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Backyard Baseball | |
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Genre(s) | Sports |
Developer(s) | Humongous Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Humongous Entertainment Infogrames Atari The Evergreen Group |
Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Macintosh |
First release | Backyard Baseball October 10, 1997 |
Latest release | Backyard Sports: Baseball 2015 |
Backyard Baseball is a series of baseballvideo games for children which was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It was first released in October 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Later games were featured on Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, and iOS. It is part of the Backyard Sports series. There have been eleven different versions of the game since 1997. Some of the game titles that were created include Backyard Baseball, Backyard Baseball 2001-2010, and Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers.
The original game consisted of 30 neighborhood kids from which the gamer could choose to play.[1] Over the years, the idea of 'Pro players as kids' became popular, and the original statistics and looks of the players changed. Some of the professional players that were available included Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ichiro Suzuki, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome, Albert Pujols, Nomar Garciaparra, Ken Griffey Jr., and Barry Bonds. As the game progresses, there are some professionals that become available or 'unlockable' including Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, and Mike Piazza.
In Backyard Baseball, players take a managerial role by creating a team of different players to compete against opponents. In the different installments, a player could play an exhibition game or a 14, 16 or 32 game season (different versions vary) followed by the 'Backyard Baseball League' playoffs, which contains the American League and National League divisional series, the AL and NL championship series and finally the 'Backyard Baseball World Series'. Series games will vary per game.
This game has various playable modes, they include: Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game.
In 2013, The Evergreen Group acquired the intellectual property from Atari.
Pablo Sanchez, one of the fictional playable characters in the game, has been regarded as the strongest character in video game history.[2][3][4]
The game has also been noted for its diversity (gender, race) of characters, both in ratio of white to non-white and male to female, as well as skill level and the distribution of the best characters.[5]
In Backyard Baseball 2001, the Backyard kids are joined by 31 MLB pro players, many of which were all-stars during the 1999 Major League Baseball All Star Game. Eventual Hall of Fame players featured include Barry Larkin, Vladimir Guerrero, Jeff Bagwell, Larry Walker, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter, Mike Piazza, Tony Gwynn, Ken Griffey Jr., Cal Ripken Jr., Ivan Rodriguez, and Randy Johnson, who are all playable characters to choose from.
Several of these players would be featured in multiple releases including Nomar Garciaparra, Derek Jeter, and Alex Rodriguez.
Sometimes accompanying the four standard batting modes (Power, Line Drive, Grounder and Bunt), some beneficial power-ups appear. In the original Backyard Baseball, these batting power-ups appeared when the player got a hit when the computer used a 'crazy pitch' (see below). Starting from Backyard Baseball 2001, the power ups were awarded after a hit off a 'crazy pitch' and when the player turned a double play or triple play on defense. In addition to these batting power-ups, pitching power-ups, or 'crazy pitches,' also progressively appear, though they are much more frequent and in number, occurring whenever the player strikes an opponent out. These pitches consume much more energy and causes the strike zone to expand, so most of the pitches given are never used consecutively. In addition to the 'crazy pitches,' a strikeout may also award the player 'More Juice,' a full energy recharge for the pitcher that can be used when the player sees fit to use it.
Backyard Baseball 2001
Batting Power-Ups
Pitching Power-Ups
Backyard Baseball 2005
Batting Power-Ups
Pitching Power-Ups
Title | Year | Platforms | Cover Athlete |
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Backyard Baseball | October 24, 1997 | Macintosh, Microsoft Windows | Original Characters |
Backyard Baseball 2001 | May 19, 2000 | Macintosh, Microsoft Windows | Cal Ripken Jr. |
Backyard Baseball | 2002 | Game Boy Advance | Mike Piazza |
Backyard Baseball 2003 | 2002 | Macintosh, Microsoft Windows | |
Backyard Baseball | 2003 | Nintendo GameCube | Alex Rodriguez |
Backyard Baseball | 2004 | PlayStation 2 | |
Backyard Baseball 2005 | 2004 | Microsoft Windows | |
Backyard Baseball 2006 | 2005 | Game Boy Advance | |
Backyard Sports: Baseball 2007 | 2006 | Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows | Albert Pujols |
Backyard Baseball 09 | 2008 | Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2, Windows | David Ortiz |
Backyard Baseball 10 | 2009 | Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2 | |
Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers | 2010 | Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows | Original Characters |
Backyard Sports: Baseball 2015 | 2015 | iOS, Android published by Fingerprint Network |
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