Home Run Hero

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A 1980s batting-practice arcade. The pitcher throws white four-seams, purple curveballs that bend in flight, and gold fastballs that burn; swing with Space, click, or the on-screen SWING button when the pitch crosses the gold strike line. Timing decides everything: the narrow sweet spot is a 300-point home run, a wider window is extra bases for 200, and the rest of the line is a single for 100 — curveballs and fastballs carry a 25-point bonus for taking the pitch on its terms. The batter model winds up, the bat arcs, and the hit ball flies off into the stands. A pitch that sails past is a strike; three strikes is an out, and three outs ends the inning with a final score, run tally and best-hit screen, with a retry (Space or click). Pitch speed, curve frequency and ball mix all sharpen with difficulty. Floodlit night look: a dark stadium with three light towers, rows of hued crowd dots, a glowing warning track and infield diamond, foul lines, and a cyan batter in a blue helmet holding a maple bat.

▸ CARTRIDGE SLOT · HOME RUN HERO
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* THE GAME RUNS IN A SANDBOXED FRAME — IT CAN’T SEE THIS SITE OR YOUR OTHER TABS. BEST SCORES STAY IN THIS BROWSER.

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Build a tiny browser game called "Home Run Hero".

Game spec
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A 1980s batting-practice arcade. The pitcher throws white four-seams, purple curveballs that bend in flight, and gold fastballs that burn; swing with Space, click, or the on-screen SWING button when the pitch crosses the gold strike line. Timing decides everything: the narrow sweet spot is a 300-point home run, a wider window is extra bases for 200, and the rest of the line is a single for 100 — curveballs and fastballs carry a 25-point bonus for taking the pitch on its terms. The batter model winds up, the bat arcs, and the hit ball flies off into the stands. A pitch that sails past is a strike; three strikes is an out, and three outs ends the inning with a final score, run tally and best-hit screen, with a retry (Space or click). Pitch speed, curve frequency and ball mix all sharpen with difficulty. Floodlit night look: a dark stadium with three light towers, rows of hued crowd dots, a glowing warning track and infield diamond, foul lines, and a cyan batter in a blue helmet holding a maple bat.

Hard constraints — the game will be embedded in a sandboxed iframe on a static gallery site, and a headless browser will screenshot it:

1. Output exactly ONE self-contained HTML file. All CSS and JS inline. Zero external requests: no CDNs, no external fonts, images, or sounds, no fetch/XHR/WebSocket. Any sound must be synthesized with WebAudio.
2. The iframe sandbox is "allow-scripts allow-pointer-lock" (plus an autoplay permission). So: no localStorage, cookies, or indexedDB (opaque origin — access throws); no popups, window.open, or navigation; no access to the parent page; alert()/prompt()/confirm() are silently blocked.
3. The playfield must be visible within 800 ms of load — that is when the screenshot is taken. No dead white screen. If there is a start screen, make it visually rich.
4. Controls: keyboard AND mouse must both work, plus on-screen touch buttons for phones. Call preventDefault() on game keys (arrows, space) so the page never scrolls.
5. The view is 16:9 and must scale to fill the viewport with no overflow or scrollbars.
6. Show a visible score. If the genre has a losing state, show a game-over screen with a restart (button and a key). Idle/clicker games skip game over but still need clear numeric feedback.
7. If you track a score, report it to the arcade shell so the player's best is remembered between visits: on every score change, call parent.postMessage({ source: "ai-arcade", type: "score", score: <number> }, "*"). It is safe to call it no matter what the parent does with it.
8. Keep it tiny: aim for under 400 lines, 60 fps, no frameworks. That 400-line target does not apply to 3D games — true 3D (a camera and perspective-projected world) or pseudo-3D (projected road/track, depth-sorted sprites) — which need their own software renderer and typically land at 800–1400 lines. The rest of this constraint still binds every game: 60 fps, no frameworks, no external assets, and no padding to reach a length.
9. Difficulty: the arcade shell passes the player's chosen difficulty as a URL query parameter. Read it with new URLSearchParams(location.search).get("difficulty") — the value is "easy", "medium", or "hard" (missing or unknown means "medium"). Make the three levels meaningfully different — speed, lives, enemy pressure, reaction time, whatever fits the genre; clicker/idle games with no losing state use starting resources and upgrade cost curves instead. Show the active level in the HUD. Without the parameter the game must be fully playable at its default (medium) tuning.

Return only the complete HTML file, no commentary.