Q 01/05

What does Dōbutsu no Mori, the original Japanese title of Animal Crossing, literally mean?

A) Animal Village

B) Animal Forest

C) Animal Town

D) Animal Island

Answer · why

B) Animal Forest

Animal Forest is the literal meaning. Nintendo of America renamed the game for the West, and Nintendo of Japan was so impressed with that version that...

Q 02/05

The first Animal Crossing reached the West on GameCube, but on which system did it debut in Japan in 2001?

A) Game Boy Advance

B) Super Famicom

C) Nintendo 64

D) Game Boy Color

Answer · why

C) Nintendo 64

Nintendo 64 was its first home: the Japan-only cartridge had a clock built in, the only one on the system, so village life could follow real time. The...

Q 03/05

Animal Crossing was originally conceived as a dungeon-crawling RPG for which ill-fated Nintendo peripheral?

A) Virtual Boy

B) 64DD

C) Satellaview

D) Super Game Boy

Answer · why

B) 64DD

Repeated delays to the disk-drive add-on stalled development, and the move to a cartridge prompted the pivot to a life simulator.

Q 04/05

In the GameCube Animal Crossing, the player's looks depend on answers to which cat met on the train?

A) Punchy

B) Kabuki

C) Blanca

D) Rover

Answer · why

D) Rover

Rover's small talk has consequences: the face his questions produce can never be changed, so a player who answers with random nonsense is stuck with t...

Q 05/05

In the first Animal Crossing, how does the player start paying off their house debt?

A) A paper round

B) A shop job

C) A fishing contest

D) Taking a lodger

Answer · why

B) A shop job

A shop job is how Tom Nook has newcomers start repaying him: chores like planting flowers, writing letters and meeting the neighbours double as a tuto...