National Videogame Museum

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people are still facing lockdowns and quarantine, forced to stay inside and keep themselves busy with video games or other forms of media entertainment.

Luckily, Animal Crossing: New Horizons managed to come out at the perfect time, allowing Switch owners to forget all about the unfortunate state of the world and dive into a video game where you can go fishing and be in debt to a sneaky little raccoon.

And that’s where this new Animal Crossing project comes into play.

The National Videogame Museum over in Frisco, Texas, has been awarded a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Museum Association to collect “histories” of gamers who have been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons during lockdown.

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