- A N I M A L _ C R O S S I N G -

Welcome to a world where your decisions are your own... from what to wear to each day, where to place items in your town, whether to add a second story or a basement to your home, which items to collect, what to donate to a museum, and which trees to plant in which locations. And it doesn't end there. Heck, that doesn't even begin to describe this game.
You begin as a traveler looking for a new place to live, with nothing but a mere 1,000 bells in your pocket. Luckily for you, an animal you meet on the train knows a guy in the town you're heading to. He can even give you a place to stay! But not without a price, of course. This is the point where your "adventure" in your new town begins.
Features:
- Start a new life
- Fish
- Catch Bugs
- Donate Fossils
- Buy furniture
- Collect Sound tracks for your stereo
- Earn Money for various things
- Send letters to neighbors - and you might get a reply!
- Celebrate real holidays
- Discover secrets
- Find actual NES games - and play them!
- Meet new people (err... animals)
- Invite other family members into your town
Tips and Tricks for Bells, NES games, and Holidays
(warning - spoilers!)
There are a couple of tricks to earning lots of bells. One of them is quite simple. When you're bored, go talk to animals and run errands for them. You can sell the items they give you for bells if you're already the owner of a certain object. Or you could try this: Highlight the second option each animal gives you that may state something such as, "Entertain me!" or "Let's chat". Your buddy will start talking to you. Occasionally they may ask you questions that you can answer for an item or try to sell you something. Some animals may even give you fruit not native to your town. In this case you can go and find a nice planting spot in an open area. Dig an hole and plant the fruit (no need to worry about picking the seeds out of them). Check back the next day to see if your sapling died or grew bigger. You'll be in luck if it grew; that means you can sell the new fruit for 500 bells, 400 more than you would a native fruit! Then again, you could always plant those fruits and grow more:)

A cool feature of the game is its ability to let you play a number of NES games. How can you obtain them, though? Some are earned from the monthly raffle, others will be given to you as gifts for Christmas or you birthday. Check your mail on Christmas Eve to find a letter containing a NES game in it. Another way to get a NES game is on your birthday. Talk to animals by highlighting the second option from their menu (not "Give me something to do" or "need anything?"). One of them will eventually ask when your birthday is. Give your birth date and play Animal Crossing the day of your birthday. Talk to the animal that's walking around the area in front of your house. He/she should mention the fact that it's your birthday and give you a NES game.
Yet another of the too-many-to-count features found in Animal Crossing are the Holidays. So far I've only been able to see the Sports Fair, Harvest Moon, and a few others, but I received something from the Mayor each time. Visit him on the Harvest Moon day and he'll give you... a moon! It's awkwardly big, and I'd only advise you to put it in your house if you've got the room. I buried it one night and accidentally forgot about it, but found the buried spot the next day. It's funny when you unearth it; the text message states "Check it out! I dug up the moon!". Again, I dropped the moon off in my neighbors yard and picked it back up in the lost and found the next day. Now I feel kinda dumb. Who loses the moon, anyway? I'd have to be sorted into the same class as the animal that accidentally lost his soda machine.