Oct 26, 2017 THE HARDEST BASEBALL GAME EVER! Backyard Sports Sandlot Sluggers In this baseball game I play some backyard sports sandlot sluggers gameplay, I realize how hard this game actually is.
| 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 |
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]
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]
- ^ abSchmidt, Eugene (April 24, 2019). 'Humongous Entertainment coming to consoles'. Barrelrolled. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
- ^ abFrech, 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]
- Official website (2007 archive on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
- Backyard Sports series at MobyGames
If you were born anywhere from 1993-1997, your first encounter with sports was through Backyard Sports video games. If they weren’t your first encounter with sports, then I feel bad for you and we probably wouldn’t get along.
List Of Backyard Sports Games
*Disclaimer* This list will not include Pablo Sanchez for two reasons: 1, he was the best in all of the sports and it would be too easy to include him and 2, he was a SUPER racist portrayal of Mexicans. Super short, tubby, not a lick of english, super fast, incredibly generic latino name. Honestly, the only thing that would have made it worse would have been a little sombrero instead of a backwards hat. So no Pablo. Anyway, here we go:
7. Lisa Crocket
Starting out the list we got one of the more overlooked players in all the games, my main girl Lisa Crocket. In Backyard basketball, soccer, hockey, and football, this girl was an absolute WALL on defense. Oh, you have the ball/puck and are trying to score? Sike, thats Lisa’s ball/puck now. In Backyard baseball, girl had light-tower power and could drop bombs with the best of them. Not to mention she did this with a nonchalant attitude and often voiced how much she didn’t want to be there. Raw strength, shitty attitude. Just how I like ’em.
6. Pete Wheeler
Pete has overcome a lot in his life: he is the product on incest, obviously has a learning disability, and definitely grew up in a trailer park. But none that of that stops Pete from being an absolute rocket on the field. Wheels like the late great Al Davis dreamt about, not to mention that he swung the stick pretty well in Backyard Baseball. In all Backyard games, if you needed a simpleton speedster, Pete was #1 on your list (and #1 in all of our hearts).
5. Dmitri Petrovich
“Oh, thats your girlfriend who I have my dick inside of right now? Oops. My bad.” – Dmitri PussySlayer Petrovich. Chubby. Red headed. Russian accent. Window glasses. Fully loaded shirt pocket. On top of all that, he was a pretty productive athlete. I know, I know. Some people get all the luck. Baseball? He had some unexpected pop and some wheels. Football? Tackling machine. Basketball? Well lets just say your girl wasn’t the only thing he made soppy wet. Not to mention he easily had the best trash talk in the game. Another under appreciated Backyard Kid, and an absolute casanova.
4. Annie Frazier
I normally hate hippy tree huggers, but I gotta give respect where respect is due. Far and away the most underrated Backyard Kid, Annie was a goddamn stud. She could flat out play. She RAKED in baseball, had velvety soft hands in football, she was a brick wall in goal in soccer, and as solid as solid gets in basketball. All this plus a super friendly demeanor and probably a great presence on the bench to counteract assholes like Tony Delvecchio.
3. Ernie Steele
Just cracking the top 3, we have the second most racist portrayal of a minority in the game, Ernie Steele. Aside from the speed aspect, Ernie Steele was probably one of the better offensive players across all the games. He could absolutely mash in baseball, and in football he could go up and make every catch. His best sport was basketball (right guys? cuz racism?), where he dominated the post like a young KG. Also, I don’t know if it was just me, but I felt like I could just kick it with Ernie when I was younger, ya know? Maybe I just wanted a black friend. I don’t know. He seemed likable and was good at sports. And he was black.
2. Keisha Phillips
The original bad bitch. You did NOT mess with Keisha. Huge. Sassy. Black. Female (some questions have been raised about this). I think the creators of the games created her as a player, then became too scared that she would come out of the game and beat them up if they made her bad at any sport. So in every single game she was fast and powerful. Every. Single. Sport. I don’t think I even need to go through all of them. Just imagine every sport, then imagine what it would be like for a bad bitch with a ton of strength and speed would be like playing them. Thats Keisha Phillips.
Best Backyard Sports Video Games Definition
1. Kenny Kawaguchi
“Wow, Rory. What a surprise. Give the nod to the handicapped kid. Standing O for Rory everyone, he cares about the disabled” – you, probably.
Best Backyard Sports Video Games Game
That is NOT why I picked him. Well, I guess it is kinda why I picked him. I picked Kenny as #1, because in all these sports, he is doing with pure upper body strength and absolutely no legs. He is wheeling around on those fields, scoring goals, making tackles, fielding grounders, and stealing balls. Was he the better than everyone he played with? No. But was he the best to ever do it from the seat of his pants? You’re goddamn right he was. You give this kid a fresh pair of legs, he is far and away the best Backyard Kid in all of the sports and its not even a question. He was middle of the road without the use of his legs. If he wasn’t bound to his chair prison, Kenny K would have dominated every single kid in the goddamn league. Lets also not overlook the amount of balls it took for a wheelchair bound kid to roll up on Keisha Phillips and the Backyard Crew and say “Whats up motherfuckers, heard y’all play sports or some shit” (100% how that went btw). Talk about breaking down barriers. I see your Jackie Robinsons and Michael Sams, and raise you Kenny MotherFucking Kawaguchi. Roll on Kenny, roll on.
Backyard Sports Kids
There you have it. Thats the list. If you don’t agree, you’re wrong and I’d like to see you take the time out of your day to make one.