{"id":92022,"date":"2019-04-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/animal_crossing_is_now_18_years_old"},"modified":"2019-04-15T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:30:00","slug":"animal-crossing-is-now-18-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/15\/animal-crossing-is-now-18-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing Is Now 18 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/49b241b1a60a8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/49b241b1a60a8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Animal Crossing IMG1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/49b241b1a60a8\/animal-crossing-img1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/49b241b1a60a8\/animal-crossing-img1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Animal Crossing IMG1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>As the Game Boy prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary, Nintendo\u2019s beloved <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing\">Animal Crossing<\/a><\/strong> series has just reached the 18-year mark of its existence (well, yesterday it did \u2013 we&#8217;re 24 hours late). Sure, it might not be quite as significant, but it&#8217;s still worth reminding everyone just how much it has grown over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The series first started out in Japan with the 2001 Nintendo 64 title <strong>D\u014dbutsu no Mori<\/strong> (also known as <strong>Animal Forest<\/strong>). In the same year, the original game was brought across to the GameCube and then localised for North America as Animal Crossing in 2002 and later on in Europe in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the obscure lifestyle simulator has gone on to become one of Nintendo\u2019s best-selling IP. The handheld entries <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/animal_crossing_wild_world\">Animal Crossing: Wild World<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/animal_crossing_new_leaf\">Animal Crossing: New Leaf<\/a><\/strong> have performed particularly well in terms of sales, selling more than 10 and 12 million units respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The series has become so popular, there have even been a number of spin-offs over the years. These include the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/animal_crossing_happy_home_designer\"><strong>Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer<\/strong><\/a> on the 3DS and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/animal_crossing_pocket_camp\">Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp<\/a><\/strong> on mobile. We\u2019re now waiting for the next big entry in the series to be revealed at this year&#8217;s E3.<\/p>\n<p>So until then, why not celebrate Animal Crossing\u2019s 18th year anniversary by sharing your own memories of the series in the comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Game Boy prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary, Nintendo\u2019s beloved Animal Crossing series has just reached the 18-year mark of its existence (well, yesterday it did \u2013 we&#8217;re 24 hours late). Sure, it might not be quite as significant, but it&#8217;s still worth reminding everyone just how much it has grown over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}