NES Games

has a built in NES emulator, allowing players to play NES games that are available in the game. Some of these games can be won from Nook's Lottery, while others are gotten as promo items from special memory cards in certain Animal Crossing games. E-Reader cards also have a few games available for Animal Crossing.

The games available are:


 * Balloon Fight
 * Baseball
 * Clu Clu Land
 * Clu Clu Land D
 * Donkey Kong
 * Donkey Kong Jr.
 * Donkey Kong Jr. Math
 * Donkey Kong 3
 * Excitebike
 * Golf
 * Ice Climber
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * Mario Bros.
 * Pinball
 * Punch-Out!!
 * Soccer
 * Super Mario Bros.
 * Tennis
 * Wario's Woods.

The original Japanese release of Animal Forest+ for GameCube lacks Soccer and Excitebike, and instead features the early Famicom versions of Gomoku Narabe and ''Mahjong. These two famicom games were scrapped in and Animal Forest e+. The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. can only be obtained through Action Replay.''

The other games in the differing versions are exactly the same, totaling exactly 19 games in all GCN versions.

Clu Clu Land D, Soccer, Donkey Kong 3, Donkey Kong Jr. and Punch-Out were initially unavailable in-game, however Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe later released codes that could be used in the game to unlock them.

Advance Play is when the player links his or her Game Boy Advance to his or her GameCube to download the NES game to the handheld temporarily. This is not available for games that were originally produced for the Famicom Disk System, such as Clu Clu Land D and The Legend of Zelda. It is also not available for games larger than 192 KiB, such as Punch-Out!! and Wario's Woods, which cannot fit into the GBA's RAM. All other games can be played on Advance Play, but they are slightly stretched on the Game Boy's display (as in PocketNES) and are limited to one player.

The only games that cannot be obtained at all through normal means are Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Interestingly, Super Mario Bros. can be played via Advance Play, and the Japanese version includes a port of the Famicom Disk System version of The Legend of Zelda. This is odd as the English release replaces that with the English NES version of it, even though the game is completely inaccessible. This has led some to believe that these two games either are obtainable through an undiscovered universal code or they were originally intended to be unlocked via e-Reader as well, but e-Reader support has died off before it could happen and there is wanning interest in further hacking the GCN Animal Crossing.