Jeff's ACCF Blog

Maple was sick with a cold on Sunday, so I gave her some medicine. I repeated the process throughout the week, since I played several days this week.

Static had asked me for some new clothes…a specific shirt, although I don’t remember which shirt it was. But by Monday, he had given up on it (as well he should). The odds of finding a specific shirt in Able Sisters on any given day are very small. And the odds of me not being too lazy to actually order it? Even smaller. So he said he’ll just wear a fig leaf! 😮

Opal was telling me about how flowers will wither if I don’t keep watering them. Oddly enough, she was standing near gold roses as she said it…and gold roses don’t wilt. But then she said I should make sure she doesn’t wither either!

Today (November 16th) is the 10-year anniversary of Animal Crossing: City Folk’s release! Unlike most Animal Crossing games (and Nintendo games in general), it was actually released in America first. Only by a few days, but still, it’s a big difference from what happened with New Leaf. Japan got New Leaf seven months before the rest of the world.

I made a special video for the anniversary, and here it is. It’s a new town tour, where I stop at various spots around town to remember events that happened at each spot years ago, during online play. Wi-Fi Moments clips are overlaid onto the screen, so you can see how the area looked then and now. I hope you enjoy the video!

I got a letter from “Mom” today, and it’s about “Dad” learning to play the accordion? Hmm, I don’t think I remember seeing this letter before.

There’s a small detail that I originally intended to be in my 10th anniversary video. But it didn’t work out, because of the bell limit. If you’re holding more than 99,999 bells, 99k will be placed into a bag and your total bells won’t be displayed on the item screen. It only includes the money bags if you go inside a shop or something, and my tour only focused on the outdoor parts of town. But if you look at my bell total from inside town hall, you can probably see what I was going for.

Maple was over her cold today, and she rewarded me by giving me a clackercart.

With today being a day of looking back at ACCF, it may be a good time to revisit my list of 11 things that you can do in City Folk, but not in New Leaf. Hopefully some of these will return in Animal Crossing Switch next year!

Did any of you do anything special for the anniversary (like checking in on your old town)? Feel free to share your memories in the comments, and have a great weekend!

On Wednesday, I was happy to see Tabby. Wait, let me finish. 😛 I was happy to see Tabby all packed up and ready to move out of town! Yay!

And then yesterday, she was officially gone. I got her goodbye letter in the mail.

Drift asked me for a new greeting, and of course, I had the 10th anniversary on my mind. So I told him to say “10 years of ACCF.”

Today, I already found a new house in town! Dizzy the elephant was inside. He moved in so fast that it made my head spin. 😛 I like Dizzy though, so it’s good to have him here.

At Nook ‘n’ Go, I ordered the one-way tee and cavalier hat. I’ve decided this will be the outfit I wear for my 10th anniversary video.

I wanted to wear something that was a throwback to the early days of ACCF, and that outfit was something I wore a lot in early 2009. In fact, I was wearing it in the 9th picture I ever took in the game! This is from January 1st, 2009, just 15 minutes after midnight. That’s Ness (aka Bushido) dressed as the baby new year.

I’ve made good progress on the video, even though I haven’t technically recorded it yet. 😛 I’m glad that Tabby won’t be in it, and now with Dizzy moved in, I don’t have to worry about any unexpected move-ins either. I am a bit sad that I have some minor grass wear around town that I won’t have time to heal, but that’s alright. I think it’s going to be a good video. 🙂 Look for it on Friday, November 16th.

Halloween is over, and the evil is subsiding. One of my Tabbys, the one in Forest, has decided to move away! Hurray! She got mad that I told her to go ahead and move; she expected me to beg her to stay! Ha!

Midge told me she wished that she could identify fossils herself, but Blathers refused to help her out because it’s an industry secret. This is actually something I’ve been saying I’d like to see in a future Animal Crossing game. Our players should be able to automatically distinguish a dinosaur egg from a T-rex skull, for example. 😛

Now that November is here, that means it’s mushroom season. You can find various mushrooms near trees around town.

And of course, one of them each day will be mush furniture in disguise.

Speaking of mushrooms, here is the latest video from my 2nd town of Mushroom. It’s Mario Plays ACCF #11. This time, Mario participates in the Halloween festivities.

Even though I’ve been posting a new Mario Plays ACCF video every Friday for the past 11 weeks, I’m going to be taking a short break now. That’s mainly because I need to complete my 10th anniversary ACCF video; the anniversary is only two weeks away!

This also means that I’ll be playing more often in Forest the next couple weeks, but I’m not sure if there will be bonus blog entries or not. But I am glad that Tabby won’t have to be part of my anniversary video. See you next week!