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Video Games
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1980s: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) gives gaming industry a boost with ‘Super Mario Bros’ and ‘The Legend of Zelda’
1990s: Personal Computers became more affordable and PC gaming rose in popularity. Console Wars between Sega, Nintendo and eventually Sony’s Playstation meant competition and quality increased rapidly.
2000s: Microsoft X Box entered market. Graphics continued to improve and console editions continued to proliferate
Present: Mobile gaming became increasingly popular from late 2000s. Recent years, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) enter the market
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Animal Crossing
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is part of a franchise of video games developed and published by Nintendo. Original game produced in 2001.
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It became the first console game to reach five million digital sales within a month, with the high sales often attributed to the social distancing and stay at home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AC:NH was one of the games in the series that was given extra DLC (downloadable content) post release.
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New Horizons eclipsed the lifetime sales of all past instalments within its first six weeks of release, becoming the second-best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch system with 47 million sales (as of 2025).
New Horizons grossed an estimated $2 billion in its first year as of March 2021, the fifth highest ever first-year revenue for any video game.
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