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I played New Leaf for the first time on June 9th 2013, its North American release date! I was in my last couple weeks of grade 5 at the time and coincidentally had the day off school that day, which made me so happy!! I was so excited to have a long weekend to myself to do nothing but play!
I played almost every day for just over 4 years, until I eventually lost interest in it and stopped playing in late 2017.
Also played it at release or very close to it, and ended up playing on and off for years. I still play it to this day because I still find new things to do and enjoy in it. Comparatively, I haven't touched my new NH island in months at this point.
I may have one of the later starting dates here. I first played on December 22, 2017. A Christmas gift from my then-gf now-wife. Played for a good 5-6 months which brought me to discover TBT when looking for hybrids.
Funny that I knew the game existed in 2013 but never played it because I wasn’t into handheld at the time. Big mistake!
In 2013 when it came out! Like day of! That was the first day when I bought the 3DS XL as well. I remember standing there debating on the XL or regular, almost wanting the regular to save money but ultimately went for the bigger screen and thank god I did haha.
My activity log says "First Played 3/14/2014".
My sister bought it for me after I graduated high school, I remember taking my 3DS with me to college and getting so many street passes back in the good ol' days.
I played New Leaf on release day. I remember having my aunt drive to several different Gamestop stores just so I could get this game. Everywhere was sold out, but I eventually found it at the seventh store.
30th of july 2013! i was also 10/11, my dad took my original towns game chip as punishment and then lost it. i was so upset since i had grinded the full princess set. i guess its best that its gone though since i named the town paris
I started playing it right at launch! I remember getting to GameStop an hour early to pick the game up since I had nothing better to do, and the manager let me in half an hour before the game launched so I could buy the game. I ended up spending a rather unhealthy amount of time playing the game in the following weeks, but it was well worth it in my opinion!
My first time playing was June 24, 2015 and I still have my town from that day! I wish I had gotten myself on to these forums back then but at least I'm here now.
my first time was july 4, 2015 i was visiting my grandparents and my grandma went ahead and bought it for me !! i was so excited and a couple days later i discovered this forum while looking up acnl related things lol
June 14th 2013 is when I first got the game! I don't remember much because I was sick and my sister just suddenly got it. It took a bit for me to learn there can be multiple player characters so mine was actually created on June 17th. But I briefly played on the other file before then.
I also find it very interesting I'm not the only one who had just recently graduated high school, haha.
i think i first played new leaf when i met someone on holiday when i was around 10 or 11 that had brought their 3DS with them!! i made a new profile on their 3DS and shook a lot of apple trees which i sold at retail.
I preordered it, so UK release day! I remember being really envious of the US release date bc it came out on my birthday over there and I had to wait an extra few days.