Backyard Baseball Macbook Pro

Backyard Baseball. Backyard Baseball is a free online sports game with charming characters and fun challenges. You pick a team and players to compete against others on the field, like in Pablo's backyard. Try to hit a homerun, don't strike out and score enough points each round to move on to the next level.

How To Play Backyard Baseball On Macbook Pro
Backyard Baseball Macbook Pro Case

How To Play Backyard Baseball On Macbook Pro

Available Platform: Windows

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

Year	1997
Genre	Sports
Rating	91/100 based on 4 editorial reviews. Add your vote
Publisher	Humongous Entertainment
Developer	Humongous Entertainment
OS supported	Windows XP, 2000 & Windows 7, MacOS 10.6-10.14
Updated	2 November 2019
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Game Review

Backyard Baseball 2005 features some of the greatest pros, as children, playing along with a sandlot lineup of boys and girls called the 30 Backyard Kids. Along with Sosa and Bonds you can take the playground field with Randy Johnson, Mike Piazza, Shawn Green, Ichiro Suzuki, Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and more.
Backyard Baseball 2001 was the first Backyard Baseball game that I got back in 2000 and it is where Backyard Baseball had my beginnings. My Giants team on here has everybody except Ichiro, first of the Big Three. Instead, Chipper Jones plays like on Backyard Baseball 2009.

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, 5:13 pm