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Backyard Baseball is a highly acclaimed series of kid's video games for the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube and the PC. Currently all the games in the series have been developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It is one of six Backyard Sports games. The original game consisted of 30 neighborhood kids. But over the years, the idea of "Pro players as kids" became popular, and the original stats/look of the players changed. Managers can not create players, but they can choose from among a roster of characters to form
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Part of the Humongous Sports series, Backyard Baseball 2001 is a customizable sports title featuring the Backyard Kids, as well a few smaller versions of Major League pros. Children can select from 30 Major League Baseball teams and compile their rosters any way they choose. Kid versions of Randy Johnson, Ivan Rodriguez, Mo Vaughn, and Cal Ripken, Jr. are just a few of the choices available to comprise a team. Players are then given the option to play a single game or start a series.
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Backyard Baseball recreates the days of playing summer league baseball on the neighborhood grassy lot. Choose from over thirty neighborhood kids to create your team. Players each have their own strengths and weaknesses as well as quirky personalities that add hysterical hijinks to the game. Once youÆve selected your team, take them to batting practice to help learn batting and pitching controls. When youÆre ready, you can play pickup games or start league play and work your team through the season to the pennant. Each game includes two announcers, Sunny Day and Vinnie the Gooch, to call the games play by play.
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Backyard Baseball, the series combining playground atmosphere along with real players and teams, continues on computer platforms with the release of Backyard Baseball 2004. The twist is that the "real" players in the game appear as children along with the rest of the sandlot lineup. Featured pros include Sammy Sosa, Randy Johnson, Mike Piazza, Shawn Green, Barry Bonds, Ichiro Suzuki, Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and more. They'll compete along with 30 Backyard Kids, a combination of girls and boys, in thefollowing three modes of play: Single Game, Season Play, and Batting Pract ice. ESRB Rating: Everyone
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Backyard Baseball 07 blends simplicity with velocity. Whether you're playing a full-length game or one that's been cut, the experience is not one of time and patience – it's one of quick thinking and on-the-fly strategizing. Players are only limited by the speed at which they choose to move. Most animations are short, and any that go beyond a couple of seconds (ex: scoring a homerun triggers a replay) can be skipped by pressing the X button.
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In Backyard Baseball 2003, if you hit the spacebar and click on options, you can make it so that commentary appears written at the top of the screen. Sunny Day is pink, Vinnie the Gooch is green, and a player is yellow.
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