Spaceball
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| Spaceball |
| Ignore the camera's wild zooms! Make the ball zoom wildly away! Don't blink! Don't wipe your tears! |
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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.
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
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つうしんぼ | (Scorecard) |
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きほんが できてません。 タメが かっこわるい。 見た目に たよりすぎです。 |
(Focus on the basics.) (Your grip is uncool.) (You can't do it without visuals.) |
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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.) |
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タメが しっかりしている！ 見えなくても できている！ |
(Your grip is firm!) (You can do it even without visuals!) |
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Weak hits. Work on your grip. |
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Eh. Passable. |
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Solid hitting. Nice grip! |
Epilogue
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| 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!) |
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| 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!) |
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| 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 |
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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 
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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.
Epilogue
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| うわつ、ダメだ〜！ | えい。 | やりましたー！！ |
| (Waa, no~!) | (Ei.) | (I did it!!) |
Air Batter 2P
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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.
Air Batter 2P
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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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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.
Development History
- Main article: Spaceball/Development
In Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 Japanese |
エアーバッター | Air Batter |
 EnglishNOA |
Spaceball | Pun on "space" and "baseball" |
 EnglishNOE |
Spaceball | |
 French |
Baseball de l'espace | Space baseball |
 Spanish |
Béisbol espacial | Space baseball |
 German |
Baseball im Weltall | Baseball in Space |
 Italian |
Spaceball | |
 Korean |
타자 | The Batter |
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