I Spent 100 Days In Animal Crossing...on the Nintendo Gamecube
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- As everyone nowadays is busy playing Animal Crossing New Horizons, I decided to go back in time and play the old Animal Crossing Population Growing for the Nintendo Gamecube. Years later is the game still good? Am I biased to nostalgia?
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I miss the villagers starting off indifferent or outright mean in the older games, made it more satisfying to become friends with them
They stayed mean tho. It used to make me cry when I was young, lol.
@@HLidaze Some people just arent gonna like you tho, its more realistic that way. It made me sad as well whenever a villager was mean and i would even avoid 1 villager in my town because he was such a jerk lol if anything i think it kinda teaches kids that not everyones gonna like you and thats okay, then they learn to just avoid those people rather than new horizons where everyone loves anything you do and say for no reason at all
@@crackhead898 I Definitely agree with you there, an NPC Not liking you sucks but its realistic, and not everyone will like you instantly the first time they meet you. AC:NH's Villagers just kind of like you immediately which sucks for people who like to build relationships with the characters.
@@HLidaze Let's be real, you didn't cry, you just say that to make yourself look cool or something. Also they did not stay mean. They had personalities. Snooties were snooty, and grumpies were grumpy
@@TraceguyRune They lied about crying to look cool...? Is crying cool now? I'm even more out of touch than I thought, I guess.
My sister was maybe 6 or 7 and she wrote a letter to Kiki. But because she was so young, the letter was a mess. In English, it would look something like "helo kiki i hop you wil like my gifft"
We played this game for years, and every once in a while, I'd talk to Kiki and she would be so excited to show me this really sweet letter she got. It got to the point where my sister was older and would be embarrassed to see it. But there was also something deeply charming, like Kiki just kept this three years-old letter with her at all time because she liked it so much. She also stayed in the village forever, and was one of our favorites to talk to.
Fast forward like 15 years, and Kiki was one of the villagers moving in early in the game on my island in ACNH, and it felt like stumbling back on an old friend. She doesn't have that letter anymore, but I remember my sister on speakerphone, visiting me from her Switch, and just SCREAMING when she found out Kiki was here. And she's still as sweet.
So yes, please do protect Kiki at all costs.
Cringe
That’s so sweet! I just like Kiki because she looks like my cat lol
If i find kiki i will immediately convince her to go to my island for your sake
Kiki was my best friend in the game. She is my favorite villager and always wanted her in my town in future games
@@watergirl929 cap
Did you know your Villagers can just plain rob you in this game? They can see something in your pockets and then FORCE you to give it to them, and there's no way to back out. IIRC they do give you something in return but still.
So, imagine this. I am playing this game and I didn't have a bed. I really WANTED a bed, my poor villager was sleeping on the floor. One day I walk into Nook's Cranny, and I see it, a bed. I finally get my bed after weeks of sleeping on the floor. I buy it instantly. I then walk around town, none the wiser to this little feature. I come across Bunnie. She runs up to me suddenly, and forces me to give her my precious bed. She already HAS a bed. I want to keep my bed but I am given no choice. I have to give up my bed to Bunnie. I stare at my screen in shock and horror. I have to wait for Nook to sell another bed. Again. My rage for Bunnie increases. Hatred, Malice, all in my veins over this fictional rabbit. This virtual THIEF. She then starts singing and dancing, the little swindler is proud of what she did. My contempt is now permanent. I hate this rabbit so much, You don't need another bed Bunnie I know you don't have a boyfriend, girlfriend or any kind of partner, you just wanted the light to fade from my eyes you cruel fiend.
Anyways the Gamecube game is probably my favorite, even though I started with New Leaf (and its many QOL improvements)
This is quite possibly my favorite comment on CZcams
Your wording for this was perfection and I now loathe this rabbit with you
reading this was a real ride
god tier comment
I lost a rare item that way, I think it was a painting from Redd. I was pissed cuz unlike other items you can't just order a replacement from Nook. Any vendor, lottery or special item you acquire will show up in your catalog but are unavailable for purchase. Worse is I think she gave me a common shirt in return. F*in' b*!
You are so funny 😂 i feel like you’d make a great youtuber or streamer
Lol Marcy moving in and then immediately moving out happened to me, but with Pierce. eight year old me was so offended. i was like, "ohhhh i get it!! my town isn't good enough for you, IS IT?! IS IT?!"
eight year old you was a SAVAGE though
It's not your town. That is why I love the older games so much. They make it very clear that you are a newcomer. The place exists without you. You have to fit in. New Horizons isn't a bad game by any means but you are literally god. Everything only exists at your will. Including villager.
@@requiemagent3014 Its almost worst in the new games because you're made out to be a franchisee buying into a private island selling scheme.
@@requiemagent3014 I disagree. You aren't that. You're the island rep. Nothing more than that
@@Twinklethefox9022 What the hell are you talking about? You are god. Quite literally. Not only do you have absolute power over every single villager you can, again, quite literally bend the earth to your will. You definitely need to play any AC game before new leaf. Those games are remarkably different
Man I love the older animal crossing games. They made it so clear that the place exist without you. You are new here and you better try to fit in. They don't need you. I love that. New Horizons turned you into a god and everything is at your will. It took away to much personality from the game.
Stopped playing acnh so quickly, still go back and play acpg and accf though
acnh is for people who want to have full control over every element of the game; it’s just for people with different playstyles who prefer being able to control near every aspect of their world
@@lord_ozymandias it's like the Sims with extra steps. Never been a fan of Sims so acnh just ain't for me
@@CaseyHayesVocals ehhh i’ve played acnh and sims 4 religiously and they’re pretty different but yeah they follow the same fundamental of “you have complete control over everything, including the majority of the characters and how things look” so
@@lord_ozymandias yeah I meant purely that fundamental. Sims you can change everything quickly acnh takes forever to do anything lol
I giggled when I heard "We got Redd on our island" we've been so conditioned from news horizions 😆
When I was in school, we had to write a letter to an imaginary relative about going to see a Shakespeare performance at the theatre back in the 1600s.
Loads of people kept using the word "film" or "movie" instead of "play" or "show."
@@reloadpsiWhat does this, have to do with this?
@@JacksonDevicesconditioning.
@@JacksonDevicesabsolutely nothing I guess
The non negotiable hats are such an interesting choice
It was an easy way to save on assets. Every player used one of 2 base models depending on gender. The details were just different textures. It was done to keep the game small enough to fit in the GameCube's ram. You can boot up animal crossing, remove the disc, and the game will still be completely playable until the GameCube is turned off.
@@chadmasta5 The fact that Animal Crossing was on the N64 first and this is an upgraded port, supports that.
@@tonytwonukes7272*t(hat)
I like the older games because the Villagers actually get mad and can be quite rude, which is great, because that breaks up the monotony.
Also loved how you could do things for them. I finally decided to play the first AC game last year because of everything i've heard, plus my husband owns it so why not.
I LOVED the errand system and how villagers actually seemed to have personality. We weren't friends right off the bat, you had to work for it and hope they wouldn't decide to just up and move away. (which i also liked how they had their own autonomy for that too)
The spikes in this game are set to be 8x the buying price! So if you really want to gamble, it's definitely worthwhile to go in on the expensive turnips - that's why it was so high here
I love how the entire video he refers to his town as an island, despite the island thing not being around until the newest entry 😅
Technically there is an island in this game, it's just separate from the village.
As someone completely new to the franchise, I can say I absolutely adore this game! When I heard about AC I decided to start at the beginning, and I'm just a little over my first 100 days. It's so quirky and unique and the absolute best de-stresser when I come home from work.
Welcome to the community! It’s been quite, a lot have moved on from the series (me too) but after watching videos like this, I got motivation again. I don’t know which game u r exactly playing but I can tell you, New Leaf is the best one, it’s best of both worlds between island designing and villager interactions. New Horizons is more focused on island designing hence a lot of players stopped playing it.
I play it just before bed every night and sleep so good. Just really puts me in a wholesome comfy mood and make curling up in bed sweeter
Give the old games a try. They’re the best. You’ll really enjoy it.
@@KimCher007 I'm still playing gamecube and wild world, but new leaf has honestly been my least favourite so far 😅
@vanyadolly are you emulating or playing on original hardware
I just reached the letter part of the video and I think I remember that you have to write full sentences back then, no slang, no short letters, you basically had to write little essays otherwise they would react like they did here. The original AC was absolutely wild but it's always so nostalgic to be back. Makes we want to get out my GC and visit my town from 2004 with its 4 paid off houses ... I have an AC problem XD
When I first start playing Wild World in 2006, that what I was told. You have to spell correctly. Writing gibberish would make them not so ecstatic about your letters.
it's funny because i automatically wrote them full-fledged letters from the start, since i got so invested and i really wanted them to be my friends :'))
@@LucyLoveheart88964 Me too! 😂 Back in the day I also wrote mean letters to an ostrich who had been terribly rude to me. She always replied with how my letters made her happy 🤣
@@raffaelm6558 those were the BEST ahahah especially after you put in a lot of work to put them back into place. also wrote letters to certain villagers to stop bullying my friends, and made sure to plant some pitfall seeds around their houses as revenge. to make sure they GET it
I wrote "Hi, welcome to the town!" to someone who moved in [Think it was Sydney] and she still couldn't read my letter, she needs to go back to freaking kindergarten.
its really funny to me how his skin color just changes like 42 minutes in
The game would make you darker the more time you spend in the sun to motivate players to use umbrellas but obviously this wasn't the best mechanic internationally. Also if people wanted a darker skin to represent themselves they would just leave the game run while standing outside lol
@@Unfortu.nartely didn’t the game also make you the default skin color the less time you spent outside too (after that)?
@@Unfortu.nartely i know! ive been playing since gamecube :)
@@christoperaaron8218 yeah it wore off iiirc
“Nook is buying bells at 60 bells a pop” 🤔
6:50 bro when you said "island" just broke my heart... *all the way up to new horizons they have been called towns*
100 days? Cute. I spent my whole childhood in this game. 😤
Right? Try 3+ years lmaoooo
@@CarlDillynson more like 8 my dude lmao
Lol yeah, I got this for my birthday I think when I was 5. When it just came out I had no interest in trying it until my brother decided to try it. And after watching him I became addicted to the game. It was without a doubt my biggest childhood game. So many years put into it. And even now at almost 26 I still have that memory card and my town. Always there for me to revisit if I want!
Literally. This game had me by the nostalgic heart strings for the last 20 years of my life. 😭😂
@@zer0hartsuhm try 50 years sweetie ✨
The GameCube is amazing I can’t even begin to expect explain how nostalgic this game is for me! Ahhh I’d do anything to go back to those simpler times. Playing early Saturday mornings at my grandparents house. Smell of
Coffee and cinnamon toast filling the air. My grandpa playing the guitar with animal crossing music going on in the background. Sunrise peeking through the window. Grandma said friends can spend the night and we can order pizza!! Make a fort out of pillows and play animal crossing all day n night long ♥️
26:42 I loved the mean characters. When you became friends with them it felt rewarding. In real life, people also start becoming nicer to you when you are nice to them. In Animal Crossing New Horizons, they act like you're a celebrity, an icon or a pop culture figure, which always felt wrong to me. You could do anything with the villagers, they seemed to have the same individualism as a computer. Which is a shame, because imo Animal Crossing used to have so much personality in each character back then.
I love this! I never had a gamecube so I missed out on this piece of history. But I still have my copy of wild world from when I was a kid and this makes me want to go back and play. So quiet and simple and the animals are so fun to talk to. I love how mean they are. I hope your wife enjoys the town!!!
You can actually play GameCube games on a wii! Just need a controller
@@CeeGeeFursuits this is not the best thing to see after my parents tossed out my wii. rip
I wish villagers in New Horizons could at least have some sort of personality. I would love to have a villager that absolutely hates me
"A saturday summer night in the summertime" lol
12:39 I think a Pokemon Pikachu was this weird Tamagotchi thing that encouraged walking
Yeah
I played the gamecube AC as a kid for over a YEAR before I even learned fishing rods were in the game. Nook never sold them.
I refuse to forgive him for that. Love the video!
idk why it's bugging me so much that you didn't seem to know this trick, but you should have kept four letters in your mail section of your pockets so you can store your tools in them and use the extra space as, you know, Inventory. Keep the letters ppl have sent to you so you don't accidentally mail your shovel to the museum or something. Anyways, great video! Take my likes and may many more come your way as well.
Speaking as someone who played the ever loving shit out of that game at the time, I didn't even think of this as a possibility or even an idea.
Huh never heard of that tricj
He didn't used the trick to get around the 3 passwords a day limit either nor use any passwords.
Omg yeah my older sisters told me about that haha
26:11 I remembered back in the days. I used to bring the coconuts back home, planted them nearby the beach. Then make some random separate save files and travel to different towns and bring back home the foreign fruit trees to make bank.
I love the original GameCube Animal Crossing, I used to play it all the time
Thanks for reminding me of those good memories
An amazing series! I’m still shocked how the turnips was 1004 bells/turnip! Anyway, thank you for letting me experience this retro throwback! 🥰
Bro the Gamecube logo looks so good it looked like it was edited in at first XD
I played Animal Crossing on the GameCube when I was very very young, and when I was still young I played New Leaf (never exactly the same but very similar). Watching his video made me feel so nostalgic… remembering all the little details missing from New Leaf. God. This video made me feel quite happy.
Ngl hearing you drop everything off to your wife, who can appreciate the game at its fullest, it's super heart warming.
This is why I don't do turnips. It's too much of a gamble so I just sell bugs, fish,fossils and maybe ore (for new leaf) to make bells
congrats, you've made me a boomer at age 22, because i now know what 60 year olds feel like when they see infants get confused by old technology
Dang Luigi doesn't get his own name used. You out here just calling him green Mario. Like there is an entire L on his hat. Whoo this cracked me up 🤣😂. GREAT video!
Every time he referred to the town as island, I just smiled. Brother loves New Horizons 😂😂😂
Honestly I do the opposite and keep calling my island my village. I am so used to how past games used to be. 💀
@@TylerLarew Understandable!
Probably just force of habit honestly. I get it.
so much nostalgia for this game although it doesn’t have as much that makes all the fun things that do happen that much more special. I’m only 17 but ACGC was my first Animal Crossing and my first video game and ive been hooked since quite honestly I was so surprised when New Horizons shot up in popularity even more so than new leaf did it bring more people to the community : ) also imo the music is the best in this one 💃🏼
This man legit spent 2400 hours in animal crossing… that’s dedication!
were they in game days or real life days tho
@@deadassnick do you not know how animal crossing works? In the context of animal crossing in game days and real life days are the same thing…
I spent over 3k hours in ACNH
@@spsaofficalchannel it's entirely possible he could emulated the game, to advance days
@@spsaofficalchannelhe could have time skipped
oh damn, all the nostalgia coming back. i grew up on this game. I think I was like in 4th or 5th grade when my parents bought me a game cube and this was the first game they got me. i remember all the commercials they had promoting it lols!
You're better then i was at bellmaking, as a kid i just grinded catching red snappers and zebra fish until i was at the end
0:02 ah yes, my favorite part of new leaf.
So cute for you to do that for your wife
I'd think it'd be cool if you made a video talking about the upgrades & features added from game to game. Its interesting seeing the progression of this series. As a bonus maybe even mention what features were dropped. Your videos are a lot of fun to watch, keep up the great work. 😃
Animal crossing is how I became a hustler. 7 years old with a mortgage to pay off 😂😂😂
Animal Crossing is a popular video game where players get to live in a virtual town with animal characters. In the game, players can go fishing, catch bugs, and decorate their homes. They can also make friends with other animal residents and participate in various activities. Overall, Animal Crossing is a fun and engaging game that allows players to create their own virtual world and enjoy a relaxing gaming experience.
I found a little money making strategy in this game that few people seem to know about. If you set your time to early or mid April, you can fish up mostly Red Snappers and Barred Knife Jaws in the ocean and make a pretty good profit from fishing. Sea Bass become much less common durn this time. Not sure if this was intentional or a coding over sight but it's great!
Omg, the responses to letters killed me!!! I want these sassy villagers back !
It was kitty who burried the live Hamster, once you dug up the evidence they had to flee the crime scene 😂
Your story telling is just great! You manage to make it neither obvious whats next nor make one feel misguided while being so interesting. Fantastic content! :)
Y'know, 100 days doesn't seem like that much at first because most 100 days videos go by in-game time, but then you realize that Animal Crossing synchronizes the game time with real time. So this video probably took over 3 months to make😨. Props to Elijah for this
You can manipulate time in this game after you save Quit. Go forward or back days, weeks, years. Though going backwards can mess the game up
@@judgebredd8852 I know, still impressed nonetheless :)
I've been going back to play the gamecube version a bit lately (actually made a new villager so I could preserve my childhood save while still starting anew) and it's really been so much fun just rediscovering it all again
absolutely loved this video!
This was so relaxing to watch! 🥰
18:30 iirc, spikes in this game are always 8x the amount joan sold the turnips for. so it's actually better to buy high if you want to make a large profit.
Nook gets a bad rep but the dudes a hero!, Interest free mortgage with no upfront deposit after zero credit checks and he even offers you a job. My guy sees a stranger without a penny to his name and takes a chance on you! Who would do that for a homeless dude IRL?!?
I had no idea turnip spikes could be over a 1000 bells. I still haven't picked my jaw up off the floor from seeing that.
This video just so happens to've been uploaded on the day I started playing Animal Crossing. Kinda cool seeing the game's roots.
The differences remind me of differences in The Sims 1 and 2 compared to The Sims 3 and 4. More edge and quirkiness, although the later games have personality and lots of gameplay too. Obtaining stuff you needed was way harder. The character creator/customization and building mechanics weren't as fleshed out as they became in later games.
Did you know that the oldest animal crossing game is actually not the gamecube version but the Japanese exclusive that was named Dōbutsu no Mori (lit. "Animal Forest")
Yeah the GameCube version was the first world wide release, but it was just a port of Dobutsu no Mori with some added features. I think there was actually someone who did a project and translated all of the N64 version into English. The Everdrive 3.0 has clock support so you could put that onto a SD card pop it in the Everdrive and enjoy Animal Crossing on the N64. Pretty neat.
Elijah:nothings gonna distract us were paying things off
Also Elijah:ooo Tom nook is selling a tv
4:00
Animal Crossing was originally released (in Japan only) on Nintendo 64. 15 seconds on Wikipedia would have been enough to verify.
The actual odds of a money tree producing money is so low in this game that it's never worth it to plant them. The fact that he was able to get so many to produce bells is a statistical anomaly
I remember feeding the island villager through the gameboy (with coconuts) made it poop out bells. No idea how I remember that years later but yeah
😧 did I read that correctly?!?! 7100 BELLS?!?! Man I wish the GameCubes turnip stock market was in new horizons…
The best way I found as a kid to make bells was fishing for red snappers and barred knife jaws. Or if you know how, the duplication glitch
This was actually so fun to watch. I never got into animal crossing but now I really want to.
Stationary is crazy valuable in Population Growing.
Getting it as a reward for errands is great.
I really like this video. It pisses me off that they left this game rot on the GameCube and N64. I really wish I could have experienced it. Something about it just seems simpler than New Horizons. And it’s always nice to start with simpler games, learn the mechanics and whatnot and then just keep adding to that knowledge as subsequent games come out.
Randomly started by stumbling onto the wild world one which made me a bit nostalgic and i got this game in my childhood too but more after. Been a blast. 🥰
Still my favorite game in the series. There was just such a unique charm to the first Animal Crossing. I wish certain stuff carried over to the later games like the journal, playable game consoles, and random sports balls you can kick around. And I wish the villagers still had unique personalities and a variety of interesting dialogue. Now a days they’re just bland, repetitive, and serve as more of a decoration to your island than an actual fun npc to interact with. I still want to one day play the game everyday for an entire year. The closest I’ve gotten was 7 months.
"What's a Lil Bro shirt? WHAT!? Clever I'm green Mario now! "💀 😂😂😅
I love this video a lot and watched it all the way through! Your content is great keep it up!
The playability in this version was never owning the $60 guide book and having to figure out as a child that new stuff came in and out of the game every month, fish, bugs, vendors, etc. Then you had to try and finish the collections at the museum. I remember having to barrow a cable from my friend to connect my GBA to the game cube just to experience "coconut island". I would time travel to the new year event just so I could get mailed 10000 Bells. Once you found out you could catch coelacanth and how much they would sell for??? rainy days were the best days. No other game at that time worked on "real time" or had changing seasons. It was a real game changer back then
A really cool challenge would be getting a BRONZE statue. That would require paying off three full debts. I've never even seen the silver statue. It wouldnt be 3x as hard tho since your money goes up exponentially with the stalk market
Why not pay off all 4 and get the emerald statue? ;)
Drove me nuts every time you said island. It’s a towwwwnnnn
Going to have so much nostalgia watching this. I can remember that intro train like it was yesterday
Who else was yelling “sell the shells!!!!” 😅
Please keep this kind of gameplay going!! I love AC
the little "who are you? ... okay hi" everytime he sees a new villiager is really adorable :D
Amazing video dude. Love to see it. Surprised it doesn’t have that many views though. Maybe just need to promote this channel more on rocketsloth.
Tbh I wouldn’t mind if this was just on your main channel 😊
Dude when he said "I'm green mario now" I started cracking up lol i had a gamecube since i was like 1-3? idk but i never had animal crossing on it.. now that i know that there is animal crossing gamecube i am buying it now
the turnip price spike is actualy not that rare. it (under perfect conditions) should happen every 12-14 days and its 8X what you bought them for (so the more you pay the more you get)
This is the first game i ever played back in the early 2000s. So many great memories
Leaving your AC world to your wife was really sweet. They really need to bring back those playable NES games though
"Don't make Nook break your thumbs (0:20)"
It's Tom Nook a relative to Duolingo ????
I'm glad there's an active decompilation project for animal forest for the n64 so we can get a solid English translation of it. The current one doesn't work properly 😢
“Green Mario” 😂
0:23 My dude, you got to get homestead exemption through your county Property Appraiser office. It should essentially lock your property tax rate to the year you bought it. Only small increases at that point. My parents only pay like $200 more than they did in 2004 when they bought their house. It just HAS to be your primary residence in your state of residence. Can't be a rental or 2nd home you live in for less than 6 months per year. Generally, at least.
Lmaooooo
This was my first gamecube game. We got it with the special memory card.
This game was legendary to me as a kid. It sucks to see the personality fade in it over the years.
New Horizons was my introduction to Animal Crossing so I never saw any of the earlier ones. I love that you left your island for your wife.
With ACNH being my first game in the series, and with Mallary being one of my favourite neighbours (who greets me with "well met, darling") and especially in light of how much I thought I wasn't gonna like her, it's so weird seeing her be this unpleasant.
Your Definitely Underrated! You deserve more Viewers for this good content 😤
Theres a lucrative way of making bells if you have a gameboy and an adaptor. If you plug it into the gamecube you can go to a island and drop fruit on the island. Then if you leave and play on the gameboy when you head back to town the islander can eat fruit and if they like it if they eat enough they drop bells.
I was always mad that I didn't have a Gameboy advanced as a kid. I always wanted to take advantage of that feature on Animal Crossing but was never able to.
It's so nostalgic seeing og animal crossing game play
I still occasionally play animal crossing on my gamecube. I wish they incorporated some of those things into the newer games as well.
Loved the video. Your grind to becoming a bellionaire was quite the journey. So much fun seeing the little nuances of the original title. Writing letters and taking them to the post office had so much charm to it.
A little off topic, but Quetzal and his design is so cool! I wish he returns to recent games.
I found a hamster in my recycling bin on acnh. These villagers are sick 😤
The villagers are actually so mean on the GameCube, one time I went to talk to my favorite villager and she said I was fat
You may or may not know this, but in animal crossing for GameCube, Redd doesn't sell fake art.
I love how this game was real with it almost a bit like in life. As in not everyone is instantly nice to you.
I actually got the gold statue on my GameCube game. Slowly paying off my other 3 loans on the other games I have 😅
18:15 Ive never seen anything even remotely close to that price. I would have also hated myself. Then again, you don't really expect it to spike that high that fast, I'm used to the prices in New Leaf so I think the highest ive seen was a bit over 300.
40:06 That's just even more insane, first time ive seen turnip prices go over 999 Bells.
Some villagers being mean in older animal crossing is great, because it means that you're only friends with some villagers, and those relationships feel stronger.
Every time he called it an island a notch of my spine got atomized…
Thank goodness it wasn't just me 💀 it bothered me so much. Its a dumb thing to be bothered by but NH is the only game where the town is properly an island :/