History VideoGame / WinnieThePoohsHomeRunDerby

* DummiedOut: There are unused graphics for the words "Double", "Triple", and "Out", suggesting the game was intended to be a standard baseball game rather than a homerun-oriented one.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: At the very least, all stages stay available upon unlocking, allowing you to challenge the same characters you lost to right away. Its the only break you'll be getting in this game.
* ArtStyleDissonance: It's a cartoony Winnie-The-Pooh game. [[TemptingFate How hard could it possibly be?]]

* CantDropTheHero: Pooh Bear is the only character you can actually play as. The rest are pitchers you must hit a number of home runs off of. Except Gopher, as stated above.
* ConfusionFu: Unpredictability is the mighty Christopher Robin's secret weapon.

* InexplicablyAwesome: No explanation is given for why half the Winnie the Pooh cast can pitch baseballs in bizarre ways.

* RealityIsOutToLunch: The pitches get really weird on the later stages. ''Really'' weird.
* RealityWarper: Everyone from Kanga to Christopher Robin. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmSyvHus1SE It has to be seen to be believed]].
* SerialEscalation: Each opponent is more difficult than the previous, with more and more difficult pitch patterns and styles, reaching yet again and again a new high in unfairness, until they [[RealityWarper transcend any and all rules of physics and logic]].
* SugarBowl: Well, a sugar bowl with horribly difficult baseball games...

** Piglet might not have the erratic pitches of the latter opponents, but he throws his balls much faster than Eeyore or Lumpy do, marking the first DifficultySpike of the game.

The brutal difficulty, thanks to the Internet, has lead to the common interpretation that all of the pitchers [[MemeticBadass are either sadistic assholes or supernatural beings comprised of pure evil]]. This is especially true with the final pitcher, Christopher Robin himself.

* AlwaysNight: Inverted. Night just never falls, not even as a challenge.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: You wouldn't expect stuffed cartoon animals to have superhuman pitching skills.

* FromBadToWorse: Happens each time you defeat an opponent and move on to the next one.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Pooh's friends may not have [[FaceHeelTurn become villains]], but their stages are '''sadistically''' hard to clear. Especially Christopher Robin.

* RealityWarper: Everyone from Kanga to Christopher Robin. And this isn't just our RunningGag either, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmSyvHus1SE it has to be seen to be believed]].

* TerribleTrio: Rabbit, Owl, and Christopher Robin.
* TimeMaster: Rabbit can control the flow of time, making it a lot harder to anticipate the timing.

* DifficultySpike: The first three stages are fairly straightforward. It's when you get to Kanga when the [[RealityWarper erratic ball movements]] begin. And it [[FromBadToWorse only gets worse]] from there.

* DummiedOut: There are graphics for the words "Double", "Triple", and "Out", suggesting the game was intended to be a standard baseball game rather than a homerun-oriented one.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: At the very least, the game allows you to challenge the same characters you lost to right away instead of having to unlock them all over again.

The brutal difficulty, thanks to the Internet, has lead to the common interpretation that all of the pitchers are either sadistic assholes or supernatural beings comprised of pure evil. This is especially true with the final pitcher, Christopher Robin himself.

* DifficultyByRegion: In response to how everyone got angry at how hard the original game was, the English version was made easier to alleviate it. The internet was neither grateful nor amused, and anyone they see playing the English version is considered a [[EasyModeMockery a wuss]] (a la ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'').

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On July 04, 2019, it was announced that the flash game will be officially discontinued in December 2020.

* NintendoHard: And how! It starts off really easy, but quickly escalates to a level reached only by few games in existence. What, you thought a game about Winnie The Pooh would be easy?

* DifficultyByRegion: In response to how everyone got angry at how hard the original game was, the English version was made easier to alleviate it. The internet was neither grateful nor amused, and anyone they see playing the English version is considered either a [[EasyModeMockery a wuss]] (a la ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'') or [[InternetBackdraft suicidal]].

Find the game [[http://disney.kids.yahoo.co.jp/game/pooh.html here]]. An English translated version can be found [[http://www.flashrelax.com/play-Winnie-The-Pooh-s-Home-Run-Derby.html here]]. Disney also released the official English version [[http://games.disney.com/winnie-the-pooh-home-run-derby here]].

* {{Nerf}}: In response to how everyone got angry at how hard the original game was, the English version was made easier to alleviate it. The internet was neither grateful nor amused, and anyone they see playing the English version, is either [[EasyModeMockery a wuss]] (a la ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'') or [[InternetBackdraft suicidal]].

[[AC: [[DarthWiki/WinnieThePoohsHomeRunDerby Run. Run while you still can.]]]]

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* [[AlwaysNight Always Day]]: Night just never falls, not even as a challenge.

* {{Nerf}}: In response to how everyone got angry at how hard the original game was, the English version was made easier to alleviate it. The internet was neither grateful nor amused, and anyone they see playing the English version, is either [[EasyModeMockery a wuss]] (a la ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' or [[InternetBackdraft suicidal]].

* AlwaysNight: Inverted.

%%* TheHero: Franchise/WinnieThePooh

* [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Not So Harmless Villains]]: Pooh's friends aren't exactly "villains", but they make this game ''sadistically'' hard.

* ArtStyleDissonance: It's a cartoony Winnie-The-Pooh game. How hard could it possibly be?

%%* TheHero: WinnieThePooh

* SurpriseDifficulty: It looks like a cute little kids' game with Winnie-The-Pooh and his friends. ''Looks'' like.

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: With baseballs, not bullets. Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way, with Rabbit's pitches moving slowly ''and then speeding up'', and Owl's pitches moving in a zigzagging manner. And yet, even they has nothing on Tigger's pitches, which in midflight ''become invisible.''

** FinalExamBoss: He uses ball patterns taken from the previous bosses.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Kanga and Roo are the first to throw physics-bending pitches, unlike the first three opponents who throw simple fastballs.

** Piglet might not have the erratic pitches of the latter opponents but he throws his balls much faster than Eeyore or Lumpy do marking the first DifficultySpike of the game.