Backyard Baseball (and Softball) School is a complete 6-week program, designed to help kids learn and master the fundamentals of the game - from the comfort of their own backyard, driveway or living room. Backyard Baseball is a free online sports game with charming characters and fun challenges. You pick a team and players to compete against others on the field, like in Pablo's backyard. Try to hit a homerun, don't strike out and score enough points each round to move on to the next level. Don't disappoint your team! Backyard Baseball is a sports game for computer systems, released in 1997. It is the first installment edition in the Backyard Baseball series, and the first game published as a part of the Backyard Sports (then called 'Junior Sports') series overall.
Available Platform: Windows
Backyard Baseball is a baseball game created by Humongous Entertainment and released for Windows and Macintosh in 1997.
| Year | 1997 |
| Genre | Sports |
| Rating | 91/100 based on 4 Editorial reviews. Add your vote |
| Publisher | Humongous Entertainment |
| Developer | Humongous Entertainment |
| OS supported | Windows XP, 2000 & Windows 7, MacOS 10.6-10.14 |
| Updated | 2 November 2019 |
Game Review
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Backyard Baseball is a baseball game created by Humongous Entertainment and released for Windows and Macintosh in 1997.
It's the first of a long series of successful titles, the last one of which was released in 2015.
The idea of a videogame about kids playing baseball was developed by Nick Mirkovich, illustrator and animator. He presented the concept to the legendary Ron Gilbert (not only the creator of Maniac Mansion but also the founder of Humongous), and after a while, he approved. The design team was made of Mirkovich, Richard Moe (a programmer), and Mark Peyser (a graphic designer).
The game created by the trio was brilliant and totally unique. High-quality hand-drawn cartoon graphics, fluid animations, excellent gameplay, and, most importantly, a fantastic character design. The baseball players, 30 kids, were designed with their own look&feel and personality. Vaguely inspired to the Peanuts, they are also a great example of diversity: 15 boys, 15 girls, all in different sizes, colors, and races.
Somehow the kids remind me of movies such as The Bad News Bears (an amazing 1976 movie with Walter Matthau), and 'The sandlot', except that in the game, there are many more girls :)
Anyway, the kids in Backyard Baseball are so cute it's impossible not to fall in love with them. For each one of them, composer Rhett Mathis created a specific theme song. This was probably one of the most memorable elements of this game.
As you could expect from a sports sim, there are also top players. In this case, the real star is a short kid called Pablo Sanchez. Even if he looks like the worst player, he is the greatest one, and everybody loved him. Believe it or not, Pablo Sanchez is one of the most beloved videogames characters ever created.
Curiously, Backyard Baseball was developed using the SCUMM game engine, the same used in many graphics adventure. It's a great example of the flexibility of the engine invented by Ron Gilbert. Apparently, creating a sports sim was totally possible. The basic mechanic is indeed quite simple. Still, the game supports different fields, tournaments, different stats for the players, and even a sort of Mario Kart-style power-ups.
Backyard Baseball is simply one of the most popular videogames ever created. So what are you waiting for? Download and play it!
Review by: Manu
Published: 3 November 2019 9:13 pm
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Description of Backyard Baseball 2001
Backyard Baseball 2001, a really nice sports game sold in 2000 for Windows, is available and ready to be played again! Time to play a baseball and licensed title video game title.
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Comments and reviews
s2021-02-111 point
this game is pog
Athletic Gamer #762021-02-101 point
Pc games for kids need to make a comeback. Like the Backyard sports franchise.
Mr.PIKASSO7182021-02-011 point
ScummmmVg or whatever its called seems to be a good emulator
Henry Erreger2020-12-010 point
It doesnt work on chrome books that is for sure
hi2020-10-20-1 point
can you download this on a chrome book?
goat2020-09-220 point
Backyard baseball is fun
masonrob2020-08-160 point
hopefully this works
kk2020-08-044 points
is it real or fake?
hjhjhjjhh2020-06-29-1 point
when you download it you have to download scrumtv to launch it and play it
dgdgd2020-05-29-5 points
how do u play the game once u downloaded it?
cooboy762020-04-20-39 points
any of you retards figure it out (not retarted myself lol)
Duck2020-04-140 point
how do i get it to open so i can play
ADP19572019-12-246 points
Grew up with it
anon2018-10-26-2 points
Once download, which emulator do i need to play this on my macbook pro? I'm new to all this.
loukaaa2018-06-19-2 points
gooddd
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