The Strange and Forgotten Events of Animal Crossing

[@steelplasma256]

For those unaware a Starting Pistol is used to start a Race by making a big sound. The pistol can only fires Blanks and requires heavy modifications to fire real ammunition. But that's not as funny as a GUN in Animal Crossing.

[@nordinreecendo512]

I see I'm not the only one who went and checked the Wiki page for starting pistols.

[@popstarzombie]

Fr. I remember seeing them cartoons and stuff all the time. Not that weird.

[@joharakiri]

The gun fucking sent me 😂I've seen starting pistols at races before but they never looked like real pistols. I realise they exist but nevertheless the model existing in this game is hilarious. Bit sad actually that noone has released a rom hack to make it available to the player...

[@ida6950]

I thought everyone knew about those. I used to do athletics in my childhood so starting pistols were a very normal thing to me.

[@0DanteMayCry0]

@miles animates and records It's fucking sports gun. I understand a lot of kids nowadays never do any sports.

[@annajohnson5779]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention how in New Leaf for Halloween you could get hints from villagers about what villagers were specifically scared of and if you dressed in that particular costume that they were scared of, that villager would then automatically give you candy when you visited their house.

[@kittygirlrachel]

they wouldn't just give you any candy though. They'd give you the lollipop, which you could give to Jack in exchange for a piece of the Creepy set.

[@cownose8949]

Oh yeah, I had Rasher on my island and he was scared of gas masks, but it never clicked that I could exploit him for candy on Halloween.

[@owlyyn]

Wild World was missing all of the normal holidays because Nintendo did a global release and wanted as little as possible to 'translate' into regional locations. So they did these repeating events all year, like La Li Day or Flower Festival. I think its a fun side track and makes Wild World unique. BUT I def missed the holidays, like Toy Day and Halloween and am glad it came back into the game after Wild World.

[@EgoRaptorLP]

Flower Festival is one of the events I miss the most.

[@WahooYahoo]

I have a Halloween Birthday and you could not imagine my disappointment when I found out Halloween didn’t exist in Wild World

[@owlyyn]

@@WahooYahoo alright, there were crimes committed to you when wild world came out. My condolences.

[@mikeyhamato2012]

I do not have Wild World, but to be honest, I would enjoy that in New Horizons. Holidays just are not appealing to me. I wish there was a way to turn them off or have some kind of mode where you can either choose between real or fake holidays. I always skip them on New Horizons anyways and if I accidentally end up in one (because I never know the dates), I just quit the game and play it a week later. I just do not relate to any of them, which is why I do not bother to learn about or celebrate them. It actually makes me a little uncomfortable. This is definitely an unpopular opinion haha But unpopular does not equal bad, everyone is different. Now I wish I had Wild World back then, because I did have a DSi. I still have it, it just no longer works. :(

[@Kitsuku]

In wild world the one chill thing was your neighbors houses would get lights on the roof trim for the holidays. I wish they would bring that back

[@WillowRubyFlower]

How have I not heard that there is a GUN IN ANIMAL CROSSING!!?? I've watched countless animal crossing videos that go into extreme detail about everything, and none of them knew or bothered to mention this!?

[@TheLastArbiter]

Yeah how have I not heard about this?!! I never encountered that or heard anyone mention it ever

[@lavendereyes1533]

Have you never seen old races that start with firing a gun??? It’s called a starting pistol it isn’t a real gun they just make a loud noise

[@WillowRubyFlower]

@@lavendereyes1533 Ohhh, I didn't know that was thing! That makes it less surprising, though it still feels a little out of place.

[@TheLastArbiter]

@@lavendereyes1533 I am very well aware of that, but I would have figured they would have made it very cartoony or use a firework popper or a whistle, not model a realistic pistol lol

[@lavendereyes1533]

@@TheLastArbiter why? It’s not a gun. Also this game came out 20 years ago and it was made in a country with very strict gun laws.

[@discussingwhattodo5381]

You forgot the April fools event in new leaf, where the facless cat Bianca would impersonate your villagers and you would have to guess the real one

[@Chubby_Bub]

Surprised you left out the fact that in the GameCube version and City Folk, the point of the Thanksgiving event was that the villagers invited Franklin to the town in order to eat him for dinner, and you help him hide from them. Also, the reason for a lot of bizarre holidays in the GameCube version is that the Japanese version had a lot of holidays based on real Japanese ones that wouldn’t make sense in America. Graduation Day replaced "Adulthood Day" which is based on the real life Coming of Age Day. So in CF and NL they made it so the holidays celebrated in your own town depend on your console's region and/or language, but you can still celebrate them by visiting someone else's town from that region. That’s why there are English translations for events and items from foreign towns. I think Korea in NL had the most unique events.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

This is all fairly common knowledge which is why he probably didn't include it. These points are mentioned in basically every "facts you didn't know" video lol

[@PhirePhlame]

So I've heard, the reason behind Wild World's holiday situation was as a quick-and-dirty solution to the "how do we add global online play to a game series that incorporates region-specific holidays" problem. I guess there was a lack of cartridge space and/or development time to make sure all regional holidays would work on all versions of the game like they'd later do successfully as of City Folk.

[@PhriekshoTV]

Old Animal Crossing is just so much more interesting than modern AC. I miss all the ACTUALLY varied personalities. Though I do appreciate some of the newer characters like Diana and Audie.

[@terrapinpiper]

i miss new leaf so much 😔 easily my favourite in the series. it had perfect balance, and i miss the huge nook shop. new horizons is great but theres so much to do and terraforming etc takes so long that its completely overwhelming. this video made me super nostalgic for no reason 😂

[@strangastrigo]

I never gave the starting gun a second thought but it was barely phased out of actual use in my area. It was standard for starting races in cartoons so it didn't seem weird. They don't fire real bullets so nothing to worry about.

[@soupoup]

Yeah. But its still funny with no context.

[@shrympcryptid]

I used to play City Folk a Ton when I was younger, like, all day every day, it was my first animal crossing game ever, and whenever the flea market was announced on the board I was so excited, I think I might've found those days super fun because there was a chance I could buy some cool furniture from villagers or they'd be able to give me some bells

[@medusathedecepticon]

I remember Weeding Day it was actually kind of fun. Also I think I'm one of the few that enjoyed Bunny Day in Animal Crossing New Horizons when the game started. Also does anyone remember Flower Day or whatever it was called from Wild World where you tried to have the nicest yard and decorate it with flowers or something?

[@GreyFireClover]

I do remember that. And that you absolutely could steal flowers from other villager's yards and put them in yours

[@NecromancyForKids]

Bunny Day was kinda tedious but fine. I think the biggest thing was people thought that Rabbit was ugly. And in the animal crossing community, being ugly is apparently a sin.

[@kinasakuraba]

Ugh, I hated weeding day because I always have the Keep the Town Beautiful ordinance and couldn't get any weeds to give Leaf for the furniture. My town is actually overrun with flowers... There's literally no room for weeds... Or anything else... 😞

[@nightzzmixx]

Having grown up with Animal Crossing, I was always overwhelmed with how much content they packed into the games, even though a lot of it really wasn’t necessary, but the fact that it’s all there is incredibly endearing. I wish the same could be said for New Horizons.

[@beardalaxy]

It's not a holiday, but I really liked how you could get statues of yourself in your town for paying off your entire debt and completing the museum in the GameCube game.

[@shyshy1894]

Yes! Flee Market Day was my favorite! I wish they brought it back in NH :(

[@parrotperson]

I was super disappointed when April 1st rolled around in New Horizons and Blanca never showed up.

[@hiltaro12]

I just had a total Mandela effect watching the foot race. I could have sworn that in the English version when they shot the gun it was actually a gage gun, and a little flag would pop out with GO! on it. I also remember distinctly Bob having a grumpy villager voice several of my friends in the past have agreed that they had remembered that aswell, however Bob has never had a grumpy voice.

[@Clouditivity]

I do remember the flag that said go, too

[@avalonlove8114]

I thought bob used to be a cranky villager too

[@Shosholegbt]

Every copy of animal crossing is personalized

[@SoratheWonderful]

7:58 this has technically returned as in new horizons Villager do sell you some of their furniture (long as it’s not a custom design house) the flea market was in city folk too lol. also in Wild world there was the Light decoration holiday where you judged villagers for their Christmas lights. Along with the Flower tournament where the most flowers around your house wins and villagers competed against you……but you could steal their flowers for yourself lol. The GameCube had the Autumn moon festival where the reflection of the moon appeared in the lake. There was April fools day for city folk and new leaf. Acorn day, was also a holiday (wild world) and Summer solstice (new leaf)

[@samiloulalee]

Oh! One holiday that wasn't included here is April Fools Day! The earliest game I've ever played in the series is New Leaf so that's the only version of April Fool's Day I really even know about. In New Leaf, Blanca would go into the different villager's houses and copy their appearance. You'd then have to figure out who was the real villager and who was Blanca in disguise! The reward for guessing correctly was Blanca's pic!

[@MunchyMakesStuff]

as someone who has only played wild world, new horizons, and pocket camp....I really weirdly miss the acorn festival...

[@gertywhatagash_]

It's sad because most people jumped on board for New Horizons. And because of that the things that really suck (i.e the constant crafting of tools, the easier to catch buhs/fish, and the dumbed down and lacking events) will be mainstays. There are just a handful of great things and tons of odd ones in the new title. For veterans it sucks.

[@Ninten110dogs]

Agreed. It's weird to see Animal Crossing "extremely mainstream" now since it definitely wasn't when I started playing the earlier games.

[@monospaperbag]

fr

[@Ariioch]

It was supposed to be a comfort game not a real life simulator 😪😩

[@theonlybilge]

Remember: gatekeep your hobbies

[@shyguy85]

​@@theonlybilgeI agree

[@Yzzami]

Having like 14 villagers if you really like the design of a lot of villagers. Having previous villagers visit and recognize you instead of resetting completely

[@raffaelm6558]

Weeding Day was such an amazing thing unless you were like me and obsessed with keeping your town clean and then Leif would "just" unlock town decoration projects (which were partly brought back as regular items in NH, like the Round Topiary)... and I shouldn't comment before you're done bc you mention that, too.😂 But the Weeding Day items were incredibly beautiful. Some of the best reward items in the entire game alongside those for the Bug Off and the Fishing Tourney. (I want my snail clock back...)

[@TheLastArbiter]

Bro I expected that thumbnail was a joke but holy crap it was 100% legit! How have I never seen this gun before?!! I almost want to plug in my GameCube just to see for myself…

[@heartthepuppetqueen3027]

I did the light house event for a week and i think my brother got the mini light house and I got chocolates. Tortimer knows I'm a chocolate gal so I just displayed it in my house.

[@Nightstormshadow1]

I miss some of the wild world events. Like one of my favorites washed flower contest where I would steal everyone's flowers and put it around my home and so I'd be the only one who COULD win cuz I stole every flower. Flea markets were so great too!!

[@ceomg]

I’m honored to be in your video! ❄️

[@RocketElijah]

thanks for always making good content :)

[@Ant0nKnee]

Chow is holding a Starting Pistol which is used to initiate races. They shoot blanks and are incapable of firing actual ammunition unless excessively modified.

[@TheOtakuArtist]

Wow, this video was actually SUPER informative! :0 Normally when watching your videos none of the info is that new to me since I'm a big Animal Crossing fan, but I didn't know about most of this stuff!! :0 Great video Elijah!!!

[@fabicool]

Its so sad, that new horizons only has a few of the biggest events, like Halloween or Christmas. And we won’t get any new updates 😭

[@timmyb.3426]

I think there actually is an event from New Horizons that can't be played anymore today. It is the Earth Day event. In 2020, the Earth Day event was pretty much a line of exclusive Nook Miles+ tasks that could only be given to the player during the event. It wasn't anything that big, but it was still an event that was a part of New Horizons' history that cannot really be done now. The event didn't return in 2021 or later, it was exclusively used only for 2020.

[@soupoup]

I totally forgot abt that I also never got to play it bc i didnt get a switch until 2021 oof

[@stardream7384]

I mean I remember all of these ahah. Ive been a hard core fan for years. Esp new leaf stuff! It's just silly to see people who have just played new lead look back at it and treat it like its "soooooooo weird." lol ok?

[@majesticderp]

Holy crap, I forgot all about the gun for the foot race on GCN 😂

[@XxKrystalxparisxX]

The fact the first animal crossing game I played was animal crossing new hurizzons and I didn’t know there was guns in animal cruiseing-

[@felledoesYTiguess]

I get why Resetti isn't really featured in ACNH, but it's sad that you don't see him anymore unless you invite him to the Roost.

[@Seven-vu3md]

You missed two of one of the coolest events (they're at least in the european version): -Autumm festival There you have to search for a turkey that hides in your town and whenever you find him you'll get special furniture -Karneval A peacock comes to the city (In new leaf and city folk) and you have to find feathers or candy (don't remember which one applied to which game) and in exchange you get special Karneval items. I always sold those furniture cuz they made a lot of money

[@thealmightycrisprat]

candy was for city folk

[@xKassieFizzyx]

Dude, you totally forgot about the Acorn Festival in WW! It brought about Cornimer, which is a creepy acorn themed version of Tortimer. I think you got mush themed furniture when you collected certain amounts of acorns.

[@fine1387]

Fun fact abt 08:40 : the “naughty or nice day” is an actual holiday in Germany. It’s called “ Nikolaus”-day and it’s celebrated on the 6th of December. Children are supposed too clean their shoes on the 5th of December and line them up neatly in front of their door. Over night the so called Nikolaus will come and put sweets and tangerines into the shoes of all nice children, while naughty children get coals. I’m not sure if it’s also celebrated elsewhere in the world…. But I hope it was fun learning about Nikolaus-day! ☺️🎅🏻🍊🍫

[@elizabethbentley2582]

crazy thing about turkey day in new horizons was it was soo INVOLVED it was a real challenge and it was fun all for a holiday only celebrated in 2 countries lol i assumed it would unlock the ability to cook on the kitchen furnture but it didnt??? did i mess up. however toy day in NH was so.. easy it was like here ya go ok bye happy crimbus

[@Leshyxingyt]

I love how you added ceomg's footage for acnh jingle

[@PRT95]

"8 days" it was TWELVE days long in 2020 (1st-12th April). Thank heavens it's from the Sunday before (aka Palm Sunday) to Easter day itself, from 2021.

[@Biscuit_gamer34]

7:51 They did added it back to the new update, when your villager invites you to their house you can ask if you can buy their stuff

[@andreworders7305]

15:01 what happens to the item they steal?

[@fishbxne]

They still have the ‘flea’ market mechanic in New Horizons. I remember Beau inviting me to his place and said he’d sell a furniture item of my choosing, unless he liked it. I think I vaguely remember someone coming to my house and asked to buy my froggy chair but take that as a maybe since the memory’s foggy

[@TofuPurinCh]

The Events You Could Do In Animal Crossing on The Gamecube, i always pretended i was a part of the events, like tug of war and the race, even though the game could not let you, do the events back then, i always pretended i was the winner all the time.

[@chompythebeast]

*3:07* Comrade was just full of the revolutionary spirit!

[@kathryngal3]

Camping Season!!! Enough with the repeated Reese and Cyrus anniversary shoot, let’s do more camping with more camping items!

[@KaiKai2thousand]

“Chow just straight up pulled a Glock out” 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@scarmalone]

The glock had me rolling. Just amazing. Hadn’t seen it before 😂😂😂😂

[@PoppyFlower821]

You can get the beans and masks to wear for bean day in New Horizons as well

[@uwuiosIII]

love the content, man!! keep it up!!

[@wonderlandzer0]

I knew about the gun in ac gamecube but OMG THAT THUMBNAIL IS HILARIOUS

[@coyoteartist]

I thought the game's version of Easter was called Egg Day. I seem to recall Ellen of Outside Xtra creating quite the interesting Egg Day room in New Horizens

[@ginascruggs5168]

9:00 snoop Dogg would love this holiday

[@lucymorrison]

Man I miss playing Wild World and Let’s Go To The City as a kid, good times

[@SakuraKotoni]

"the Let's Go To The City version got some events that the west didn't get" And less than a sentence later you acknowledge that it's the European version. So I guess being European is not considered being in the west now. News to me, as someone who is in Europe.

[@LegolazDragonzzz]

¨weeding day¨ Gandalf: AHEHEAHAHE🚬🚬

[@UltraHylia]

I thought the thumbnail was gonna be clickbait but here we are haha I remember really liking the flea market as a kid, it was in both Wild World and City Folk iirc

[@mmb-ig7iq]

I really wish people stopped equating a starting pistol to a gun. It can't fire any kind of ammunition unless illegally modified. It's not "omg Animal Crossing had a GUN in it" it's Animal Crossing used a traditional starter pistol which makes sense considering that the game came out in 2001, when these were still used a lot in Japanese schools.

[@soundonly7155]

I THOUGHT THE GUN WOULD BE CLICKBAIT

[@justinbarton8808]

The flee market day itself is not in new horizons but if you have so many friend points with a villager, when you go to their house they will sometimes ask you if you want to buy anything from their house. And I think it works the same if a villager comes over to your house.

[@justinbarton8808]

They also messed up by getting rid of iconic holiday furniture sets like jingle, Halloween, snowman. I liked the jingle set.

[@reynardfox6135]

I remember yay day from ww. I once told a villager ‘I like tomatoes’ and they were very thankful for the compliment

[@itzsharon3570]

You can buy stuff from you’re villagers house in NH, but only when they invite you to hang out at their house

[@Babiemelo]

Do you get permission from these channels to repost their videos or are you just stealing them? Also it’s so stupid that there’s no Canadian holidays but American gets some 😒

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

I didn’t realise Canada had that many different holidays than America?

[@Babiemelo]

@@ShintogaDeathAngel We have quite a few of the same but we do have our different ones for example We celebrate thanksgiving in October but there’s only a harvest festival option for America which is in November I think it should depend based on what country you have your switch connected to

[@HollyClementine]

I loved la-di-day so much lol cause I loved changing the town tune often but sucked at making my own. So I’d run around and let my villagers make one for me ♡ I miss it & miss all these random events and secrets to find. NH feels so lifeless

[@Nobodythatyoushouldcareabout]

What's the name of the song at like 8:34 ?

[@strawberrycollector]

I remember watching coverage of the Japanese version of New Leaf while waiting for it to release in the US and getting unreasonably excited for Setsubun, or more accurately the little box of beans you could use to actually throw beans. Yeah, I was excited to throw beans. Not sure why.

[@noemidelacruz1327]

I love your videos!!!

[@BestFriendBlueBerryYT]

Thanks for this new vid Rocket! I got the 500th like XD

[@ChicagoMel23]

I bet you could get the bean day stuff through fan servers. How come no one ever mentions the fan servers?

[@katiefield3396]

Great video you’re very underrated, new subscriber here :)

[@kivalily]

its really annoying how much content was never added to anch when i bought my switch because of it

[@JaronOdele]

HOW DID I KNOW THAT, AS SOON AS YOU MENTIONED THE GC RELEASE, YOU WERE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE SPRING SPORTS FAIR?!?

[@yws4645]

Guns being canon in AC is hilarious

[@hecknfrick4236]

I've played only new leaf and new horizon, though I didn't know about weed day. We should bring that back and make it on 4/20

[@ricilisa881]

I miss the fleamarket event🥺

[@KayMayCosplay]

I wondered why WW didn't have holidays so I made my own up. But I now know that the deployment team took holidays out to support the Wii and DS Wifi compatibilities.

[@XxRosefang_11]

Wait wait wait- my birthday twin has a freaking gun!?

[@yumzzzie]

The first game I’ve played was wild world and now I know some new facts now I want the GameCube ver. Of animal crossing

[@Mudfire15]

You've never heard of a starting gun...?

[@TMcswain09]

I do feel like AC Pop. Growing had the most events compared to any other version of AC Even if some of them felt pointless. I'm not talking about the minor celebrations you see in New horizons, I'm talking about events that the whole town is involved in. I hope for the next animal crossing game they bring back a lot of the missing celebrities and plentiful events that are more interactive

[@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

fun fact, if you dig up an egg tree in nh then plant it again it turns into a regular tree

[@houraisheperd9721]

Was expecting this to be about Animal Shootout, a hoax “alternate version” of Animal Crossing you can get in the GC version by breaking into Nook’s shop at night (no, you can’t do that) that was popular in the early 2000s.

[@goldensun1167]

3:06 HELLO OLD VERSION OF MY LIL GYM BOI BILL!

[@aboxyguy]

not an old holiday but im really bummed by the missed potential of acnh's wedding season event, we shouldve gotten more of them. it was the perfect blueprint to bring back older npcs, introduce new furniture sets, and work with acnh's update approach. it had the same vibe of pocket camps seasonal events that'd last the whole week to unlock these exotic items. but we only ever got one of them..

[@themarioking7127]

All of nh is missed potential, it's no big surprise.

[@aboxyguy]

@@themarioking7127 i will say by the end of the updates id consider it a "complete" game, all the QOL improvements and features still gave the game a ton of value. it just stings knowing how much was still cut from past games and how half baked the new stuff is. id feel pretty open to a NH deluxe style sequel where it just builds off the main game+dlc and perfects it

[@andreworders7305]

12:24 plus you have to do all this on real world Christmas

[@ShwintyKat]

I was always upset that I never completed the lighthouse tasks for Tortimer as a kid, my mom always either had me in bed by the time it started or had me out somewhere else.

[@goldensun1167]

16:11 if you dress up like Jack and talk to a villager and actually freaks them out and they’re like what Jack no and then they’re like oh it’s just you

[@threelegmeg]

Oh my god i completely forgot about La-Di-Day. I loved that day

[@MysticalMist3]

Oh gosh, I'm having nightmares of the first Bunny Day in NH. I remember it being the WORST! I still have eggs scattered around from that first Bunny Day. So annoying!!!

[@justinbarton8808]

Halloween in animal crossing 2024: Gimme some Candy or else!…. (Pulls out a gun)…what?

[@aniahliepard]

I'm pretty sure the flea market thing is in New Horizons! It's just really rare and you'd have to pester a villager to get it to happen

[@discussingwhattodo5381]

It’s not

[@BeastWarzIII]

Nice clip of chuggaaconrroy on 0:22

[@annecoburn5856]

I’m playing animal Crossing right now, and when he mentioned the gun thing, I walked into a villagers house, and they offered to give me of her bed and altar

[@FrostBeauty]

I guess it’s not common in the USA but in some Asian and European countries having a special day for sports in schools is quite common and it’s generally at the beginning of spring for reference. Same goes for the said gun it is used to mark the beginning of the race. Flag the duckie has been waving is more likely to be for cheering the competitors! ✨

[@elizabethbentley2582]

nah nah we have that too we call it field day in america but its mostly for elementary school, tho my private high school did it too. we do races and tug of war, and we all wear class team shirts. its in spring to celebrate the end of the school year before we get out for summer vacation. we used to use guns to start races it scared the shit outa me at 5K races but seeing how gun violence is no laughing matter in the us i bet we dont do that anymore

[@testerwulf3357]

@@elizabethbentley2582 Yea we never had a starting pistol for field day at my school. It also included stuff like water balloon fights (you'd get wet during field day basically..in my middle school there were just water slides and little food stands, you'd get a ticket every hour I think and could spend it on one of the stands..you got a limited amount so you'd have to be sure on what you got), but that may of just been my schools?

[@FrostBeauty]

@@elizabethbentley2582 its pretty cool that most countries have this little tradition for the kids. IDK why but I find this cute!

[@Elly_Bee_]

As a European, I hated it and my mom let me stay home but I would imagine every country has a day dedicated to sports or physical health

[@redninjakitty14neko26]

ive played new leaf for years. I DO NOT REMEMBER THAT BEAN ONE AT ALL LOL

[@TyuErt]

What's your issue with starting pistols?