Revisting Animal Crossing

Via Evil Avatar- an excellent retrospective on what is possibly the best kids video game ever made or that ever will be made. It was a life skills class dressed up as a video game -teaching work ethics, sustainable farming, economics, letter writing, empathy towards others ect ect.

All of this weird connectivity reminds me how lucky we were that Animal Crossing didn't actually run on the internet. If it had been born in the current climate, it would have to be some horrible kind of service, a mess of micro-transactions and Facebook spam about super pumpkins.
Instead, marching to the ticking of the GameCube's internal clock, which remembered when to start the snow falling, when to send the yearly Groundhog Day letter from mum, and when to tootle Tortimer off on his holidays so that one of us got to actually go inside the lighthouse for him, Animal Crossing became a universe in a bottle