Mar 25, 2005 Create your own team by picking players from the Backyard Kids and kid versions of real professional players. Direct all the action, call the plays, and track your stats. Play in single games or compete for a whole season's worth of fun. It's easy to learn and great to play! Backyard Baseball is a fun sports management simulation video game that allow you to customize your baseball player. Compete in an all-out local baseball tournament. Features power-ups, and other fun aspects that make the game more interesting.
Inspired by an article by Zach Kram at the Ringer last year, Bobby and Alex take a deep dive into the history of 'Backyard Baseball,' the kids-video-game-turned-cult-classic that they grew up with. They bring on Nick Mirkovich, one of the game's co-creators, to talk about the game's inception and its evolution through the years, and speculate on why the game remains so firmly embedded in the minds of this generation. They dive into the colorful personalities of each character and reminisce on what made the game so special in the first place. It's a full-on nostalgia sesh, featuring real gameplay and cameos from Sunny Day, Vinnie the Gooch, and the one and only Pablo Sanchez.
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Do you want to play the game too and get all the memories rushing back? Here's how!
On a Mac:
1.Download the video game emulator ScummVM.
2. Open the DMG file and drag ScummVM into your Applications folder.
3. Download Backyard Baseball 2001 here.
4. Once the ZIP file has downloaded, double click to open it. It will reveal an ISO file called Backyard Baseball 2001.
5. Double click to open the ISO file. It should open a drive that looks like this.
6. Create a new folder on your desktop (or wherever you will remember) and call it Backyard Baseball.
7. Select all the contents of the ISO drive and drag them into the folder you just created.
8. Now, open up ScummVM and click 'Add Game' on the right hand side. Find the folder you created and click 'Choose.'
9. You should see a screen like the one below. Press ok, select the game, and press start!
On a PC:
1.Download the video game emulator ScummVM.
2. Save to your desktop, or wherever is convenient for you.
3. Download Backyard Baseball 2001 here.
4. Double click to open the zip file. It should open a folder called Backyard Baseball 2001 (Windows).
5. Open ScummVM and click 'Add Game.' Navigate to find the Backyard Baseball folder and click 'Choose.'
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6. You should see a screen like the one below. Press ok, select the game, and press start!
Enjoy!
All music sound clips, and photos from 'Backyard Baseball,' courtesy of Humongous Entertainment/The Evergreen Group.
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Genre: Childrens, Sports Release Year: 1997 Developer: Humongous Entertainment Publisher: Humongous Entertainment Age Rating: Everyone Playability Status: Perfect Tested On: Windows 10 x64 Availability: Copyright retained - Out of print/unavailable
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Baseball is a hugely popular sport in many countries, including the USA and Japan. Here in the UK however, it never really caught on. In school, we play a similar game called 'Rounders', which is frankly a stupid name well worthy of ridicule. There have been lots of computer simulations of Baseball, but Backyard Baseball is specifically aimed at children. In the game, the player will need to pick and manage his or her team of neighborhood kids and take them up all the way to the Backyard Baseball World Series. 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.
Installing and playing
The original Backyard Baseball is a 16 bit game which means it cannot run natively on more modern versions of Windows. You could install a Windows XP virtual machine and play the game there. Rather than doing that however, you may wish to use ScummVM instead. ScummVM is a special program that helps older adventure games to run. Now, you're probably thinking 'a baseball simulator doesn't sound much like an adventure game', but remember this is a children's baseball game and so has a few similarities to a point and click adventure game. Because of this, it's supported by ScummVM and easy to run on modern machines.
To run the game with ScummVM, simply copy the entire contents of the games CD-ROM to a convenient location on your PC, then point ScummVM to the folder. There's a comprehensive tutorial here that takes you through all the steps in detail.
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There are no CD audio tracks to copy, so once the CD is copied and ScummVM is configured and options set to taste, you're good to go.
