History Trivia / AnimalCrossingNewHorizons

** Stones, Iron Nuggets and Gold Nuggets are sometimes called Nuggies, Super Nuggies, and Hyper Nuggies, respectively, as a themed set of names and their respective potency in ItemCrafting.

* BannedInChina: Officially, the game is banned for import or domestic sale in China due to depictions of the supernatural--i.e., Wisp. This ''does'' track with the CCP's established media rules, and ''New Horizons'' was never cleared for legal distribution in the first place, but the game was selling relatively quietly on the grey market until [[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/china_bans_sales_of_animal_crossing_new_horizons_in_suspected_censorship_scuffle it was discovered that players were using the custom patterns feature to spread anti-CCP and pro-Hong Kong messages]]. However, there are hints in the credits that a mainland-China specific version is in the works.

* BannedInChina: Officially, the game is banned for import or domestic sale in China due to depictions of the supernatural--i.e., Wisp. This ''does'' track with the CCP's established media rules, and it should be noted that ''New Horizons'' was never cleared for legal distribution in the first place, but the game was selling relatively quietly on the grey market until [[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/china_bans_sales_of_animal_crossing_new_horizons_in_suspected_censorship_scuffle it was discovered that players were using the custom patterns feature to spread anti-CCP and pro-Hong Kong messages]]. However, there are hints in the credits that a mainland-China specific version is in the works.

* BadExportForYou: My Nintendo and Switch Online services are not available in many parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, so for those regions, this is the first ''Animal Crossing'' where it isn't possible to visit another island over the internet. And if the China-specific version does come to fruition, expect this trope to be in play.
* BannedInChina: Officially, the game is banned for import or domestic sale in China due to depictions of the supernatural--i.e., Wisp. This ''does'' track with the CCP's established media rules, and it should be noted that ''New Horizons'' was never cleared for legal distribution in the first place, but the game was selling relatively quietly on the grey market until [[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/china_bans_sales_of_animal_crossing_new_horizons_in_suspected_censorship_scuffle it was discovered that players were using the custom patterns feature to spread anti-CCP and pro-Hong Kong messages]]. However, there are hints in the credits that a mainland-China specific version may be in the works.

* BigNameFan: Several well-known celebrities such as Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/BrieLarson, Creator/MaisieWilliams, Chrissy Teigan, and even Music/LinkinPark's Mike Shinoda have notably been known or reported to play ''New Horizons'', even sharing their player activity on social media and in Elijah Woods’ case, visiting fans’ islands. Wood even set up an online talk show, dubbed ''Animal Talking'', that operates within the game's online multiplayer feature. Shinoda, meanwhile, has on several occasions streamed the game on Twitch when not making music jams.

* BadExportForYou: My Nintendo and Switch Online services are not available in many parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, so for those regions, this is the first ''Animal Crossing'' where it isn't possible to visit another island over the internet.

* BannedInChina: Officially, the game is banned for import or domestic sale in China due to depictions of the supernatural--i.e., Wisp. This ''does'' track with the CCP's established media rules, and it should be noted that ''New Horizons'' was never cleared for legal distribution in the first place, but the game was selling relatively quietly on the grey market until [[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/china_bans_sales_of_animal_crossing_new_horizons_in_suspected_censorship_scuffle it was discovered that players were using the custom patterns feature to spread anti-CCP and pro-Hong Kong messages]].

** Expected for the official iQue port for mainland China (if the credits screen are any indication). Not only would Wisp be completely absent and some items removed for being against Chinese censorship laws, but online capabilities would be restricted if even offered.
* BannedInChina: Officially, the game is banned for import or domestic sale in China due to depictions of the supernatural--i.e., Wisp. This ''does'' track with the CCP's established media rules, and it should be noted that ''New Horizons'' was never cleared for legal distribution in the first place, but the game was selling relatively quietly on the grey market until [[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/china_bans_sales_of_animal_crossing_new_horizons_in_suspected_censorship_scuffle it was discovered that players were using the custom patterns feature to spread anti-CCP and pro-Hong Kong messages]]. However the credits of the game hints at a iQue port, which suggests the presence of a mainland China-only version that is heavily butchered in content.

** And taking the joke it's logical conclusion, [[https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Tybalt Tybalt]] started being jokingly called ''Maybank'' (after another bank who has a Malayan tiger - same species as Tybalt - as it's mascot) by Malaysian fans.

** And similar to Octavian, Tybalt started being jokingly called ''Maybank'' (after another bank who has a Malayan tiger - same species as Tybalt - as it's mascot) jokingly by Malaysian fans to take the joke to it's logical conclusion.

** Some hackers came up with a way to make star fragments literally grow on trees; screenshots got spread around without context, leading to rumors that there's some way to plant star fragments similar to how you can [[GrowsOnTrees plant money]] in the daily glowing hole. Obviously, non-hacked versions of the game don't let you do this. Additional rumors claimed that ending up with one of these hacked items could corrupt your save file or (somehow) brick the entire console; there's no evidence for any of that, though this myth probably originates from [[https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Seeds_(hacking) debug items in earlier games]] that really were capable of screwing up someone's save file.

* DummiedOut: According to data-mines, there are various shops and features hidden in the game files, namely The Roost, called the Museum Cafe and the fan-favorite diving feature from ''New Leaf''. This trope seems to gradually become more averted as the months go by, as many of the features in the game files have been added to the main game overtime.

* BigNameFan: Several well-known celebrities such as Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/BrieLarson, Creator/MaisieWilliams, Creator/ChrissyTeigan, and even Music/LinkinPark's Mike Shinoda have notably been reported to play New Horizons, even sharing their player activity on social media and in Elijah Woods’ case, visiting fans’ islands. Wood even set up an online talk show, dubbed ''Animal Talking'', that operates within the game's online multiplayer feature.

* BigNameFan: Celebrities such as Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/BrieLarson, Creator/MaisieWilliams and Creator/ChrissyTeigan have notably been reported to play New Horizons, even sharing their player activity on social media and in Elijah Woods’ case, visiting fans’ islands. Wood even set up an online talk show, dubbed ''Animal Talking'', that operates within the game's online multiplayer feature.

** After players noticed the amount of features from previous games that were absent here and Nintendo's announcement of using periodic updates to add in real-world holidays, fans predicted that the cut features would make returns over time with updates of their own, and these rumors were galvanized following dataminers uncovering ID data in the game's code for various locations and characters not present in the game on launch day (most notably the art gallery, which had been a standard part of the museum throughout the series prior to ''New Horizons''). Come the announcement of the April 23, 2020 update, and these speculations would be confirmed true, with multiple features and characters from ''New Leaf''--including the art gallery--returning.

* NewbieBoom: While the franchise was already hugely popular thanks to an earlier newbie boom spurned on by ''New Leaf'', the positive word of mouth for ''New Horizons'' from long-time players, increased prominence of social media since 2012/2013, and popularity of the Nintendo Switch as a console attracted even more new players to the fanbase than before.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** A number of fans have noted how the bassline of the [[https://youtu.be/h6s6I0tu8GA 7 AM song]] sounds very close to Music/MichaelBuble's [[https://youtu.be/SPUJIbXN0WY "Everything"]] and [[https://youtu.be/1AJmKkU5POA "Haven't Met You Yet"]].
** Likewise, a number of fans have noted how the baseline of the [[https://youtu.be/RQMoNx3RFXM 2 PM song]] sounds very close to the bassline of [[https://youtu.be/SFEewD4EVwU "Spinning Wheel"]] by Blood, Sweat and Tears.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPRifSrQcOs One of the tunes]] K.K. Slider can play if the player requests an invalid song, featuring the internal name [="Hazure02"=], sounds uncannily similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ijMDQgvW0o "Sparkle"]] by J-pop artist Tatsuro Yamashita. For this reason, the FanNickname "K.K. Sparkle" emerged for the track in lieu of an official title beyond its filename.

** A number of fans have noted how the bassline of the [[https://youtu.be/h6s6I0tu8GA 7AM song]] sounds very close to ''Music/MichaelBuble’s'' ''[[https://youtu.be/SPUJIbXN0WY Everything]]'' or ''[[https://youtu.be/1AJmKkU5POA Haven’t Met You Yet]]''.
** Likewise, a number of fans have noted how the baseline of the [[https://youtu.be/RQMoNx3RFXM 2PM song]] sounds very close to the bassline of [[https://youtu.be/SFEewD4EVwU "Spinning Wheel"]] by Blood, Sweat and Tears.

** Likewise, a number of fans have noted how the baseline of the [[https://youtu.be/RQMoNx3RFXM 2PM song]] sounds very close to the bassline of ''[[https://youtu.be/SFEewD4EVwU Spinning Wheel]]'' by ''Blood, Sweat and Tears''.

** There's a circulating rumor in social media involving Orville. If you did the Clap or Joy reaction until Orville blushes, either you'll be taken to a special island on your next mystery tour, or you'll just have increased odds of going to a more valuable island, like Tarantula Island or Money Rock island. Some mutations of the rumor claim that odds increase further if you're wearing DAL merch. Dataminers and regular players alike have proven both false, with dataminers who reverse-engineered the code remarking that the island is statistically chosen and then encoded into the ticket at time of redemption.

* BigNameFan: Celebrities such as Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/BrieLarson, Creator/MaisieWilliams and Creator/ChrissyTeigan have notably been reported to play New Horizons, even sharing their player activity on social media and in Elijah Woods’ case, visiting fans’ islands.

** Various rumors circulate about how to get rid of unwanted villagers, such as whacking them repeatedly with your net, surrounding their house with fencing so they can't leave, or reporting them to Isabelle. As with the Mystery Tour myths, datamining has disproven all of these. The most persistent myth is that you need to ignore them to decrease their affection level, but even that doesn't help, and wouldn't really make sense since villagers cannot leave if you never talk to them. The only way to make villagers leave is to wait (by adjusting the console clock, if you're impatient) until they randomly produce the "thinking about moving" dialog, or invite an Amiibo villager and convince them to move in, then tell them the unwanted villager wants to move out[[note]]Which unfortunately is also rather unpredictable and slow due to the amiibo villagers feature being nerfed[[/note]]. "Discussing a resident" with Isabelle doesn't make them leave, it simply resets them to their default outfit and catchphrase. [[https://nintendoeverything.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-datamine-provides-details-about-how-villagers-move-out/ Dataminers have taken a look at the algorithm and have only ended up becoming confused by it]].

** Various rumors circulate about how to get rid of unwanted villagers, such as whacking them repeatedly with your net, surrounding their house with fencing so they can't leave, or reporting them to Isabelle. As with the Mystery Tour myths, datamining has disproven all of these. The most persistent myth is that you need to ignore them to decrease their affection level, but even that doesn't help, and wouldn't really make sense since villagers cannot leave if you never talk to them. The only way to make villagers leave is to wait (by adjusting the console clock, if you're impatient) until they randomly produce the "thinking about moving" dialog, or invite an Amiibo villager and convince them to move in, then tell them the unwanted villager wants to move out[[note]]Which unfortunately is also rather unpredictable and slow due to the amiibo villagers feature being nerfed[[/note]]. "Discussing a resident" with Isabelle doesn't make them leave, it simply resets them to their default outfit and catchphrase.[[https://nintendoeverything.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-datamine-provides-details-about-how-villagers-move-out/ Dataminers have taken a look at the algorithm and have only ended up becoming confused by it]].

** Various rumors circulate about how to get rid of unwanted villagers, such as whacking them repeatedly with your net, surrounding their house with fencing so they can't leave, or reporting them to Isabelle. As with the Mystery Tour myths, datamining has disproven all of these. The most persistent myth is that you need to ignore them to decrease their affection level, but even that doesn't help, and wouldn't really make sense since villagers cannot leave if you never talk to them. The only way to make villagers leave is to wait (by adjusting the console clock, if you're impatient) until they randomly produce the "thinking about moving" dialog, or invite an Amiibo villager and convince them to move in, then tell them the unwanted villager wants to move out[[note]]Which unfortunately is also rather unpredictable and slow due to the amiibo villagers feature being nerfed[[/note]]. "Discussing a resident" with Isabelle doesn't make them leave, it simply resets them to their default outfit and catchphrase.