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Available Platform: Windows

Backyard Baseball is a baseball game created by Humongous Entertainment and released for Windows and Macintosh in 1997.

Year1997
GenreSports
Rating

91/100 based on 4 Editorial reviews. Add your vote

PublisherHumongous Entertainment
DeveloperHumongous Entertainment
OS supportedWindows XP, 2000 & Windows 7, MacOS 10.6-10.14
Updated2 November 2019

Game Review

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 2003

If you haven't played Backyard Baseball 2003 or want to try this sports video game, download it now for free! Published in 2002 by Infogrames, Inc., Backyard Baseball 2003 is still a popular baseball title amongst retrogamers, with a whopping 4.3/5 rating.

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Comments and reviews

dan2021-05-070 point

i love this game

BiggDoug2021-04-230 point

Backyard Sports Pc Digital

My game keeps crashing midgame using scum. Any fixes? Pete will foul a bunt or something and he just stands there scratching his head forever.

roshuntus2020-12-071 point

I cant get downloader to launch! I allow access and everything and then it doesnt launch!

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EFQfr rgerg2020-11-140 point

Just use it on ScummVM if it wont work

Wyatt ford2020-11-10-1 point

Omg can you play on phone

Joey2020-11-03-2 points

Cant get the sound to work.
I'm able to get the older games to run fine, but this 2003 one is causing me trouble

troit2020-10-171 point

how do you change pitchers.

drAKE2020-10-08-4 points

what do you do after you download

im jeff hello2020-09-11-1 point

once i won a game 37 to 1

GAVIN TOMATO2020-05-131 point

this game raised me

Greg B2020-04-291 point

Anyone have any luck playing this on Mac? Using Scumm on Catalina

Daniel2020-04-140 point

can I play it on my macbook pro?

Nyeilatj2020-04-121 point

When i was younger I used to play this game with my grandmas best friends son. I spent so much time hanging out at this kids house just so i could play that game with him.

Swedish Fish2020-04-091 point

Nice Game on TIKTOK

Zachwright2020-01-273 points

Downloaded the game will not start

RE Putra2019-11-261 point

I love this game

john2019-11-031 point

I loved this game sence i was 7 years old

Bleeding Heart Show2019-07-161 point

So, good news: the game mostly works.
Bad news: the sound files are corrupted.

Clark2019-05-214 points

This game was my childhood! I played it all the time!

TUTUBAN SPORT2018-05-07-7 points

Excellent! By playing this game you can easily learn the rules of baseball.

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