Interact with a virtual village of animals who are doing something different every minute of every day.

Step into the world of Animal Crossing, where villagers are living everyday lives in time with an actual 24-hour clock. To become part of the thriving village, you'll get a job, buy a house and interact with computer-controlled characters as well as others controlled by friends and family.

• Collect furnishings for your house and check out what other villagers have collected for their own houses
• Talk to other villagers, help them with tasks, write letters back and forth and build relationships
• Collect an assortment of items and artifacts and different plants, fish and insects
• Help keep your village looking good so that it will be a desirable place for people to live
• Visit the village often throughout the day, because different activities happen at different times; plus, special things sometimes happen on holidays
• Pay off your debts and improve your house by returning daily, adding floors and new furnishings; watch how other characters improve their houses, which adds a competitive element
• Up to 4 other players can move into the village and take turns playing in a shared village, cooperating and competing
• Swap memory cards with friends who have the game, and travel to their villages to interact with different characters there
• Connect to a Game Boy Advance using a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance cable, and then players can travel from the village to a remote island and find exotic items
• Hook up the new e-Reader through the Game Boy Advance and swipe Animal Crossing e-Reader cards to get special or rare items or even special messages from the characters living at Animal Crossing