Ringside

Ringside Live from ringside! We hear the champ's innermost thoughts and feelings after the match! 　Rhythm Heaven Fever	Ringside Live from ringside! Even tired wrestlers have to give something back to their fans after a match. Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise

Ringside

Live from ringside! We hear the champ's innermost thoughts and feelings after the match!

Rhythm Heaven Megamix

Ringside

Image

File:Ringside.PNG

File:Ringside 3DS title.PNG

Number

16
60

Gift

Wrestler's Weekly
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Ringside (レスラー会見^?, Wrestler Kaiken) is the 16th minigame in Rhythm Heaven Fever and the 60th minigame in Rhythm Heaven Megamix. The game is about a wrestler who is having a post-game interview with a reporter after a match in Rhythm Arena.

Gameplay

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File:Ringside 3DS gameplay.png

The game has you, playing as a wrestler, getting interviewed after a match. The reporter, the young girl, will give you several cues you need to respond to:

• "Wubbadubbadubba, is that true?" (Japanese: ペケペケペケですか？ pekepekepeke desuka?, Korean: 그게 정말 사실인가요? geuge jeongmal sasil-ingayo?): The player has to respond after the phrase is done in three beats. To respond, press the A button.
• "Woah, you go, big guy!" (Japanese: へえ～すごいですネ！ Hee sugoi desu ne!, Korean: 와!대단하네요! wa!daedanhaneyo! ) : The player needs to show off after the phrase is finished. To show off your muscles, press A twice at the same time.
• "Pose for the fans!" (Japanese: こっち見て！ Kotchi mite!, Korean: 여기보세요! yeogiboseyo!) This phrase is accompanied by the screen zooming out. After it is finished, the player needs to strike a pose. To pose for the fans, press both A and B together. In Megamix, just press the B button.

The commands will come in many different patterns, with varying distances between them.

Controls

Rhythm Heaven Fever

• Ⓐ: Answer (once) or flex (twice)
• Ⓐ+Ⓑ: Pose for the fans

Rhythm Heaven Megamix

• Ⓐ/Tap: Answer (once) or flex (twice)
• Ⓑ/Tap: Pose for the fans

Timing Display

• Perfect!/Ace!: With the "Wubbadubbadubba, is that true?" or "Woah, you go, big guy!" command, a camera flash will happen afterward. With the "Pose for the fans!", multiple camera flashes will appear, as well as a radial background. On occasion, a newspaper will appear with the picture on it.
• Early!/Late!: Messing up on a "Wubbadubbadubba, is that true?" will cause the wrestler to cough when answering. Messing up on a "Woah, you go, big guy!" will cause only one part of the showing off to be done. Messing up on the "Pose for the fans!" will make only one person take a photo, which will be grayed and scratchy.
• Miss...: Missing any command will cause the reporter to frown and give you a look. Using a command when not told to will make the wrestler look sideways while using the respond command, and either make the reporter nervous (respond command) or make her flinch back in shock (pose command).

Results

	Tomorrow's Headlines()	Tomorrow's Headlines()
	Wrestler fumbles reporter's questions. Wrestler makes fool of self posing.	Wrestler fumbles reporter's questions. Wrestler makes fool of self posing.
	Eh. Good enough.	Good try.
	Wrestler exudes confidence and wit! Wrestler poses impressively!	Wrestler exudes confidence and wit! Wrestler poses impressively!

	In the next day's news...
	Wrestler ignores reporter's questions. Wrestler's pose lacks finesse.
	Eh. Passable.
	Wrestler exudes confidence and wit! Wrestler's physique causes a stir!

	Tomorrow's Headlines
	Wrestler fumbles reporter's questions. Wrestler makes fool of self posing. Wrestler flustered by encouragement.
	Eh. Passable.
	Wrestler exudes confidence and wit! Wrestler poses impressively! Wrestler accepts compliments gracefully!

Epilogue

	File:Ringside Try Again.png	File:Ringside OK.png	File:Ringside Superb.png
	Oh no! Not the mask!	Go, go, go! Take him down!	No question (or opponent) is too tough for this guy!
	Wrestler, don't give up! Keep your mask on!	Come on! You can do it! Wrestler, take him down!	He's big and tough! And his name is Wrestler!

	File:Ringside 3DS Try Again.PNG	File:Ringside 3DS OK.PNG	File:Ringside 3DS Superb.PNG
	Oh no! Not the mask!	Go, go, go! Take him down!	No question (or opponent) is too tough for this guy!

Rhythm Item

Sports Page	Like Father...
File:Sprite 3DS Rhythm Item Sports Page.png.png	When the wrestler's father was asked if he saved news articles about his son, he simply nodded and made an affirmative-sounding grunt.

Skill Star

The Skill Star appears on the second pose for the fans with a newspaper.

Challenge Land

Ringside appears in the following Challenge Train courses:

• Game Gamble: Intermediate
• Hello, Ladies...
• Wario...Where? 2: The Sequel

Appearances

• Ringside Practice.png

  Ringside (Practice)

• Ringside Remix 10.png

  Ringside
  Remix 10

• Ringside Remix 4.png

  Remix 4

• Ringside Remix 9.png

  Remix 9

• Ringside 3DS gameplay.png

  Ringside
  Left-Hand Remix

• Ringside Songbird.png

  Songbird Remix

• Wariowhere2.PNG

  Wario...Where? 2: The Sequel

Two-Player Mode

A version of the game can be unlocked in the two-player mode. It requires you to beat the original game and the previous two-player game, Tambourine.

The game has the first player playing a wrestler with blue clothing, and the second playing a wrestler with orange clothing, each marker with the number of their player. The reporter will give the commands, and the player will respond. The reporter will always ask the same thing to them, so the players just need to do the same thing.

File:Ringside 2 mode gameplay.png

The gameplay of the 2-player mode of Ringside

Trivia

• Parodies of Ringside has appeared all over the Internet, particularly YouTube, showcasing a character and an odd phrase or personality trait of said character. This is documented on its page on Know Your Meme.
• The newspaper that can pop up after a successful "Pose for the fans!" command says "Nintendo Times" on it, referencing the Rhythm Heaven series' developer and publisher company, Nintendo.
• The "Wubbadubbadubba" commands that are stated as "questions" appear to suggest that the wrestler is not actually listening to the reporter, and is just responding with the same thing each time. This is supported by the game's reading material, which has the wrestler saying "Eh" to all the questions, despite them being actual questions.
• In the Japanese version, while reading the practice, the reporter will say 「〜〜〜ですか？」 ("〜〜〜desuka?"). The 〜 probably means the words that he isn't listening to
• In the Japanese version, the blue squares with stars say "YONE"; a reference to one of game's developers, Masami Yone, whose notebook sketches resulted in the concept of Ringside. In the American, European and Korean versions of the game, his name is omitted.
  • In Nintendo's Iwata Asks, Masami Yone stated that the basis of the idea stemmed from the cutting of a wedding cake. He mentions that while one would be trying to concentrate on the cutting of the cake, wedding guests would take pictures and request the person's attention. He thought that the idea of a cake-cutting rhythm game didn't seem too promising and came up with the interview scenario instead.
• Ringside is included in the Rhythm Heaven Megamix Demo, but only its practice session is playable. Once practice is completed, the demo ends. This makes Ringside the only rhythm game included in the demo unavailable for play.
• In Rhythm Heaven Fever, the background in the OK rate has blue and orange stripes in it, but in Megamix, it was fixed to have orange and yellow stripes instead, just like in the game when the Wrestler is doing poses. This happens in the Korean version of Fever, as well.
• This game appears in the "Wario...Where? 2: The Sequel" Challenge Train. In this version, you play as Wrestler, dressed like Wario-Man. who is getting interviewed by Reporter, dressed like Mona. Mona herself can be seen outside the Rhythm Arena at the very beginning and at the end of the game.
• In the Japanese version of this game, there are 2 variants for "Wubbadubbadubba, is that true?" and 2 variants for "Woah, you go big guy!". However, in the US version of this game, there are 3 variants for the 2 commands listed earlier.

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	レスラー会見	Wrestler Interview
French	Interview sportive	Sports interview
Spanish	Entrevista movidita	Hectic interview
Italian	Intervista sportiva	Sports interview
Dutch	Ringside
Portuguese	Ringside
Korean	레슬러 기자 회견	Wrestler Press Conference