Original Backyard Baseball
It s the first of a long series of successful titles the last one of which was released in 2015.
Original backyard baseball. How backyard baseball became a cult classic. Backyard baseball geared towards kids 5 12 or older puts a cute face on america s all time favorite pastime baseball. Backyard baseball is a baseball game created by humongous entertainment and released for windows and macintosh in 1997.
This kid centric title from humongous features simple gameplay nice cartoony animations and plenty of bright colors to go with them. Pablo vicki dmitri kiesha tony ashley sidney and jorge were the only characters who appeared in every game of the series until the franchise reboot. There have been eleven different versions of the game.
On the beloved computer game s 20th anniversary its creators detail crafting a cast of fictional children pablo sanchez s rise to fame and. The original game that was released back in 1997 consisted of 30 neighborhood kids which the gamer could choose to play. The original game which we re covering here was released in 1997 and went on to launch a successful series that s still going strong today.
The original backyard baseball characters ranked. Backyard baseball is a series of baseball video 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. The idea of a videogame about kids playing baseball was developed by nick mirkovich illustrator and animator.
Players choose their favorite players create a team and play a. Unlike other baseball simulation video games that are designed for older players backyard baseball is suited for younger audiences and features power ups and other fun aspects that make the game more interesting. The invention of the kids is probably what took byb the furthest but not far behind it were the fields that were played on.
I m fairly certain i received my copy of backyard baseball in a box of wheaties. Abner was later replaced by jack fouler. Backyard baseball takes you back to when you were a kid when baseball was a game and the team was hastily put together among the kids in the neighborhood.
Backyard baseball is a timeless classic that i played when i was 10 i played during boring lectures in college and to this day i ll still bang out a season once a year or so.
