Trivia subpages per installment:
- Animal Crossing (2001)
- Animal Crossing: Wild World
- Animal Crossing: City Folk
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Animal Crossing: The Movie
- Cash-Cow Franchise: Has become a big one for Nintendo over the years, due to the success of many of its mainline games.
- Feelies: The GameCube version came with a 59-block memory card with a special Animal Crossing sticker and a bonus gift save file. Enforced since the original game took up a whopping 57 blocks (with a separate 1-block save for NES save data, which makes 58 blocks), which necessitated its own card since the 1019-block card was years away and the game easily took an enormous bite out of the 251-block card. Similarly, the original Nintendo 64 version included a Controller Pak.
- No Export for You:
- Want to cuddle with a plush of your favorite Animal Crossing character and you live outside Japan? Be prepared to part with a lot of cash to have them imported. The US did get some during the Wild World era, but production and importation of the toys for the US market seem to have ceased since.
- Nintendo Zone-exclusive DLC. If you live in a country where there are no Nintendo Zones, you're pretty much screwed. Similarly, region-specific DLC items (such as New Leaf's Japan-only 7-Eleven set) or items associated with region specific holidays (e.g., the Labor Day picnic basket in the North American version); however, if you're lucky, you might be able to find someone from the region who's willing to trade with you online. Nintendo Zone did eventually start bringing out foreign-region items as downloads, but that just goes back to the former problem.
- Science Marches On:
- Seismosaurus is one of the dinosaurs the player can dig up in the second and third game, even though that turned out to be a dubious genus and instead a species of Diplodocus. The fourth game, however, managed to acknowledge this and renamed it Diplodocus.
- The Spinosaurus fossils in New Horizons have been updated with shorter limbs and a different sail to be more similar to more complete skeletons described in 2014
. Sadly it fell victim to this trope again only one month after the game's release, as new fossils showed the animal had a large, fluke-like tail fitting its apparent aquatic lifestyle, rather than the more terrestrially-adapted tail in the game.
- Urban Legend of Zelda:
- To this day, there are still multiple "guides" being posted on how to get Rover as an NPC in your town for any and all the games. Naturally, they're all fake.
- There have been rumors that Resetti actually deletes the game's save data, instead of merely joking about it. The worst thing he actually does is fake the system turning off.
