Spaceball

エアーバッター ズームをきにするな！ 心でボールを打て！ 視覚に頼るな！ どんと行け〜！ Rhythm Tengoku	Air Batter Don't mind the zoom! Hit the ball with feeling! Don't rely on your sight! Go with a bang~! (Translation)

エアーバッター ズームをきにするな！ 心でボールを打て！ 視覚に頼らず、かつ飛ばせ〜！ Rhythm Tengoku	Air Batter Don't mind the zoom! Hit the ball with feeling! Don't rely on your sight, and let it fly~! (Translation)

Spaceball

Ignore the camera's wild zooms! Make the ball zoom wildly away! Don't blink! Don't wipe your tears!

Rhythm Heaven Megamix

Spaceball (エアーバッター^?, Air Batter) is the 4th Rhythm Game of Stage 1 (4th overall) in Rhythm Tengoku and the 1st in Lush Tower (28th overall) in Rhythm Heaven Megamix.

Spaceball

Image

Number

4
28

Version^?

Long

Gift

"エアーバッター速報" (Air Batter Report)
Flow Ball

STAGE 1
<< >>

<< Lush Tower >>
<< >>

The arrange version, Air Batter 2, appears in Last Technician in Rhythm Tengoku.

Gameplay

In this game, the Air Batter hits baseballs that come out from a flowerpot in a small, green box in space. Ocassionally, the balls are shot higher up, requiring the player to wait an extra beat before hitting it. The Space Umpire sits in a UFO on the windowsill in the middle of the box. The camera zooms in and out, sometimes very far, during gameplay.

In the middle of the game, while the Air Batter is hidden offscreen by the zoom, he appears to change into a pink/purple costume with a bunny mask. After this, the screen zooms way out, with him changing into a yellow/blue costume and a red spherical head mask which comically emotes as he swings. At the very end, a rice ball is shot out instead.

Controls

• Ⓐ/Tap: Swing bat

Timing Display

• Perfect!/Ace!^?: The ball flies offscreen.
• Early!/Late!^?: The ball bounces off the bat with a "doink" and falls down.
• Miss...^?: The ball falls in the hole in the floor.

Results

	つうしんぼ (Scorecard)	つうしんぼ (Scorecard)
	きほんが　できてません。(Focus on the basics.) タメが　かっこわるい。(Your grip is uncool.) 見た目に　たよりすぎです。(You can't do it without visuals.)	きほんが　できてません。(Focus on the basics.) タメが　かっこわるい。(Your grip is uncool.) 見た目に　たよりすぎです。(You can't do it without visuals.)
	う～ん．．． まぁまぁ、　かな。 とりあえず．．． よしと　します。	(Hmm...) (Well, I wonder.) (For now...) (All right.)
	タメが　しっかりしている！(Your grip is firm!) 見えなくても　できている！(You can do it even without visuals!)	タメが　しっかりしている！(Your grip is firm!) 見えなくても　できている！(You can do it even without visuals!)

	Scorecard
	Weak hits. Work on your grip.
	Eh. Passable.
	Solid hitting. Nice grip!

Epilogue

	これで ゆるしてください。	さらに上を目指して練習だ！	こんなの もらっちゃったー！
	(Please have this in forgiveness.)	(Practice to get even better!)	(I got this!)

	File:Epilogue GBA Spaceball Extra NG.png	File:Epilogue GBA Spaceball Extra OK.png	File:Epilogue GBA Spaceball Extra HI.png
	うわつ、ダメだ〜！	えい。	やりましたー！！

	C-can I have my ball back? I'll give you my last dumpling...	Must...train...harder...	I won first "space"!

Rhythm Item

Rice Ball	Lunchtime Regrets
	This rice ball was supposed to be my lunch. I didn't mean to knock it into the endless void of space--it was supposed to fill the endless void of my stomach. So...hungry...

Skill Star

The Skill Star appears on a high ball in the midpoint of the game.

Challenge Land

Spaceball appears in the following Challenge Train courses:

• Simplicity Is Best
• Game Gamble: Beginner
• Be a Good Sport
• Extreme Sports
• Monster Maw 2
• Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

Appearances

• 

  Air Batter
  Remix 1
  Remix 6
  Remix 7

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  Air Batter 2

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  Air Batter
  Extra Remix

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  Spaceball
  Left-Hand Remix

• 

  Lush Remix

Air Batter

エアーバッター ズームをきにするな！ 心でボールを打て！ 球の速さに負けずにかっ飛ばせ〜！ Rhythm Tengoku	Air Batter Don't mind the zoom! Hit the ball with feeling! Don't lose to the speed and let it fly~! (Translation)

エアーバッター

Image

Number

52

Version^?

Extra

EXTRA
<< >>

Air Batter (エアーバッター ^?, Eā Battā ) is 4th Rhythm Game of Extra in Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade).

Here, the Air Batter is colored blue and wears different masks - an orange alien and a blue square head. The tempo is also increased and there's a new arrangement of the music.

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Air Batter 2P

エアーバッター 2P ズームをきにするな！ 心でボールを打て！ 視覚に頼らず、かつ飛ばせ〜！ Rhythm Tengoku	Air Batter 2P Don't mind the zoom! Hit the ball with feeling! Don't rely on your sight, and let it fly~! (Translation)

エアーバッター 2P

Image

Number

4

Version^?

Two Player

STAGE 1
<< >>

Air Batter 2P (エアーバッター 2P^?, Eā Battā 2P) is the 4th Rhythm Game of Stage 1 (4th overall) in the 2P mode of Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade).

The arrange version, Air Batter 2 2P, appears in Stage 5 in the 2P mode of Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade).

The game has a split screen to accomodate the second player.

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Air Batter 2P

エアーバッター2P ズームをきにするな！ 心でボールを打て！ 球の速さに負けずにかっ飛ばせ〜！ Rhythm Tengoku	Air Batter 2P Don't mind the zoom! Hit the ball with feeling! Don't lose to the speed and let it fly~! (Translation)

エアーバッター 2P

Image

Number

24

Version^?

Two Player

EXTRA
<< >>

Air Batter 2P (エアーバッター 2P ^?, Eā Battā 2P ) is the 4th Rhythm Game of Extra (24th overall) in the 2P mode of Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade).

Here, the Air Batter is colored blue and wears different masks - an orange alien and a blue square head. The tempo is also increased and there's a new arrangement of the music. The game has a split screen to accomodate the second player.

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Video

File:Rhythm Heaven Megamix - Spaceball (Perfect) (English)

Trivia

• Although the game lacks a conventional Practice, the real game doesn't actually start until the player hits a few balls correctly. The game was given a tutorial in the arcade version in addition to this, and a Practice replacing it in Rhythm Heaven Megamix.
• The epilogue depicts yellow aliens on a brown rocky planet, which aren't seen during gameplay. A similar looking cyan alien appears in First Contact in Rhythm Heaven Megamix.

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	エアーバッター	Air Batter
EnglishNOA	Spaceball
EnglishNOE	Spaceball
French	Baseball de l'espace	Space baseball
Spanish	Béisbol espacial	Space baseball
Italian	Spaceball
Korean	타자	Batter