Super Beat Sports is a Rhythm Game by Harmonix, originally released for the Apple TV in 2015 and given an Updated Re-release for the Nintendo Switch in 2017. It consists of sports played with Amusing Aliens which task the players with hitting balls in time with the music. The sports are:
- Whacky Bat: Scored, 27 songs. Switch lanes and hit balls pitched by the aliens and Thro-bot.
- Net Ball: Scored, 15 songs. Maintain a rally by hitting the ball on your turn.
- Gobble Golf: Scored, 12 songs. Listen to a sequence and repeat it, hitting each ball to the correct island.
- Buddy Ball: Competitive, 4 songs. Hit the ball to an alien or item on your turn. Different aliens return the ball at different speeds. Last player to run out of hearts wins.
- Rhythm Racket (new to Switch version): Competitive, 3 songs. Pong-like game with many obstacles on the board and a ball that bounces to the music. Last player to run out of hearts wins.
The scored games feature 2-player Co-Op on the Switch version only, while the competitive games support up to four players on both versions.
Super Beat Sports provides examples of:
- 1-Up: The bonus round in Rhythm Racket awards a heart to the winner.
- Button Mashing: At the end of a round of Gobble Golf, all the unused balls are fed to an extra-hungry Nibbz for bonus points by mashing the buttons. The faster they're fed, the more bonus points that are earned.
- Character Customization: Players can choose their skin tone, bat, and headgear.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In the co-op modes, balls in Whacky Bat and aliens in Gobble Golf are marked red for Player 1 and blue for Player 2.
- Confusion Fu:
- In Whacky Bat, Thro-Bot pitches the ball in many confusing ways, especially on the Pro setting.
- In Buddy Ball, players can choose which alien to hit to, which decides the pace of the next player's ball.
- Co-Op Multiplayer: The Switch version allows two players to play together in Whacky Bat, Net Ball, and Gobble Golf.
- Difficulty Levels: The scored sports have Normal and Pro modes. Pro has more complicated sequences, faster music, and more lanes in the case of Whacky Bat. In the competitive sports, the computer players have Normal and Pro skill settings.
- Gameplay Grading: The scored sports award bronze, silver, gold, and platinum medals, depending on how many perfect hits and other hits are earned, and the longest hit streak.
- Musical Gameplay: In Rhythm Racket, the ball bounces off walls to the beat of the music.
- Poison Mushroom: Hitting the Bomb in Buddy Ball loses a heart.
- "Simon Says" Mini-Game: Downplayed in Gobble Golf which shows each sequence and then gives the player two chances to match everything in it. Each target lights up ahead of time during the player's turn, but having the sequence in mind ahead of time makes it easier.
