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the island where a raccoon charges you rent to build a museum you'll never visit.
means a nintendo life-sim game where you inhabit a deserted island, pay off debt to a capitalist raccoon, and decorate obsessively.
from released march 2020, days before global lockdowns began, turning a cute animal crossing game into humanity's collective quarantine coping mechanism overnight.
launch timingsold 5 million copies in 11 days
tom nooknamed for raccoon dog, not actual raccoon
real-time clockgame runs on your system's actual date
aoc rallypoliticians campaigned inside the game in 2020