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Video game series
Backyard Sports
Series Logo
Genre(s)
Sports
Developer(s)
Humongous Entertainment (1997–2005)
Day6 Sports Group (2015)
Publisher(s)
Humongous Entertainment
Infogrames
Atari
The Evergreen Group
Day6 Sports Group
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 video game series released for consoles, computers, and mobile devices. 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 major 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 (association football), 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 of their chosen sport. Gamers can "Create-A-Player", starting in Backyard Football (1999). An additional 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 a 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 distracted for a brief period.
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BackyardSports (originally branded as Junior Sports) is a video game series released for consoles, computers, and mobile devices. The series is best known...
Atari, and The Evergreen Group. It is one of several sub-series in the BackyardSports series, and is the first to feature professional players as kids, examples...
BackyardSports series. There have been eleven different versions of the game since 1997. Some of the game titles that were created include Backyard Baseball...
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sortable list of American football sports video games. Arena Football Backyard Football Joe Montana Football Madden NFL EA Sports College Football NCAA Gamebreaker...
gameplay modes except the story mode. He appeared as a kid in the BackyardSports game, Backyard Skateboarding. In 1986, Hawk was a featured skateboarder and...
BackyardSports: Sandlot Sluggers Microsoft Windows May 25, 2010 HB Studios Haunted House Microsoft Windows September 28, 2010 ImaginEngine Backyard Sports:...
designer and director. His races include the Barkley Marathons, Big's Backyard Ultra, the Barkley Fall Classic, Vol State 500K, A Race for the Ages, the...
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in the original Backyard Basketball, alongside Kevin Garnett. She was only the fourth female professional athlete in the BackyardSports series, after soccer...
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multi-project deal with EA Canada in 2004 to continue developing sports games for the EA Sports label, including further games in the Rugby and Cricket series...
original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-06-05. "Hudson Entertainment: Deca Sports 3". Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. "Span Smasher". Nintendo of...
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2002 Go-Gurt 2002 Fruit Roll-Ups 2002 Sylvan Learning Center 2002 BackyardSports 2002 Hey Arnold!: The Movie 2003 Anti-drug public service announcement...
– four bases (no base-running) Cricket – two creases 100-ball cricket Backyard, Beach and Street cricket Blind cricket Club cricket Deaf cricket First-class...
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