History VideoGame / RustysRealDealBaseball

* DevelopersForesight: The game fully expects you to progress the story by haggling down the prices of games, using various in-game items that can solve the myriad of issues in Rusty's personal life. Because of this, choosing to instead pay full price for a game without using any items brings up a special series of cutscenes in which Rusty receives the relevant items anyways from Pappy van Poodle, a mentor character who is otherwise unmentioned until the epilogue and who happens upon the items himself, giving them to Rusty either as gifts or because he has no need for them. This ensures that the main story is still able to progress as intended even if the player refuses to cooperate with it.

* CulturalTranslation: The ''title character'' himself was subject to this. In the original Japanese version, the main character is Inuji Darumeshi, who has a more stereotypically Asian appearance. He was replaced in the West by the titular Rusty Slugger, whose appearance is more in line with a Western-style anthropomorphic dog.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: It ''is'' possible to buy all ten games right away to breeze through the plot, and you'll even see an alternate plotline for doing so, but you'll also miss out on the change of saving up to $24 USD.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: It ''is'' possible to buy all ten games right away to breeze through the plot, and you'll even see an alternate plotline for doing so, but you'll also miss out on the change of saving up to $24USD.

''Rusty's Real Deal Baseball'' is a free-to-download game on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS eShop. It's notable as the first ever Creator/{{Nintendo}} game released to have {{microtransactions}}.

The story follows an anthropomorphic dog named Rusty, who owns a store called Rusty Slugger's Sport Shack. With a dysfunctional family life and struggles to sell his sporting equipment, he decides to start selling baseball-themed video games to renew his business and hopefully improve things at home as well.

To advance the story and unlock more games to play, the player must actually buy them from the eShop at a maximum of $4.00 each (totaling $40 plus tax, or $16 plus tax in a [[OneHundredPercentCompletion perfect run]]). Haggling comes into play, to reduce the price and earn discounts. The player can haggle down the prices by giving Rusty items that can help him set things right with his family.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: It ''is'' possible to buy all ten games right away to breeze through the plot, but you'll be out $24 more.

* DoYouWantToHaggle: An in-game mechanic when you haggle minigames for real money.

* GenderedOutfit: Some of the unlockable outfits appear differently based on a Mii's gender- for instance, the School Uniform appears as a varsity jacket on male Miis but a cheerleader outfit on female Miis.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Rusty and his donuts. So much so that feeding him one initiates the haggling sequence.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: In-universe. Rusty started selling video games because his baseball equipment wasn't selling well anymore. He figured: kids like video games, so if he wanted them to be interested in baseball again, he could get them interested in [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs baseball video games]].

''Rusty's Real Deal Baseball'' is a free-to-download game on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS eShop. It's notable as the first game Creator/{{Nintendo}} released to have {{Microtransactions}}.

* ButThouMust: Believe it or not, haggling for lower prices. It's subverted in that the game will ''eventually'' let you play full price for a game, with the story continuing on in a different way, but it takes a lot of effort to get to that point.
* ConfusionFu: In some challenges, the Ultra Machines may have a different animation while pitching, make the the baseballs invisible for a split second, suddenly throw them at speeds that would impress Sonic the Hedgehog, or toss BOMBS. And it only builds up from there...

To advance the story and unlock more games to play, the player must actually buy them from the eShop at $4.00 each (totaling $40 plus tax, or $16 plus tax in a [[OneHundredPercentCompletion perfect run]]). Haggling comes into play, to reduce the price and earn discounts. The player can haggle down the prices by giving Rusty items that can help him set things right with his family.

* NewGamePlus: An unintentional example. Because the game handles purchases through the Nintendo [=eShop=], players only have to pay for each of the games once. Should the player start the game again from square one, then no matter what the haggled price of an already purchased game is, the player will get it for free. On the other hand, this also means that if the player accepts a less-than-optimal price for a game the first time through, there's no chance for a refund.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Earning gold medals in the Home-Run Derby games in each title will unlock uniforms for your Mii to wear.

* NewGamePlus: An unintentional example. Because the game handles purchases through the Nintendo [=eShop=], this means players only have to pay for each of the games once. Should the player start the game again from square one, then no matter what the haggled price of an already purchased game is, the player will get it for free.

** At the beginning, Rusty gives the player a Nontendo 4DS, which he bought from "Nontendo". He insists it's not Nintendo, as he also had [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Romeo and Squeegee]] to fix his sink.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: "Bat Master", unlike the other games, is where you can create your own bat for hitting games. It lacks Challenges and Hi-Score Derby.

To advance the story and unlock more games to play, the player must actually buy them from the eShop at $4.00 each (totaling $40 plus tax, or $16 plus tax in a [[OneHundredPercentCompletion perfect run]]). Haggling comes into play, to reduce the price and earn discounts. They player can haggle down the prices by giving Rusty items that can help him set things right with his family.

''Rusty's Real Deal Baseball'' is a free-to-download game on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS eShop. However, to advance the story and unlock more games to play, the player must actually buy them from the eShop at $4.00 each (totaling $40 plus tax, or $16 plus tax in a [[OneHundredPercentCompletion perfect run]]). Haggling comes into play, to reduce the price and earn discounts.

* ButThouMust: Believe it or not, haggling for lower prices. It's subverted in that the game will ''eventually'' let you play full price for the game, with the story continuing on in a different way, but it takes a lot of effort to get to that point.