I think that, like with POKéMON, they expect you to live in some big city where you pass by people playing the game all of the time. Similarly, prices you can get at Re-Tail go up if you pass by enough people through StreetPass (although it might only last for a day). A pretty lame mode, might I add.), took the train, and then it placed a little save file on a memory card that you could give to other people to play in their town with their memory card in the other slot.GAH! I can't remember, but it was so annoying, whatever way it was. In City Folk, Rover rode the bus with you at the beginning, and in Wild World, he only appeared at the café or if you used that one mode in that game where you threw messages in bottles out into the ocean and sent them to other people's games. Hence why Rover says that he hadn't been riding the rails since 2003. His appearance in New Leaf is a callback. blah blah blah.Īctually, I think it might have been that you went to Porter (Porter actually hasn't been in an Animal Crossing game since the original. You had to take the memory card of the person whose town you wanted to visit, stick it into your GameCube, and play, then take the memory card, give it back to the person, etc. In older Animal Crossing games (especially the original) travelling between towns was ridiculously inconvenient. (That's how it was in older games in the series, if I do recall correctly). Sort of like a hawker or travelling merchant or something like that, I guess. One of the ideas is that you can travel between towns to see what the turnip prices are, and sell them.