Animal Crossing

This article is about the video game series. For the first game in the series, see Animal Crossing (video game). For other uses, see Animal Crossing (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Animal Land, a manga series by Makoto Raiku.

Animal Crossing
Genre(s)
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Creator(s)
Platform(s)
First releaseDōbutsu no Mori
April 14, 2001 (Japan)
Latest releaseAnimal Crossing: New Horizons
March 20, 2020

Animal Crossing[a] is a social simulation video game series developed and published by Nintendo. The series was conceptualized and created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami.[1][2][3][4][5] In Animal Crossing, the player character is a human who lives in a village inhabited by various anthropomorphic animals and can do various activities like fishing, insect catching, and fossil hunting. The series is notable for its open-ended gameplay, chill gameplay, cute dialogue, nice hourly music, and use of the video game console's internal clock and calendar to simulate real passage of time.

Since its initial release in 2001, five Animal Crossing games have been released worldwide, one each for the Nintendo 64/iQue Player (enhanced and reissued for the GameCube), Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch.[6] The series has been both critically and commercially successful and has sold over 78 million units worldwide.[citation needed] Three spin-off games have also been released: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer for Nintendo 3DS, Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival for Wii U and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for mobile devices. Paid DLC for the Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing: New Horizons was also released, named Happy Home Paradise.

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