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{{GameInfobox | |||
' | | title = Rusty's Real Deal Baseball | ||
| jpntitle = だるめしスポーツ店 transl. “Darumeshi's Sports Shop” | |||
| image = RRDBBLogointro.jpg | |||
| releasedate = Japan: August 8 2013 | |||
North America: April 3 2014 | |||
South Korea: May 28 2014 | |||
| platforms = Nintendo 3DS (digital only) | |||
| developer = Nintendo | |||
| publisher = Nintendo | |||
| price = Free-to-play with microtransactions | |||
}} | |||
Never let it be said that Nintendo hasn’t tried to innovate in the video game business. '''''Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball''''' is a game about a depressed, over-the-hill former baseball player and talking dog named Rusty Slugger, who finds himself running a sporting goods store and raising ten children by himself. You play as Rusty’s sole customer, haggling with him to buy in-fiction video games ''with real money''. | |||
Never let it be said that Nintendo hasn’t tried to innovate in the video game business. ''Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball'' is a game about a depressed, over-the-hill former baseball player and talking dog named Rusty Slugger, who finds himself running a sporting goods store and raising ten children by himself. You play as Rusty’s sole customer, haggling with him to buy in-fiction video games ''with real money''. | |||
== Gameplay Video == | == Gameplay Video == | ||
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== Description == | == Description == | ||
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''Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball'' received a video game review in ''The New York Times'', marveling over its unique diegetic price structure. The headline “Where Winners Play, and Losers Pay” implies that you have to be good at the game in order to pay the minimum amount for each minigame, but that’s misleading. The Shop mode dialogue puzzles are very simple, and you only have to beat a very small percentage of the minigame challenges in order to unlock everything. The main obstacle is being willing to spend ~$20 and repeatedly navigate the laborious 3DS store checkout process. | ''Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball'' received a video game review in ''The New York Times'', marveling over its unique diegetic price structure. The headline “Where Winners Play, and Losers Pay” implies that you have to be good at the game in order to pay the minimum amount for each minigame, but that’s misleading. The Shop mode dialogue puzzles are very simple, and you only have to beat a very small percentage of the minigame challenges in order to unlock everything. The main obstacle is being willing to spend ~$20 and repeatedly navigate the laborious 3DS store checkout process. | ||
There are ten different in-fiction video games, all baseball-themed. None are so detailed as to involve playing a full game of baseball. They all focus on parts of baseball, like hitting, pitching, fielding, or even making a bat. The minigames are split into challenge levels and high-score derbies. In the challenge levels, you have a defined goal, like hit five home runs without a swing and miss. The high score derbies test your skills, giving you a grade rating and high score to try and play again and again to improve. Getting an A or above in a high score derby unlocks a new outfit for your Mii to wear in the game. | |||
== Minigames == | == Minigames == | ||
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* The four optional, non-story-crucial minigames can only be discounted through discount coupons. There are only a few extra discount coupons beyond what is needed to get each of these games to the minimum price of $1.50. It is possible to waste discount coupons by, for example, getting a game down to $1.80 then using a $1.00 Off coupon, which only lowers the price down to $1.50. | * The four optional, non-story-crucial minigames can only be discounted through discount coupons. There are only a few extra discount coupons beyond what is needed to get each of these games to the minimum price of $1.50. It is possible to waste discount coupons by, for example, getting a game down to $1.80 then using a $1.00 Off coupon, which only lowers the price down to $1.50. | ||
* Getting every minigame costs $16 total if you get a full discount on each game. The total cost of every game is $40 with no haggling and no discount coupons. There is an alternate ending involving Rusty’s mentor Pappy Van Poodle if you decide to pay the full price for each minigame. | * Getting every minigame costs $16 total if you get a full discount on each game. The total cost of every game is $40 with no haggling and no discount coupons. There is an alternate ending involving Rusty’s mentor Pappy Van Poodle if you decide to pay the full price for each minigame. | ||
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