Book Excerpt: Animal Crossing tracks the rise of the original cozy life sim

Published on August 27, 2024

Video game preservationist and historian Kelsey Lewin tells the story of how a mundane-sounding game full of bug-catching, letter-writing, and furniture-collecting became one of Nintendo's best-loved franchises.

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