Rusty's Real Deal Baseball is a sports game for the Nintendo 3DS, released exclusively through the Nintendo eShop. Developed and published by Nintendo, it was released August 8, 2013 in Japan and April 3, 2014 in North America. [1]
Gameplay[]
The game, which is free-to-play, allows the player to visit the shop of Rusty, who sells baseball-themed minigames. Though they initially cost $4.00, the player is able to haggle with Rusty to lower the prices to $2.00 or less by offering him items and listening to his stories about his life, wife, and puppies. The ten minigames included are "Make the Call," "Quick Catch," "Gear Games," "The Aim Game," "Volley Bats," "Bat & Switch" (which has an in-game demo), "Bat Master," "Cage Master," "Feel the Glove," and "Drop & Pop."
Regional Differences[]
- In the Japanese version, Rusty is named "Darumeshi" and has a much different design, with squinted eyes and big teeth. He wears a sweater vest instead of an orange T-shirt.
- Rusty's wife, Mitzi Slugger, also has a different design, with more squinted eyes like Darumeshi's, as well as brown hair and a pink shirt.
- Rusty's kids have designs that are mostly the same, save for a slightly different color scheme and dripping noses.
- Rusty's past mentor, Pappy Van Poodle, has a different outfit in the Japanese version, and is named Inuzo Toipu.
- Instead of offering Rusty donuts in the international versions, the player can offer boiled eggs in the Japanese version. The Japanese version also has a unique animation for Rusty peeling the shells of the boiled eggs.
- Nontendo is called "Hontendo" in the Japanese version.
- In the Japanese version, Mitzi Slugger runs a bar instead of a café.
- The mailbox outside the player's house was changed from green to red.
- There's a lucky cat in Rusty's store in the Japanese version; this was replaced by a baseball statue in the western release.
- The boxes for the games are slightly different, with the characters on them having slightly different designs, mostly just color changes.
- The landscapes for "Bat and Switch", throwing sections of "The Aim Game", and "Quick Catch" are slightly different. The Japanese version has these areas overlooking a hill and a train bridge. For some reason this was changed to be overlooking a river. There are also cherry blossom trees in the original version.
- In "Drop and Pop", the head design which is the final tire you hit in each level was originally a daruma doll face.
- Distances are measured in meters instead of feet in the Japanese version.
- The T-shirt your Mii can wear has a black stripe in the Japanese version.
3DS eShop Description[]
Feel the crack of the bat in a collection of baseball-themed minigames! Then, take a breather and haggle with hilarious ol' Rusty to lower the real-life Nintendo eShop price of additional batting, pitching, and fielding minigames, plus a whole lot more!
Knock it out of the park in a series of baseball-themed minigames that will have you swinging at disappearing fastballs, bringing down UFOs with the help of some rubber tires, or even becoming an umpire and ringing up batters. But before you play ball, you'll have to haggle with that miserable mutt, ex-pro baseball player Rusty Slugger, to lower the actual Nintendo eShop purchase price of each minigame! Don't worry, you can use weird in-game items like donuts and nose hair trimmers (that's not a typo) to help you get the lowest price possible.
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