Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby

Later, an English translation became available at disney.com. The player controls Disney's Winnie the Pooh as a batter in a home run derby contest. Pooh steps up to the plate against eight characters from the Winnie the Pooh franchise as pitchers, culminating in the final boss: Christopher Robin. The player advances by hitting a certain number of balls thrown by each pitcher past the outer bounds of the field. In 2012 and 2013, the game became a viral phenomenon hit because of its extreme difficulty, especially considering its target audience of young children.

• Title — Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby • Developer — Walt Disney Japan • Publisher — * Walt Disney Japan • Yahoo! Kids (Japan) • Disney.com • Series — Winnie the Pooh • Engine — Adobe Flash • Platforms — Browser • Windows 2000 SP3+ or later • Mac OS X Tiger or later • Genre — Sports game • Modes — Single-player

The game plays as a typical home run derby, where most aspects of baseball are stripped away in favor of the simple aspect of being pitched baseballs with the goal of hitting home runs. The player controls Winnie the Pooh, using the computer mouse to position him and his baseball bat, and clicking to swing the bat. The game contains eight stages, each with a different Winnie the Pooh series character pitching the ball, each with different type of ways to throw the ball and increasing difficulty. The goal of the game is to hit the target number of home runs in each round. Points are earned for performance, and may be used to purchase upgrades for their speed (which allows the player to move towards the ball more quickly), contact (which makes it easier and more forgiving for the player to hit the ball) and strength (which sends the ball further when hit) as they earn points throughout the stages.

Walt Disney Japan developed Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby in Adobe Flash. The game first appeared online at the site DisneyGames.jp at some point no later than December 20, 2007. The game was also published online in 2008 at Yahoo! Kids, a web portal of Yahoo! Japan, and an English translation later became available at disney.com. In light of Adobe Inc.'s discontinuation of Flash Player, the game was removed from its original home at Yahoo! Kids on December 16, 2020.