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Backyard Sports
Genre(s)	Sports
Developer(s)	Humongous Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Android, Game Boy
First release	Backyard Baseball 1997
Latest release	Backyard Sports: Baseball 2015 and Backyard Sports: Basketball 2015 2015

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Backyard Sports (originally branded as Junior Sports)^[1]^[2] is a series of video games released for consoles and computers. The series is best known for starring kid-sized versions of popular professional sports stars, such as Albert Pujols, Paul Pierce, Barry Bonds, Tim Duncan, Clint Mathis, Kevin Garnett, Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Joe Thornton and Andy Macdonald. The Backyard Sports series is licensed by the leading professional U.S. sports leagues: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and Major League Soccer (MLS).

The series includes Backyard Baseball, Backyard Basketball, Backyard Football (American football), Backyard Soccer, Backyard Hockey (Ice hockey), and Backyard Skateboarding. In the games, players form a team consisting of Backyard Kids and pro players, which they take through a 'Backyard League' season, attempting to become the champions. Players can create their own athletes, starting in Backyard Football (1999). Another aspect of the games is the use of Power-Ups, allowing players to gain 'super-abilities'. For instance, 'Super Dunk' allows a basketball player to make an incredible dunk from nearly anywhere on the court, 'Leap Frog' allows a football player to jump over the entire defensive line, and 'Ice Cream Truck' causes the other team to be completely distracted for a brief period of time.

Some of these games are playable with the ScummVM emulator.^[3]

History[edit]

The series began in late 1997, when Humongous Entertainment created their first game, Backyard Baseball. Humongous Entertainment was owned by GT Interactive. Later Infogrames bought the company, and along with it came all of the game titles. Infogrames allowed Humongous Entertainment to expand the series, and they developed more titles such as Backyard Soccer, Backyard Hockey, Backyard Skateboarding, Backyard Basketball and Backyard Football.^[4] Following the buyout by Infogrames these titles from the Backyard series have seen releases for game consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and Wii.

On July 24, 2013, Epic Gear bought the Backyard Sports franchise from the Atari bankruptcy proceedings.^[5]

On December 11, 2014, Day 6 Sports Group announced the relaunch of the Backyard Sports series with Backyard Sports NBA Basketball for smartphones and tablets, with Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry as the cover athlete.

On April 19, 2019, Humongous Entertainment tweeted an image of the original Junior Sports logo, hinting at a possible re-release of the original games and/or the developer having re-secured the rights to the series proper.^[6]^[1]^[2]

Backyard Sports Games Wiki

Film[edit]

In 2016, it was reported that Cross Creek Pictures and Crystal City Entertainment were developing a film based on Backyard Sports with Brian Oliver and Ari Daniel Pinchot producing.^[7]

References[edit]

^ ^a^bSchmidt, Eugene (April 24, 2019). 'Humongous Entertainment coming to consoles'. Barrelrolled. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
^ ^a^bFrech, Ricky (April 24, 2019). 'Humongous Entertainment is Bringing Their Collection of 90s Classics to Consoles'. DualShockers. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
^http://gamesdbase.com/list.aspx?in=1&searchtext=backyard&searchtype=1
^'Backyard Sports - Backyard Basketball and Backyard Football'. Barcodespider.com.
^http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130724006402/en/Evergreen-Group-Agreed-Acquire-Backyard-Sports-Video/
^Humongous [@HumongousEnt] (April 19, 2019). '[Image-only tweet; image shows a red exclamation point on a transparent background overlaid with the words 'It's Junior Sports' in blue.]' (Tweet). Retrieved May 17, 2019 – via Twitter.
^Fleming Jr, Mike (March 30, 2016). ''Backyard Sports' Video Game In Movie Deal With Cross Creek & Crystal City'. Deadline.

External links[edit]

Backyard Football Game Unblocked

Official website (2007 archive on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
Backyard Sports series at MobyGames

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Backyard_Sports&oldid=945215019'

Backyard Baseball is a game for people across all ages. In the game, the players take a managerial position by making a team consisting of different players that have to play against opponents. There are different exhibition games that a player can choose from and the versions vary from a 32, 16 or a 14 game season. Backyard Baseball playoff are other aspects of the game and these contain the National League and American League. The Baseball World Series is the highest league that a player can chose to play in. It is also important to note that the game has some playable modes such as Spectator, Single Practice, Batting Practice and Single Game. Backyard Baseball also has some power-ups that appear as the game proceeds. The power-ups boost the performance and often appear after you strike out an opponent or when you make a “Crazy Pitch”. These pitches consume a lot of energy and the power-ups work to boost the power lost in making the pitches. After making consecutive “Crazy Pitches”, you get bonus power-ups and you can store the energy and use it later at a time the need arises.
There are different types of power-ups that you can get when playing Backyard Baseball but the major two categories are Batting power-ups and Pitching power-ups. The Batting power-up contain various features such as the Sonic Boom which enables you to hit opposing players with a powerful shockwave. Another feature of the Batting power-up is the lightning bat that creates tremendous power after connecting with the ball. The rubber bat is another feature where the batter bounces the ball extremely high in the air and you as a player will have the opportunity to get to base before anyone catches the ball. The pitching power-ups category contains features such as slow Motion (SLO MO) which has the ball moving in a very slow speed before getting to the strike zone. The fireball is another feature present and here the ball moves so fast that it can create a hole in the catcher’s glove.