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The Baa-ad Neighbours of Animal Crossing

Posted by Nadia Oxford

Game Boy Advance aside, Nintendo was irrelevant in last generation's console race. Now that they've discovered the secret of turning wary parents into gamers, it's necessary to hate their success.

If you can't bring yourself to do that much, make sure to at least get a good laugh at Nintendo's expense once in a while. An incident involving Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: Wild World is a good place to unload a chuckle if you haven't had one in a while.

Nintendo's oversight is funny for more than one reason. The incident affirms humanity's tendency to fall towards dickery if the consequences are low. We well know that the sunny and unassuming town of Animal Crossing is ripe for teenage jackasses with the digital equivalent of spraypaint. Its tamed inhabitants live a zoo-like life, oblivious about the hard falls life offers to their cousins in the frozen arctic, the teeming jungle or even the urine-sprayed back alleys of the inner city. You can teach the good creatures of Animal Crossing bad words, which they will eagerly use to salute you, themselves and each other.

Even the money-loving Tom Nook is very innocent. Upon hiring you for odd jobs when you first arrive in town, he allows you to write an ad for his store. Playing with marquees is generally a job left to trusted higher-ups since the working world is full of people who just can't help shouting that the store is hosting a "SPECIAL" wherein "TOM NOOK JERKS OFF ANYONE FOR TEN BELLS." I imagine employers might even exercise further caution if their signs and ads were capable of automatically traveling virally through Internet connections. Heck, Old Man Nook doesn't even check your work. He trusts you and he knows a hard-working (wo)man you would never steer him wrong.

I imagine Nintendo's thought process was somewhere on the same line: Why double-check our press copies of Wild World for possible invasions of profanity? Surely anyone who plays Animal Crossing has a pure heart and rolls hoops and drinks lemonade, right?

Right?

Related Links:

Animal Crossing City Folk: Nintendo At Their Worst
Miyamoto Is Concerned About Excessive Violence in Games
Many Colors in the Hardcore Rainbow


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Roto13 said:

Where did that save file even come from, anyway? Did they just buy a random used Animal Crossing game from GameStop and copy the save file to send out to people? :P

December 4, 2008 6:06 PM

LBD "Nytetrayn" said:

I don't believe it was random; my understanding is that it was a completed game they had sent out.

December 5, 2008 1:37 AM

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