Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I checked my mail today, and I found a goodbye letter from a former villager: Sprocket the robotic ostrich has bolted out of town.

Nookington’s was getting into the Christmas spirit with two festive trees on sale. I bought the large one for my house.

Over by Static’s house, I found a new frog villager. Static didn’t seem very excited to meet him, not even a tad.

I went in his house to check out Tad’s pad, and he has three farting froggy chairs inside. But the best part is that he has two elephant slides that empty into a pool! This dude has water slides in his house! How cool is that?

I had a chat with Baabara over by the river, and she told me that she went fishing with her boyfriend today. Villagers sure don’t mention having boyfriends or girlfriends in the newer Animal Crossing games. But she said he caught a pale chub that made him happy.

When I met up with Genji, he told me he painted my roof!

When I responded by saying “Lame!” he got angry and said he should have painted it puke color! Wow, how rude!

I continued my walk around town; I had a lot of weeds to pull. I also dug up a bunch of fossils and gyroids. But when I made my way back home, I finally saw the extent of what Genji did: He painted my roof pink!

I’ll need to buy some paint to fix that. See you all next time!

It was raining in Forest today. When I checked my mail, I found a goodbye letter from Bill the duck. So long, quacker.

I also met my newest neighbor Sprocket, a robotic ostrich. Oh, is there such a thing?

When I chatted with Belle, she wanted me to help her with a maze from her Nintendo Power magazine. I’m glad these ridiculous mazes never made it into later Animal Crossing games.

Baabara was upset that she hadn’t seen me for five weeks. But there’s no need for name-calling!

Kody was telling me how hungry he is. Apparently, he’s ready for the harvest festival already. It’s still seven weeks away though, dude.

Over by the wishing well, Sydney wanted to play a game with me to determine if I have psychic powers. My actual psychic powers warned me that she was going to rip me off if I agreed, so I declined the offer.

I pulled lots of weeds around town, until the wishing well said my town was perfect once again. See you all next time!

Sadly, Lily the frog has moved out of town. I got her goodbye letter in the mail today. For such a cute frog though, she sure uses ugly stationery.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, washed up after one of his crazy adventures. Once I woke him up, he gave me a plate armor once he was done rambling.

Baabara told me she wanted to see the world, or at least a nicer part of it. (How rude). She told me to tell her if I find a nice town, so she can move away. Gladly!

She said she can now move away without hesitation. Of course, there’s no truth to this. Unlike similar conversations in later Animal Crossing games, on GameCube they don’t actually result in the animal leaving. I wouldn’t mind if Baabara proved me wrong, though! I wooldn’t miss her a bit.

I met up with my newest neighbor, Sandy the ostrich. She seems really nice. Welcome to Forest!

Over by the wishing well, Bill asked for a new catchphrase to replace “quacko.” I told him to say quackpot instead.

Hank was also near the wishing well, and he told me how much he was looking forward to Halloween. However, Static did not share that enthusiasm.

After finishing my walk around town, I decided to drop everything and go fishing.

Early September is the best time of year to earn a lot of bells if you go ocean fishing. Because there are no sea bass or jellyfish right now, every ocean fish you catch will earn you at least 3,000 bells. For more details, check out my September Fishing Guide.

With my pockets empty and only a fishing rod in my hands, I decided to fish until I filled my inventory with 15 fish. That took me just six minutes, as I caught 11 red snappers and 4 barred knifejaws.

I went up to Nookington’s to sell my catches, and I earned a nice 53,000 bells. Not bad for six minutes of fishing!