Animal antics

The latest chapter in the story of chilled-out game Animal Crossing.

Fishing, growing fruit, collecting dinosaur bones… and talking to friendly animals. It’s all in a day’s play for people who love the Animal Crossing games – a series that has been popular for a long time. The first Animal Crossing game came out 23 years ago. It was created by two developers at Nintendo in Japan: Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami. “We came up with a game where you hang out and do stuff with a bunch of people in a single field. Then, one by one, we started coming up with more ideas,” said Eguchi. The game’s creators are proud of its popularity with families, after adverts for the first game in 2001 focused on young people. “Once we released it, the mothers of these children were also playing…

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