not many outside noises, giving me that impression that this is a town in the sticks, often quiet and sorta cozy, but also a little lonely. You start off the game with an empty house and you really must work hard to turn your house into a little sanctuary. Never before has a game felt more real. The characters even felt pretty real too. Sometimes they were overdramatic and overzealous, but there were more quiet times with them as well, where they seemed to actually like you and care. Sure, this was certainly a simple form of life, but the fact that it told the actual time made the game feel like it was really real life. It was just simply incredible! This is a game with a lot of heart, it'll make you feel lonely, it'll make you feel angry, it'll make you feel comfort, and it'll make you surprised in both the best and worst ways. Animal crossing New Horizons is my least favorite game that I’ve ever played. It’s not even a bad game, but it just breaks my soul to see such a bastardization of one of my favorite games of all time! It truly stings. There’s still so much potential to improve what’s already here, but Nintendo will not do it the way Animal Crossing is going. I want a game where the world feels more real, not more artificial...
18:35 resetty was a special nightmare or me. When I got my first copy of AC WW, I didn’t know English. My English level was below A1. So when resetty talked to me I could not understand him and his demands. That was specially intimidating for me.
Man I remember this game being a lot more brutal then the others. Everyone always talks about the villagers being mean, but they will straight up rob you! I remember going into a tent one of my villagers set up for the first time and playing some “games” with them. I had 95,000 bells in my pocket, which took 5 year old me so much time to get. The villager gave me 2 cards. If I pick the right one I’d get a prize. If I pick the wrong one, they get all the money in my pocket. That’s right. ALL OF IT! It was a terrifying moment for young me. I wanted to go back but I had to make the choice. I choose wrong and lost all of my money. Safe to say that after that whenever I went into a tent, I’d dump all of my stuff outside so I’d never have to experience that pain again.
I very much miss the old personalities of the original, you could have three villagers with the same base personality but all be wildly different because of the sub personalities that they had
Im 23 I just bought a gamecube to play animal crossing again and. Its wild to say how much I miss it? Maybe its the tonal difference between NH but its an incredible experience and I am sad most animal crossing players have missed it.
When I was a kid, I was looking for game but it wasn’t in stock so my mom said to get another game. I ended up just getting animal crossing cuz it looked cute and included a memory card. I’m so glad i did! Such a great game
I am 31, and watching this video reminded me of a very nostalgic time in my life, a very innocent time, maybe a better time, but maybe rose tinted glass. Feels like a different life. Thanks for posting this. Played this game pretty heavily from 2003 until around 2007 or even as late as 2008. (P.S. I also tried to get Cookie to fall in love with me cus I thought maybe you could get married in game bahahaha. Didn't work. RIP my 1st love
31 myself, still feel 28 though. At least that’s what I tell myself 🥹 I played the original game when it first came out. I even got the game guide from Kmart! While it had obvious limitations then, it was still good and I respect the fact it didn’t make you into some kind of all powerful god.
I've played every game in the series, but nothing has ever trumped the original game for me. The art style, sound design, and overall vibe is just so different. I love the moody villagers, the pacing, the funky and percussive music, and the use of patterns and colors in the objects and environments. It's one of my all-time favorite games and still the version of Animal Crossing that best exemplifies what I most adore about the series.
You included almost all of my favorite parts from the original animal crossing. Thank you for showing it the love it deserves 🥰 The only part you missed was how terrifying it was to encounter Wisp
One thing I really miss about this game and era of gaming was discovering its secrets. Animal crossing GameCube had a fair amount of Easter eggs/ hidden events and items. Back then it was a little harder to prove something was real and it took longer for people to get that information out. I miss scouring forums and imagining what was possible that hadn’t been discovered yet. This game especially had such an air of mystery/ implication of a larger world that was almost eerie at times, especially to my younger self.
I’ve been playing a ton of animal crossing gamecube recently and it’s immediately grabbed me more than wild world or city folk purely due to the fact that it’s so much different than every other game in the series. I’ve played every day for the past couple weeks and I’m constantly finding new things that are different from future games in the series. After 2 years of new horizons it just feels like such a breath of fresh air, the villagers in gc piss me off sometimes but at least they’re making me feel anything at all lol
I received a DVD in the mail randomly with tons of GameCube adds in like 2001 and that animal crossing add is so nostalgic to me I used to watch it and laugh over and over. Such a good game
This the only animal crossing I have ever played. So many memories of spending hours playing this game. Nintendo should do a digital release. Btw it was easy to get money... through the secret password. Thanks for the retro recap!
This video is so underrated, I hope it will take off soon!! Personally I've never played the GameCube game, my first Animal Crossing was New Leaf but it was still really nice and oddly touching to listen to you talk about this beautiful game!
This will always be my favorite AC. It just has something the newer ones don't, and I've played them all extensively. This one is just max comfy especially during the holidays.
This video is a straight up masterpiece. Brilliant writing! So much humor and so much heart! I had never given much thought to the first animal crossing game and new leaf was my first exposure to the series but now I think I’m going to check out what started it all! Thank you 😊
The more I listen to Yellow Magic Orchestra the more I realize that every Japanese game dev was also listening to Yellow Magic Orchestra. Tong Poo is just a SNES Final Fantasy overworld theme!
I was extremely lucky to have been a teenager when AC came out on Gamecube. It is a game that blew my mind, made me want to endlessly play, and stuck with me for decades later. I'm so happy to see this getting a bit of recognition!
ACGC is my favorite entry it just has so much they never brought back into the series. Let’s not forget how every villager had a sense of identity and felt different. Not every villager was nice to you unlike In the newer entries were the villagers just feel like robots
I remember being a brat asking for a game just cause and I picked out this game cause I just wanted a game.. Man this game is amazing..nothing feels like this game ..maybe cause it was much more simple. Anyways sorry mom and dad for being a brat when i was little but hey I found a super awesome game. Lol
That “you look like a mf uhhhhh” edit was hilarious. This video had every bit of charm and care put into it as the original Animal Crossing on the GameCube. Excellent video my man 🤌🏽
this hits so close to home. my mom was introduced to the game by her aunt, when she was pregnant with me. this same aunt is my confirmation sponsors and she almost died from kidney failure. we still have the game and my mother is now disabled at stuck home. maybe I’ll remind her of this game as something to play, it could help when she misses us or is alone
The villagers are one of the reasons Population Growing was so memorable. People love that some villagers start out less friendly and you earning their friendship.
I remember the first time I played it I got so addicted to it haha I would think about it all day and would spend hours playing as soon as I got home. New Horizons......not so much
Wow, was not expecting to click on a random video about animal crossing and find a fellow syracusian. I hope you continue to enjoy our freak weather :3
You know what makes the GameCube version underrated? Full NES games. Especially when you use an Action Replay device to unlock those that can’t be acquired otherwise. Animal Crossing GC was like the Virtual Console an entire generation before Virtual Console was a thing.
Honestly this is such a solid video. I miss animal crossing gamecube so much, it definitely has such an air of mystery to it. The conversations I found weren't ever as repetitive as new horizons. There wasn't much online about it so you'd just explore and get surprised by small events all the time, and even with the money cheatcode, it would still take you hundreds of hours to pay off your debt, so you'd just resort to selling fish and fruit. It felt like you were striving for something. Getting furniture was more difficult, which made the reward of it so much greater. The soundtrack has stuck with me forever, while the other games have faded into nothing mostly. I could get over 1 million bells in new horizons in a single day just doing the stalk market turnips and selling a few pieces of furniture. It's just been collecting dust for me lol. Seems more like the sims for creatives making nice towns and honestly, at that point just separate the games or do better integrating both play styles. Make the town interesting again, make the npc's more real. A little bit of sass was so fun.
i grew up playing new leaf (it came out when i was in 6th grade i think), but at the beginning of quarantine a little before new horizons came out i started playing animal crossing gamecube. then after i got sick of new horizons i kept playing gamecube animal crossing. i couldnt see my friends in real life because everyone was still really scared of covid so i would just sit in my room alone playing it most days that summer. i dont know if it eased the isolation or made it worse but it sure made me feel something. i have a lot of memories of the game now so this video really hit me in the feels. i really do think more people should play it
This video was just recommended to the right person. Man, as a fan that started with gamecube, it really hurts me to see what they have done with new horizons... It doesn't feel the same. I does not MAKE me feel the same way. I liked the simplicity and the logic in Gamecube, and it managed to carry itself to new leaf... But new horizons just feels disingenuous to me, like it was made specifically to banish all of the animal crossing from animal crossing. I still like new horizons, but hearing people talk about Population Growing and remembering it myself... Makes me glad to have started way back then! That said: You didn't mention Retro TV's sound on the music portion and for that you must be punished. Though it is not up to me to say what that punishment might be.
Thank you for showing love to this game. It means a lot to me since someone i loved bought this for me as a gift and they are gone now. One of the most innovative games ive ever played and it vaccuumed hours of my life without regret.
I grew up with this game. The villagers came and gone but one always stuck around. I booted my original GameCube up this year and he was still there. Tom the blue grumpy cat. Even when I time traveled 20 years further he never left. This game has the best soundtrack, the mean villagers are so good, resetti was so memorable, the furniture sets are best. The journal. The nes games. Also BB shirt for life. I'm so sad that every game Is a stripped version of the last one especially new horizons. It feels so empty especially now that the devs stopped updating it for some reason. The original is so good I miss it always. So special.
Great video. And you’re hilarious! This was my first Animal Crossing game. The anticipation leading up to it was, absurd for me. I spent hours looking at screenshots in magazines & it truly delivered. It has such a specific vibe that hasn’t been recaptured. Wild World came really close. An incredible game!
my late brother introduced me to animal crossing wild world, i was so young and could barely read so he coached me through it. he died last year at 23, i’ve played all the way up to new horizons. i miss him so much but whenever i play i feel a bit closer to him ❤
Animal Crossing: Population Growing is 100% the best game of them all. So many childhood memories and nostalgia. The music for each hour is perfect. It means the world to me that you love it! Nothing beats the OG. ❤️
I remember being excited for new horizons music and being disappointed when I heard them. The music in the first one just blows all the other games out.
I wish they kept the old music. Sometimes when i play NH I just set up my phone to play the original animal crossingmusic. I hate the NH music it sucks.
Man the yellow magic orchestra thing blew my mind, my boyfriend is in musical studies and he told me that yellow magic orchestra are partly the parrents of digital music and I was used to listening their craziest songs I would never EVER have imagined they did a song like that
It's kind of silly to hate any of the main line animal crossing games, because let's be honest. They all have problems. But it's nice to see appreciation for the first game and all it's eccentricities. my first experiences to many things like famous paintings/statues, fish and bugs, and good portion of nes games that I would've never known about otherwise. I've played and enjoyed all of the main line animal crossing games and hope that the franchise continues on in the future. I'm just happy to see people still love this series.
i will say, there are plenty of people who grew up with this game who are now in their early 20s. population growing and wind waker were the first games i ever played- they came out when i was 2, and i've never stopped loving them.
My brother and I rented Animal Crossing from Hollywood Video in like 2002 (not sure the exact year, but I was like seven, he was like five) and became obsessed with collecting items and expanding our houses, the museum, etc. Soon after, we begged our parents to buy us a copy and I think we got it for Christmas later that year. I remember the first time we met K.K. and we were so confused about how to get him to give us music because we kept putting real song names instead of the songs that the villagers had. Lol.
Due to being a retro collector I have a unique history with Animal Crossing, I had a 3DS but never got New Leaf until later, I actually started with the original on the GameCube, never played Wild World or City Folk (despite growing up with a Wii and DS) I got New Leaf way down the line, but before the Welcome Amiibo Update, played it for a LONG while, then moved onto New Horizons, because I experienced the games in such an odd way I was able to appreciate the improvements and additions in the later games.
I was in 6th grade when this game came out and one thing that I don't see mentioned often, if ever in videos for this game is the hype and excitement that was generated for it before release. You showed the commercials as mentioned, they were strange and didn't do a good job of showing what the game was. But Nintendo Power had a 3 issue spread talking about the game. That's 3 issues in a row hyping it up and I remember reading these over and over again because I was so intrigued and excited for this game to release. I ended up loving it and playing it for over a year almost every day. I've played every main title in the series ever since and have gotten so many hours of enjoyment out of it. In my opinion, it deserves to be considered a core series in the Nintendo roster of games.
Wild world was my first back in the day, I know I have thousands upon thousands of hours into that game its still my gold child. I got the gamecube one back in 2018 cause I wanted to start a new animal crossing but I didnt want to restart a file, and the gamecube one helped me heal from a really nasty breakup and the next year the gamecube one also helped me cope with my brother dying in the hospital (he lived, thankfully:) ) I know thats a bit dark stuff but it was like a little light. 2 days after I got the game the meteor shower event happened and I just remember sitting and listening to the music and it reminded me everything will be ok. And the different fun events in the gamecube also gave me so much to look forward to, it's such a gem.
19:20 oh man, I remember one time when Resetti got so upset that he literally stole my brother's characters face. We were all freaking out! It was like a real life creepypasta But even as a kid I never minded Resetti, I thought it was so cool that Nintendo put someone like him in the game that could make consequences that drastic. He's one of my all time favorite characters and I've been sad to see him dialed down and then fired in the newer entries.
I agree with localization being the main culprit of how the series has changed. I think what really makes GC version so memorable is just how Japanese it was. These Japanese developers made a game just for themselves rooted in traditional Japanese folklore, society, and foolishness and we westerners were lucky enough to have that translated for us. Even if they did make an effort to make it more palpable for Americans, it's still very quirky and Japanese. As the series got more popular I think Nintendo felt they had to make it more "international" and a lot of the unique Japanese humor and quirkiness was pulled back
This game certainly is an experience that is much different from the other Animal Crossings. I played this game all the time when I was younger but have barely played at all in the past 5 years. Recently I decided to start a new town, record it, and upload it to UA-cam. And in the month since that’s started, I’ve truly come to appreciate how different this game’s experience is. It really is something that every Animal Crossing fan should try at some point. The features that were removed from the later games such as the raffle are very refreshing because it always gives something to look forward to. The stupid things that your villagers can do when you don’t want them to can be annoying, but also very interesting. And while some of the villagers can be complete D-bags, the dynamic between the nice and sweet villagers and the mean and angry villagers really gives a strong sense of immersion that you are living in a town just going along for the ride.
this is the first video of yours that I watched but I wanted to say your voice and line delivery are amazing, its been a while since I've found a new videogame essay channel where it feels like the talker is genuinely having a conversation with the viewer and its refreshing!
I briefly played Animal Crossing on the GameCube when I was like 10 years old. I discovered it after I went on an AOL chatroom and started chatting with a girl my age who told me to play it. Really glad she introduced me to it because it lead me to buying AC:NL ~13 years later which became my absolute favorite game with the best memories
I decided to revisit the game this may too! I actually began a little let's play series with it. I'm taking a little while to do the next episode because I'm moving irl, but once I'm finished I plan to have more regular uploads!
I got Ricky in my first town, and boy, he would always have a bad attitude (saw him in NH and wow he's much more kind). I would regularly go talk to him just to piss him off. But then, he started to open up, little by little. Eventually we became total best friends and he stopped being rude. It's not just about how rude and qwerky the characters were, but also how you could develope your relationship with them. Also I have to note how natural it was. No meters, no levels, just friendship.
Great video! I loved the history you uncovered like the married couple and the touching story of the mother. I never really enjoyed the newer Animal Crossings (haven't played Wild World) but sank many years into this one. I still remember three year old me asking my brothers what they were looking at. He revealed a new copy of Animal Crossing and said, "One of these days, this series will be a big hit."
About how slow it is to make money in this game, I suggest growing a bunch of foreign fruit trees and stocking up on a full inventory of fruit, including filling up a bunch of empty letters for extra slots. Plug in your GBA to your Gamecube/Wii (this can be done in Dolphin too with GBA emulation but it's a bit complicated) and visit the island. Drop all your fruit there and save your island data to your GBA before leaving the island. On the GBA, move the cursor to the villager's house and guide them with the cursor by pressing A on spots of land close to them not occupied with items. They will pick up fruit along the way and will start to drop money after eating a few fruits. You can make about 30,000 bells from this. Keep in mind island villagers have one fruit they dislike so they may not give money for the fruit you place on the island. Enjoy your moneys!
I remember playing this for a few hours as a kid before i would get off. I had to restart every time I played, as I didn't have a memory card. Sometimes, I would keep restarting to try and get this pink squirrel villager.
Back in 2007 my dad came to my sister and I saying “here is the new paper Mario for your Wii, but they also sent this other game for free as a promotion??” And it was Animal Crossing: Population Growing for GameCube. That moment changed my life forever. I remember being 11 and being like “ok this looks like a weird game, you just live your life with animals???” But it quickly became my sister and I’s favorite game and a source of fighting when we wanted to play at the same time. Our parents started calling the GameCube and Wii “the devil” because it made us fight so bad and we had to get it taken away for awhile until we could learn how to play the game without flipping out if we couldn’t play it 😂😂
I grew up with a gamecube in my earlier childhood and got animal crossing used when I was 5 and was hooked. I've come back to this version specifically numerous times over the course of 15 years and it never loses its charm. I've been playing it every day this summer while I've been home from college. This game transcends time for me. Every day I talk to all of my villagers despite minimal in-game rewards but their dialogue is always worth it. It's refreshing letting go of the collectionist mindset I developed during the later games and truly just existing for a little bit in a virtual world. I'm so glad I still have the original hardware to play the game.
I never really experienced it since I was extremely young playing it. Since I was I literally stopped playing because the villagers scared my smol self. When I get back to it when I get older I couldn't find it. Now.... At least we got a emulator.
Nice Video man! I lived through this and bought AC day 1 played it all the way through college. Best experience was having my now wife play the game for the first time on my OG gamecube like 10 years ago..it was magical lol
MAH HEART ❤️ ahh I recently started playing the og animal crossing and I remember being little and just believing it was really my mom sending me letters in game. I still get that warm fuzzy feeling when I see them 🥹 I’m halfway across the world from her now. Even though it’s not really my mom, it just makes me so happy and reminds me to call home.
Now imagine being 11 and experiencing this Animal Crossing without any idea of what’s going to come! No true game guide, just figuring it out as you play. Some of the best childhood memories… 💓
I cannot tell you how quickly I clicked on this video. This game has my whole heart in a vice grip, and you emphasized exactly why. Your edits SLAYED me (I literally choked on my Coke at the "bitchy pelicans") and it was clear you put your all into this project. Bless you for bringing up those commercials, too. What classics. I'm so grateful that you got to experience this gem and see what it was all about, even though it lacked some of the later polish, and even more so that you'd outright defend Eguchi's vision. Also: you got a tri-layer town!? You're a lucky duck - people used to reset over and over to get one of those.
I thought I was lucky when I got a tri-layer town... then I realized that they're a pain in the neck to get around. Still, those and other rare landscape features were fun.
I played this game 20 years ago on my gamecube with my brother, it was our childhood game. I would play for hours and when i wasn't playing i was watching my younger brother play it. No animal crossing has made me feel the way this one has. Ive played every single one and they all have parts i love but this one? This one stayed #1 in my heart
Animal Crossing population growing WAS and will always be, MY Animal Crossing. Everyone was always ranting and raving about how Metroid Prime was the best looking game on the GameCube (i agree) but i always thought AC was pretty. I'm still amazed how much they got right on their first go. Their commercials were fire too.
Check out Rockefeller, he is also very underrated:
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Idk if this is what they were going for, but I always love the idea that part of the reason Resetti is so insane is that he's basically trapped in Groundhogs day if he only appears when you cheat and start screwing with the time space continuum.
Are moles and groundhogs any different? Or are they part of a similar genus(or something like that?, like dogs compared to wolves? Idk I'm not a zoologist)
@X D bruh he's probably older than you like he has a deep voice
That story about the kids who lost their mom breaks my heart, even more so because it's the character's mom that sends a bunch of stuff. I guess they could have been getting stuff from their real mom but I bet most of it was from the in-game mom. I grew up with this game and loved every second of it. It was weird playing Animal Crossing back then...like playing some secret game that you couldn't really explain why it was fun.
I was thinking the exact same thing
wasn't expecting a tear jerker in an animal crossing gcn retrospective
My mom and I literally bonded over the Gamecube Animal Crossing. Sometimes she'd steal the console from me just to play it after work. Once she picked me up early from 6th grade, and in the parking lot when I asked if anything was wrong, she said "No, I just found a REALLY big fish in the river and I don't my reflexes enough to get it.", so she just flat-out came and got me early as a treat. It was so nice because there's a bigger age gap between me and my mom than most of my peers, so playing video games for the first time at 40+ was a challenge for her, but AC was relaxing enough that she could otherwise keep up. I moved out almost 3 years ago and one of my first big purchases with my own money was to buy her a Switch and New Horizons.
Honestly I'm so glad he touched on the deep emotional connection that the original game had for so many people. It hit me personally like a ton of bricks because I'm definitely one of them lol
Almost cried because my mom loves animal crossing too
@@msmith1613 i hope your mom like NH. it’s such a change from ACGC
I miss villagers actually having personalities.
For real I love being bullied by small animals and being praised for doing their errands 😍
@@dolcepumpkinspell4913can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not
@@Pam234that's not sarcasm, that's hornyism.
New Horizons removed a lot of the goofiness and edginess I always saw as a part of the Animal Crossing experience: Blathers no longer tells you how to cook the fish you catch, villagers almost never have any sort of conflict, the cheesy and cartoony furniture sets are mostly gone, and many of the goofy and offbeat NPCs are gone.
I’m really, really happy for the folks who love the game; it just doesn’t really feel like Animal Crossing to me anymore.
Agree!
Very much agree. I've enjoyed ACHN a lot - it's like a prettier the sims. I love decorating. But, I really miss Animal Crossing. While waiting for ACNH to release I played a bit of Wild World again and fell in love again with how much those little characters can feel real. I really wish there was something a bit more modern to fill the void that ACWW left.
@hi hungry i'm dad this is why new leaf is the best in the series. it manages to maintain the charm and atmosphere of the whole series up to that point, and manages to have brought out more content than new horizons, even now i believe.
my villagers fight a lot tbh but they only walk around angry for like 5 seconds, not even long enough for me to get the tea smh
I played the gamecube AC yesterday, and I got sent running around 7 villagers trying to find a gsmeboy, until a chicken just got pissed at me and refused to talk AT ALL!!!!
So I get distracted and come back 30 minutes later, and he's blocked up in the middle of another favor, and I can't even ask about the first I wanted from him!
So then I get the new favor accomplished, and randomly bumped into one of the characters I ALREADY ASKED ABOUT(and they said they let a friend borrow it) and they just gave it to me then(NOT EVEN THE ONE I WAS LOOKING FOR AT THAT POINT!)
And I fucking love that unnecessary frustration the characters bring lol
I'll never forget being 5 years old playing Animal crossing for the first time on the gamecube. I couldn't read yet so my mom would read everything out loud for me. I remember her laughing at how mean the villagers were too. One time late at night, around midnight, I finally finished my job at Tom Nooks (neither me or my mom knew that we had to meet the mayor 😂) I remember the two of us dancing and laughing, I was so happy to finally get to truly play the game after two weeks of running around like an idiot hahaha. She even called me in sick from school the next day so I could sleep in.
Over the years I have played every animal crossing entry since the first and always told her about it and showed her my progress. When new horizons came out I was always sending her progress pictures of my island. She never played a video game in her life but somehow animal crossing was something dear to both of our hearts. She passed away last year on Christmas Eve from a freak accident and every time I get a letter from "mom" it hits me hard. Something about the game will always feel a bit empty without her now.
@@sommarmorgon That is a very sweet story, and I'm sorry for your loss. It's amazing how such a simple innocuous game series can touch so many lives!
Wow, I am sorry for your loss. What a heartmelting story. ❤
@@mojojoro123 thank you 💖
I think the core reason for the creation of the original game is something that is really missing from New Horizons. It's so special and really captures that feeling of creating new friends and becoming part of a community. I hope Nintendo can bring that feeling back somehow in new Animal Crossing versions.
Is going to be another 6 years before we get a new animal crossing :(
Grew up with GC version. Beat the game with sibling. We had maxed out 2 houses, 2 empty houses friends would come over sometimes and progress, got all our debts paid, got golden tools, maxed museum, all fruit trees, item catalogue, got a 2nd town on separate memory card + gba cable gameplay, etc. Tried new versions, but they just don't have the same vibe.
I wish there was a new version just like the GC version, only more/better and faster inventory. The new versions don't do it right.
I know that the multiplayer isn't talked about much but it created a magical connection between my siblings and cousin. My cousin rented a room from my parents but worked late often. We'd communicate through the game by sending letters, leaving messages on the board, or just begging my mom to let us stay up to show our cousin some cool thing we found. It was a magical adventure that unfolded with exploration and time. It fostered a connection and sense of exploration. I will forever remember it for this.
The multi-player had a certain experience that I never really had till that game. The fact that you all could share a town or have seprite towns and they would still effect eatch other was fun. I remember when a village left my town to go to my friends. That was both funny and blew my mind as a kid.
What’s funny is this game wasn’t that big when it first came out, it was more of a cult game. Resetti wasn’t really about saving, he was there because you could corrupt your game if you just turned off the system. Granted my favorite thing was to keep turning off the system until resetti got too mad and sent his brother to talk to me because he was to mad lol
LMAO I forgot about that why is resetti so unhinged
I played it quite a lot as a kid, so imagine my shock when I learned it only really started taking off when wild world came out (then REALLY took off with new leaf).
No, Resetti was really about saving. The developers of the game didn't feel the game was being played properly if you reset to undo something bad that happened to you. The game doesn't corrupt just because you don't save.
I always thought "mean villagers" weren't there to stand out but for authenticity. Moving to a new town can be a cold and isolating experience. You'll make new friends but you'll also meet people you don't get along with. While the "mean villagers" stand out, the kind villagers definitely exist too (even grumpy and snooty villagers have a hidden sweet side), and the diversity is what makes the villagers feel so real to me. People definitely feel the opposite of this effect as a big complaint with NH is that the villagers feel fake rather than real, as though the game is a glorified dollhouse--far from the point of the original game.
Beyond the 6 main personalities, very unknown are the 6 islander personalities, which have key differences and often feel like completely separate personalities/characters. What's sad is that while people can emulate this game, people rarely can visit the island in the emulator, meaning these unique 6 additional personalities are also being lost to time. Also even if you visit the island, of course you only meet one islander.
If you're int'd though, here's a code to summon Kapp'n on Dolphin.
Instructions:
1. In Dolphin, go to Options->Configuration->then check Enable Cheats
2. Boot up Animal Crossing, then in Dolphin go to Tools -> Cheat Manager -> AR Code -> Add New Code
and pop in the code
04414cd4 38600001
045756a8 38600001
3. Reboot the game and Kapp'n will now always appear at the dock. When leaving the island, Kapp'n will ask if you want to "take the island with you" on your GBA, just say no to this.
I'm also logging the islander personalities and their dialogue if anyone's interested.
Thanks for this great video, it was an absolutely awesome in-depth look at this game.
Where to add this code? I followed the instructions but i cant figure out or see where to add the ar code.
@@horsehorse4601 After you've checked Enable Cheats in the Options tab, then start the game. Then back in Dolphin go to Tools -> Cheat Manager and in that the AR Code tab. You should be able to add the code this way and make sure it's turned on. Let me know if you have any more trouble!
just googled these six personalities. thank you for sharing this cuz i would’ve never known. i want to play ACGC now lol
@@AlexisTwoLastNames They were very cool! These are fan-coined names for them, but they were "stoic," "dreamer," "surfer bro," "auntie," "suave," and "ditzy." I have a page for them with their dialogue but I'm not sure how to link it here. Definitely worth playing to check them out! :D
@@geoffingoff I know this comment is 2 months old, but if you still have the page can you link it here please?
The number 1 reason I love the older animal crossing games is! BEACAUSE I don’t have to be mayor or island manager or something I just was to relax and have fun.
So basically... your job was beach. 😅
You don't have to manage anything if you don't want to. If the game is stressing you out I have a feeling you have irl problems and it's not the game. lmao. I say this as someone who doesn't really like AC:NH.
I think OP was saying how the new animal crossing game there is more of a “unseen pressure “ to manage your island to make it “the best” and with all the potential of landscaping it can become a little overwhelming. Original animal crossing you could just dink around and there was no pressure of “the best town” except for moving trees around and weeding.
The newer games have lost the goofy life sim element in favor of making the game a dollhouse to decorate, which feels too shallow to be engaging for more than a month or two. The devs always should’ve just expanded on the concepts from the original game.
Having moved to Japan a decade ago, I was so excited when I found a mint condition copy of Animal Forest for the N64 complete with box and everything at my local used game store. I got it for only ¥4,000 which is less than $40.00. It was like finding the Holy Grail on clearance.
Wow, that's so cool! Congrats :).
ok weeb 🤓
@@TTIOTTo em gee, u r such a quirky sigma alpha male!!!!!!!!!!!111111
The OG gamecube version was a blockbuster rental, 3 times... Then it became a birthday present, and got the gameboy connection cable to get to the island. Gold.
I remember my friend & I obsessing over this game in our final year of high school. Our lunch hours were 1 hour & 20 minutes long so we'd literally drive home (in my 1980 Chrysler Cordoba) just to play the game.
Crazy to think that was 2 decades ago now.
That’s amazing 😌
What!? Why such a long lunch, I'm jealous.
Lunch break was from 11:45am to 1:05pm. Not sure why.
To this day I haven't been able to find any other games that capture quite the same feeling as the original Animal Crossing. The sequels were all good in their own ways, but none of them have quite done the same things that this game did.
Wild world is probably the closest
3 layered towns are actually pretty rare in population growing. Cool to see it featured
Creator of Animal Crossing: Lets make it about friendship!
Animal Crossing: *"I'll go first, I hate you"*
In some interviews, Eguchi says the “communication game” idea was not just with the villagers, but between family members sharing a village and friends with other villages, like these touching stories in this video. Because everyone can interact with the village but not at the same time, the idea is they talk about it after, or with the bulletin board/letters. It's a kind of weird dynamic but it works.
Also, Mr. Totaka was not the composer for the hourly themes, though he probably had influence, he was the sound director. Kenta Nagata did the title and outdoor themes, including the work and hourly themes. Nagata also has worked on such bangers such as Dragon Roost Island from Wind Waker. On the topic, I also must show appreciation for Shinobu Nagata (née Tanaka), who imbued a signature style into the event themes I can only describe as "wacky", and Toru Minegishi, who not only wrote the shop themes used throughout the series but also 65 songs of different genres for K.K. to give out (Totaka arranged the live performances). So yeah, I agree the game's music is really great.
thanks for clarifying that. Never played Animal Crossing but the music I've heard is awesome.
I love this game! Never before has a game captured this feeling of loneliness in a world full of color and surprises.
In the winter, trees would be decorated, snowballs can be rolled to make actual snowmen, igloos by the villagers can be entered and have the loveliest atmosphere! When spring comes along, there's cherry blossom trees everywhere and a beautiful festival! There's stuff like Groundhog Day, or the fortune teller, or the hidden NES games, the strange gyroids, the rare pieces of art, the shady seller who comes in every now and again, the hidden treasure hunts, Nook upgrading his store, the monthly raffle for cool items, Sabel's story, the different postal worker during the evening, the golden tools, the balloon presents, and there's so, so much more to discover! Unlike New Horizons which launched with everything major already revealed, this game left a lot for the player to discover! The makes AC for GameCube a million times more memorable and impactful!
Speaking of impactful, this game really makes me feel. Sometimes, I am in my house all alone and I just hear train tracks off in the distance. Along with that there's the town bell that plays, but not many outside noises, giving me that impression that this is a town in the sticks, often quiet and sorta cozy, but also a little lonely. You start off the game with an empty house and you really must work hard to turn your house into a little sanctuary. Never before has a game felt more real. The characters even felt pretty real too. Sometimes they were overdramatic and overzealous, but there were more quiet times with them as well, where they seemed to actually like you and care. Sure, this was certainly a simple form of life, but the fact that it told the actual time made the game feel like it was really real life. It was just simply incredible!
This is a game with a lot of heart, it'll make you feel lonely, it'll make you feel angry, it'll make you feel comfort, and it'll make you surprised in both the best and worst ways. Animal crossing New Horizons is my least favorite game that I’ve ever played. It’s not even a bad game, but it just breaks my soul to see such a bastardization of one of my favorite games of all time! It truly stings. There’s still so much potential to improve what’s already here, but Nintendo will not do it the way Animal Crossing is going. I want a game where the world feels more real, not more artificial...
I see you everywhere on ac GameCube videos ! So great to see people still praising this game. It's the best ac
18:35 resetty was a special nightmare or me. When I got my first copy of AC WW, I didn’t know English. My English level was below A1. So when resetty talked to me I could not understand him and his demands. That was specially intimidating for me.
Man I remember this game being a lot more brutal then the others. Everyone always talks about the villagers being mean, but they will straight up rob you!
I remember going into a tent one of my villagers set up for the first time and playing some “games” with them. I had 95,000 bells in my pocket, which took 5 year old me so much time to get. The villager gave me 2 cards. If I pick the right one I’d get a prize. If I pick the wrong one, they get all the money in my pocket. That’s right. ALL OF IT! It was a terrifying moment for young me. I wanted to go back but I had to make the choice.
I choose wrong and lost all of my money.
Safe to say that after that whenever I went into a tent, I’d dump all of my stuff outside so I’d never have to experience that pain again.
🥺
I very much miss the old personalities of the original, you could have three villagers with the same base personality but all be wildly different because of the sub personalities that they had
The GameCube AC was the first video game I ever played. It came out when I was 7. I'm 26 now and still love that first game. Nothing else compares
Calling Animal Crossing on GameCube “Animal Crossing Population Growing” is like calling Pokémon “Pokémon Gotta Catch’em All”
Im 23 I just bought a gamecube to play animal crossing again and. Its wild to say how much I miss it? Maybe its the tonal difference between NH but its an incredible experience and I am sad most animal crossing players have missed it.
When I was a kid, I was looking for game but it wasn’t in stock so my mom said to get another game. I ended up just getting animal crossing cuz it looked cute and included a memory card. I’m so glad i did! Such a great game
I am 31, and watching this video reminded me of a very nostalgic time in my life, a very innocent time, maybe a better time, but maybe rose tinted glass. Feels like a different life. Thanks for posting this. Played this game pretty heavily from 2003 until around 2007 or even as late as 2008.
(P.S. I also tried to get Cookie to fall in love with me cus I thought maybe you could get married in game bahahaha. Didn't work. RIP my 1st love
31 myself, still feel 28 though. At least that’s what I tell myself 🥹 I played the original game when it first came out. I even got the game guide from Kmart! While it had obvious limitations then, it was still good and I respect the fact it didn’t make you into some kind of all powerful god.
I've played every game in the series, but nothing has ever trumped the original game for me. The art style, sound design, and overall vibe is just so different. I love the moody villagers, the pacing, the funky and percussive music, and the use of patterns and colors in the objects and environments. It's one of my all-time favorite games and still the version of Animal Crossing that best exemplifies what I most adore about the series.
You included almost all of my favorite parts from the original animal crossing. Thank you for showing it the love it deserves 🥰
The only part you missed was how terrifying it was to encounter Wisp
One of very few people who even acknowledges magician's quest mysterious times, I loved that game!
That story about the mother always makes me bawl like a child.
One thing I really miss about this game and era of gaming was discovering its secrets. Animal crossing GameCube had a fair amount of Easter eggs/ hidden events and items. Back then it was a little harder to prove something was real and it took longer for people to get that information out. I miss scouring forums and imagining what was possible that hadn’t been discovered yet. This game especially had such an air of mystery/ implication of a larger world that was almost eerie at times, especially to my younger self.
I love the addition of earthbound music, animal crossing and earthbound music are both my favorites
I’ve been playing a ton of animal crossing gamecube recently and it’s immediately grabbed me more than wild world or city folk purely due to the fact that it’s so much different than every other game in the series. I’ve played every day for the past couple weeks and I’m constantly finding new things that are different from future games in the series. After 2 years of new horizons it just feels like such a breath of fresh air, the villagers in gc piss me off sometimes but at least they’re making me feel anything at all lol
"Resetti lives on in the form of mashing the A button to craft things".
What a great joke, and throwing some nice shade at nintendo too haha.
I received a DVD in the mail randomly with tons of GameCube adds in like 2001 and that animal crossing add is so nostalgic to me I used to watch it and laugh over and over. Such a good game
This the only animal crossing I have ever played. So many memories of spending hours playing this game. Nintendo should do a digital release. Btw it was easy to get money... through the secret password. Thanks for the retro recap!
This video is so underrated, I hope it will take off soon!! Personally I've never played the GameCube game, my first Animal Crossing was New Leaf but it was still really nice and oddly touching to listen to you talk about this beautiful game!
27:42 was my favorite part
This will always be my favorite AC. It just has something the newer ones don't, and I've played them all extensively. This one is just max comfy especially during the holidays.
I fucking loved this game. It blew my mind as a kid and will always be number 1 for me in the series.
This video is a straight up masterpiece. Brilliant writing! So much humor and so much heart! I had never given much thought to the first animal crossing game and new leaf was my first exposure to the series but now I think I’m going to check out what started it all! Thank you 😊
The more I listen to Yellow Magic Orchestra the more I realize that every Japanese game dev was also listening to Yellow Magic Orchestra. Tong Poo is just a SNES Final Fantasy overworld theme!
I really love that opening the cinematography looks sick
I was extremely lucky to have been a teenager when AC came out on Gamecube. It is a game that blew my mind, made me want to endlessly play, and stuck with me for decades later. I'm so happy to see this getting a bit of recognition!
ACGC is my favorite entry it just has so much they never brought back into the series. Let’s not forget how every villager had a sense of identity and felt different. Not every villager was nice to you unlike In the newer entries were the villagers just feel like robots
I remember being a brat asking for a game just cause and I picked out this game cause I just wanted a game..
Man this game is amazing..nothing feels like this game ..maybe cause it was much more simple.
Anyways sorry mom and dad for being a brat when i was little but hey I found a super awesome game. Lol
That “you look like a mf uhhhhh” edit was hilarious. This video had every bit of charm and care put into it as the original Animal Crossing on the GameCube. Excellent video my man 🤌🏽
this hits so close to home. my mom was introduced to the game by her aunt, when she was pregnant with me. this same aunt is my confirmation sponsors and she almost died from kidney failure. we still have the game and my mother is now disabled at stuck home. maybe I’ll remind her of this game as something to play, it could help when she misses us or is alone
The villagers are one of the reasons Population Growing was so memorable. People love that some villagers start out less friendly and you earning their friendship.
I remember the first time I played it I got so addicted to it haha I would think about it all day and would spend hours playing as soon as I got home. New Horizons......not so much
My sister and I got a Gamecube for Xmas 2003 - we loved the animal attitudes lol. I was 12 and she was 8. They were so snarky and hilarious.
Wow, was not expecting to click on a random video about animal crossing and find a fellow syracusian. I hope you continue to enjoy our freak weather :3
You know what makes the GameCube version underrated?
Full NES games. Especially when you use an Action Replay device to unlock those that can’t be acquired otherwise. Animal Crossing GC was like the Virtual Console an entire generation before Virtual Console was a thing.
the 2AM music is definitely my favorite
Honestly this is such a solid video. I miss animal crossing gamecube so much, it definitely has such an air of mystery to it. The conversations I found weren't ever as repetitive as new horizons. There wasn't much online about it so you'd just explore and get surprised by small events all the time, and even with the money cheatcode, it would still take you hundreds of hours to pay off your debt, so you'd just resort to selling fish and fruit. It felt like you were striving for something. Getting furniture was more difficult, which made the reward of it so much greater. The soundtrack has stuck with me forever, while the other games have faded into nothing mostly.
I could get over 1 million bells in new horizons in a single day just doing the stalk market turnips and selling a few pieces of furniture. It's just been collecting dust for me lol. Seems more like the sims for creatives making nice towns and honestly, at that point just separate the games or do better integrating both play styles. Make the town interesting again, make the npc's more real. A little bit of sass was so fun.
Resetti was annoying as a kid but effective in making sure I saved every time. I miss him now, he has become a nostalgic memory
i grew up playing new leaf (it came out when i was in 6th grade i think), but at the beginning of quarantine a little before new horizons came out i started playing animal crossing gamecube. then after i got sick of new horizons i kept playing gamecube animal crossing. i couldnt see my friends in real life because everyone was still really scared of covid so i would just sit in my room alone playing it most days that summer. i dont know if it eased the isolation or made it worse but it sure made me feel something. i have a lot of memories of the game now so this video really hit me in the feels. i really do think more people should play it
This video was just recommended to the right person.
Man, as a fan that started with gamecube, it really hurts me to see what they have done with new horizons... It doesn't feel the same. I does not MAKE me feel the same way. I liked the simplicity and the logic in Gamecube, and it managed to carry itself to new leaf... But new horizons just feels disingenuous to me, like it was made specifically to banish all of the animal crossing from animal crossing. I still like new horizons, but hearing people talk about Population Growing and remembering it myself... Makes me glad to have started way back then!
That said: You didn't mention Retro TV's sound on the music portion and for that you must be punished. Though it is not up to me to say what that punishment might be.
Thank you for showing love to this game. It means a lot to me since someone i loved bought this for me as a gift and they are gone now. One of the most innovative games ive ever played and it vaccuumed hours of my life without regret.
I grew up with this game. The villagers came and gone but one always stuck around. I booted my original GameCube up this year and he was still there. Tom the blue grumpy cat. Even when I time traveled 20 years further he never left.
This game has the best soundtrack, the mean villagers are so good, resetti was so memorable, the furniture sets are best. The journal. The nes games. Also BB shirt for life. I'm so sad that every game Is a stripped version of the last one especially new horizons.
It feels so empty especially now that the devs stopped updating it for some reason.
The original is so good I miss it always. So special.
Great video. And you’re hilarious! This was my first Animal Crossing game. The anticipation leading up to it was, absurd for me. I spent hours looking at screenshots in magazines & it truly delivered. It has such a specific vibe that hasn’t been recaptured. Wild World came really close. An incredible game!
I love this game and we'll the Game Cube in general. Thank you for giving this game in the series the respect it deserves.
my late brother introduced me to animal crossing wild world, i was so young and could barely read so he coached me through it. he died last year at 23, i’ve played all the way up to new horizons. i miss him so much but whenever i play i feel a bit closer to him ❤
Animal Crossing: Population Growing is 100% the best game of them all. So many childhood memories and nostalgia. The music for each hour is perfect. It means the world to me that you love it! Nothing beats the OG. ❤️
I remember being excited for new horizons music and being disappointed when I heard them. The music in the first one just blows all the other games out.
I wish they kept the old music. Sometimes when i play NH I just set up my phone to play the original animal crossingmusic. I hate the NH music it sucks.
Man the yellow magic orchestra thing blew my mind, my boyfriend is in musical studies and he told me that yellow magic orchestra are partly the parrents of digital music and I was used to listening their craziest songs I would never EVER have imagined they did a song like that
It's kind of silly to hate any of the main line animal crossing games, because let's be honest. They all have problems. But it's nice to see appreciation for the first game and all it's eccentricities. my first experiences to many things like famous paintings/statues, fish and bugs, and good portion of nes games that I would've never known about otherwise. I've played and enjoyed all of the main line animal crossing games and hope that the franchise continues on in the future. I'm just happy to see people still love this series.
i will say, there are plenty of people who grew up with this game who are now in their early 20s. population growing and wind waker were the first games i ever played- they came out when i was 2, and i've never stopped loving them.
My brother and I rented Animal Crossing from Hollywood Video in like 2002 (not sure the exact year, but I was like seven, he was like five) and became obsessed with collecting items and expanding our houses, the museum, etc. Soon after, we begged our parents to buy us a copy and I think we got it for Christmas later that year. I remember the first time we met K.K. and we were so confused about how to get him to give us music because we kept putting real song names instead of the songs that the villagers had. Lol.
Due to being a retro collector I have a unique history with Animal Crossing, I had a 3DS but never got New Leaf until later, I actually started with the original on the GameCube, never played Wild World or City Folk (despite growing up with a Wii and DS) I got New Leaf way down the line, but before the Welcome Amiibo Update, played it for a LONG while, then moved onto New Horizons, because I experienced the games in such an odd way I was able to appreciate the improvements and additions in the later games.
I was in 6th grade when this game came out and one thing that I don't see mentioned often, if ever in videos for this game is the hype and excitement that was generated for it before release. You showed the commercials as mentioned, they were strange and didn't do a good job of showing what the game was. But Nintendo Power had a 3 issue spread talking about the game. That's 3 issues in a row hyping it up and I remember reading these over and over again because I was so intrigued and excited for this game to release. I ended up loving it and playing it for over a year almost every day. I've played every main title in the series ever since and have gotten so many hours of enjoyment out of it. In my opinion, it deserves to be considered a core series in the Nintendo roster of games.
Wild world was my first back in the day, I know I have thousands upon thousands of hours into that game its still my gold child. I got the gamecube one back in 2018 cause I wanted to start a new animal crossing but I didnt want to restart a file, and the gamecube one helped me heal from a really nasty breakup and the next year the gamecube one also helped me cope with my brother dying in the hospital (he lived, thankfully:) ) I know thats a bit dark stuff but it was like a little light. 2 days after I got the game the meteor shower event happened and I just remember sitting and listening to the music and it reminded me everything will be ok. And the different fun events in the gamecube also gave me so much to look forward to, it's such a gem.
I'm 24 now use to play this when I was 8 when my cousin introduced it to me and made a save on my memory card. I still have it sitting around too
19:20 oh man, I remember one time when Resetti got so upset that he literally stole my brother's characters face. We were all freaking out! It was like a real life creepypasta
But even as a kid I never minded Resetti, I thought it was so cool that Nintendo put someone like him in the game that could make consequences that drastic. He's one of my all time favorite characters and I've been sad to see him dialed down and then fired in the newer entries.
I agree with localization being the main culprit of how the series has changed. I think what really makes GC version so memorable is just how Japanese it was. These Japanese developers made a game just for themselves rooted in traditional Japanese folklore, society, and foolishness and we westerners were lucky enough to have that translated for us. Even if they did make an effort to make it more palpable for Americans, it's still very quirky and Japanese. As the series got more popular I think Nintendo felt they had to make it more "international" and a lot of the unique Japanese humor and quirkiness was pulled back
I still love this game I just broke out my GameCube again this year to have the other villagers complaining that I was gone for 64 months
This game certainly is an experience that is much different from the other Animal Crossings. I played this game all the time when I was younger but have barely played at all in the past 5 years. Recently I decided to start a new town, record it, and upload it to UA-cam. And in the month since that’s started, I’ve truly come to appreciate how different this game’s experience is. It really is something that every Animal Crossing fan should try at some point.
The features that were removed from the later games such as the raffle are very refreshing because it always gives something to look forward to. The stupid things that your villagers can do when you don’t want them to can be annoying, but also very interesting. And while some of the villagers can be complete D-bags, the dynamic between the nice and sweet villagers and the mean and angry villagers really gives a strong sense of immersion that you are living in a town just going along for the ride.
this is the first video of yours that I watched but I wanted to say your voice and line delivery are amazing, its been a while since I've found a new videogame essay channel where it feels like the talker is genuinely having a conversation with the viewer and its refreshing!
I briefly played Animal Crossing on the GameCube when I was like 10 years old. I discovered it after I went on an AOL chatroom and started chatting with a girl my age who told me to play it. Really glad she introduced me to it because it lead me to buying AC:NL ~13 years later which became my absolute favorite game with the best memories
I decided to revisit the game this may too!
I actually began a little let's play series with it. I'm taking a little while to do the next episode because I'm moving irl, but once I'm finished I plan to have more regular uploads!
I got Ricky in my first town, and boy, he would always have a bad attitude (saw him in NH and wow he's much more kind). I would regularly go talk to him just to piss him off. But then, he started to open up, little by little. Eventually we became total best friends and he stopped being rude.
It's not just about how rude and qwerky the characters were, but also how you could develope your relationship with them. Also I have to note how natural it was. No meters, no levels, just friendship.
Perhaps many have missed the "bonding" feature by just avoiding the rude villagers. Kinda teaches a life lesson huh.
Great video! I loved the history you uncovered like the married couple and the touching story of the mother.
I never really enjoyed the newer Animal Crossings (haven't played Wild World) but sank many years into this one.
I still remember three year old me asking my brothers what they were looking at. He revealed a new copy of Animal Crossing and said, "One of these days, this series will be a big hit."
About how slow it is to make money in this game, I suggest growing a bunch of foreign fruit trees and stocking up on a full inventory of fruit, including filling up a bunch of empty letters for extra slots. Plug in your GBA to your Gamecube/Wii (this can be done in Dolphin too with GBA emulation but it's a bit complicated) and visit the island. Drop all your fruit there and save your island data to your GBA before leaving the island. On the GBA, move the cursor to the villager's house and guide them with the cursor by pressing A on spots of land close to them not occupied with items. They will pick up fruit along the way and will start to drop money after eating a few fruits. You can make about 30,000 bells from this. Keep in mind island villagers have one fruit they dislike so they may not give money for the fruit you place on the island. Enjoy your moneys!
I remember playing this for a few hours as a kid before i would get off. I had to restart every time I played, as I didn't have a memory card. Sometimes, I would keep restarting to try and get this pink squirrel villager.
Back in 2007 my dad came to my sister and I saying “here is the new paper Mario for your Wii, but they also sent this other game for free as a promotion??” And it was Animal Crossing: Population Growing for GameCube.
That moment changed my life forever. I remember being 11 and being like “ok this looks like a weird game, you just live your life with animals???” But it quickly became my sister and I’s favorite game and a source of fighting when we wanted to play at the same time.
Our parents started calling the GameCube and Wii “the devil” because it made us fight so bad and we had to get it taken away for awhile until we could learn how to play the game without flipping out if we couldn’t play it 😂😂
Love your use of the Elebits music. Hidden Gem.
I grew up with a gamecube in my earlier childhood and got animal crossing used when I was 5 and was hooked. I've come back to this version specifically numerous times over the course of 15 years and it never loses its charm. I've been playing it every day this summer while I've been home from college. This game transcends time for me. Every day I talk to all of my villagers despite minimal in-game rewards but their dialogue is always worth it. It's refreshing letting go of the collectionist mindset I developed during the later games and truly just existing for a little bit in a virtual world. I'm so glad I still have the original hardware to play the game.
I never really experienced it since I was extremely young playing it. Since I was I literally stopped playing because the villagers scared my smol self. When I get back to it when I get older I couldn't find it.
Now.... At least we got a emulator.
The instant you made the Syracuse joke I never moved my finger fast enough to sub because what a mood lmfaooooo
Nice Video man! I lived through this and bought AC day 1 played it all the way through college. Best experience was having my now wife play the game for the first time on my OG gamecube like 10 years ago..it was magical lol
MAH HEART ❤️ ahh I recently started playing the og animal crossing and I remember being little and just believing it was really my mom sending me letters in game. I still get that warm fuzzy feeling when I see them 🥹 I’m halfway across the world from her now. Even though it’s not really my mom, it just makes me so happy and reminds me to call home.
Now imagine being 11 and experiencing this Animal Crossing without any idea of what’s going to come! No true game guide, just figuring it out as you play.
Some of the best childhood memories…
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Was lucky enough to grow up with this one I’ll never forget my mom getting it for me after karate class one weekend
Resetti acknowledges on the first time it may be an accident. He only goes crazy and gets mad if you continuously reset over and over.
i'm actually playing the gamecube version right now. I paid off the first loan and mailed almost 7 or 8 fossil letters. can't wait for tomorrow! 😁
I cannot tell you how quickly I clicked on this video. This game has my whole heart in a vice grip, and you emphasized exactly why. Your edits SLAYED me (I literally choked on my Coke at the "bitchy pelicans") and it was clear you put your all into this project. Bless you for bringing up those commercials, too. What classics. I'm so grateful that you got to experience this gem and see what it was all about, even though it lacked some of the later polish, and even more so that you'd outright defend Eguchi's vision.
Also: you got a tri-layer town!? You're a lucky duck - people used to reset over and over to get one of those.
I thought I was lucky when I got a tri-layer town... then I realized that they're a pain in the neck to get around. Still, those and other rare landscape features were fun.
I played this game 20 years ago on my gamecube with my brother, it was our childhood game. I would play for hours and when i wasn't playing i was watching my younger brother play it. No animal crossing has made me feel the way this one has. Ive played every single one and they all have parts i love but this one? This one stayed #1 in my heart
genuinely my favorite channel on UA-cam at the moment really hope you stick with it my friend🙏
Animal Crossing population growing WAS and will always be, MY Animal Crossing.
Everyone was always ranting and raving about how Metroid Prime was the best looking game on the GameCube (i agree) but i always thought AC was pretty.
I'm still amazed how much they got right on their first go.
Their commercials were fire too.
Not me crying at the mom part *sobs*