Backyard Baseball is an online GBA game that you can play at Emulator Online. This free Game Boy Advance game is the United States of America region version for the USA. Backyard Baseball is a single title from the many sports games, arcade games and baseball games offered for this console.
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Backyard Baseball
Ever since Abner Doubleday created the glorious game of baseball, it has reached the hearts of millions of adults and children yearning for excitement. In the game Backyard Baseball, the creators at Humongous Entertainment have combined pickup games that happen in towns and the Major Leagues to 'marry' them together into one amazing game. The game consists of many of the game's best pros back in 2001 and 2002, including the 'great' Barry Bonds, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and Albert Pujols. In the game, you have the option to choose what field to play on, teams (including all thirty Major League teams), difficulty level, and who you play with. For example, I could be the Chicago Cubs and have the team of Derek Jeter, Frank Robinson, Albert Pujols, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, Ichiro Suzuki, Jimmy Rollins, Mike Piazza (who is on the cover), and Randy Johnson. The mixture of being able to have the players you know and love and the kids in the Backyard series make for the most excellent combination of a game. There are five modes to the Backyard Baseball game. There is Quick Game, Home Run Derby, Single Game (different from quick game in the way you can draft and choose settings), Season Mode, and Multiplayer, which is not compatible on Vizzed. Each mode provides you something different that will keep you interested in the game for a long time.
Graphics 5: This is the main flaw of the game. Even though this game was released in 2002, the game still has that pixel-like look. It is very distracting sometimes to look at the game when you are either pitching or batting and notice how the pixels stand out very much unlike other games. Also, I feel as if some of the players look a little odd, such as how one player looks like her head resembles an eggplant.
Sound 9: The sounds in this game, with the exception of one, are very well made. I enjoyed listening to the different sounds and how the sounds varied when certain things happened. The only problem with the sound, though, is that there is one girl who yells the same thing every time no matter what happens. It was enough to tick me off and put it in this review.
Addictiveness 10: With all of the game modes and player combinations you can choose, it was hard to put the game down and play another. I will likely go back and play this game again until I have done everything with every single character. That is how addictive the game is to me.
Story Omitted: There is no main 'story', so the story section is invalid to this review.
Depth 10: Like I said earlier, this game has five different game modes and many characters to choose from. Also, since the game has the Single Game option, the game will never end.
Difficulty 7: It took me a while to get used to the timing of the game, but when things seemed to start to click, I had a blast. You will always be challenged by this game unless you play on too low of a difficulty, in that case you should boost your difficulty and change your settings. This is not the hardest game in the world, but is very fun and challenging to play.
Overall, this game receives the score of an 8.2. This game offers the ability to play as the pros in a kids world, which provides a new look on baseball and how it is played in neighborhoods and towns today. I would recommend this game to anyone who has played baseball in their lives, watched baseball, or played other baseball games (such as MLB the Show).
Graphics 5 Sound 9 Addictive 10 Depth 10 Difficulty 7
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Ever since Abner Doubleday created the glorious game of baseball, it has reached the he...
Graphics 5 Sound 9 Addictive 10 Depth 10 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 3.3/5 Submitted: 04-14-12 Review Replies: 1
I swear, if I didn't have the speed up button while playing this, I'd pull my hair out. This game is ridiculously slow-paced.
mtmcbride89 03-31-14 - 09:32 PM
Having trouble saving season...can anyone help me out? Thanks.
smbisme 07-30-13 - 02:57 AM
how do you choose the team you use for season?
paulbpeters0524 06-13-12 - 11:19 AM
it cost me about 200$
paulbpeters0524 06-13-12 - 11:18 AM
i have derek jeters glove
sryznar1 05-25-12 - 12:16 PM
wish they had backyard soccer
devlinj 05-24-12 - 11:48 AM
how do you steal?
Eggs 05-18-12 - 11:32 PM
why cant i hit the ball
lelouch (zero) 10-05-11 - 01:56 AM
im currently playing season im using new york mets
lelouch (zero) 10-04-11 - 08:06 AM
oh i forgot i also have ken griffey jr the best of the best in batters
lelouch (zero) 10-04-11 - 08:05 AM
team yankees deter jeter,sammy sosa,ichiro suzuki,frank thomas what a line up battlers woo grabe astig ang lakas.
camon7789 07-22-11 - 06:53 PM
not better than the PC Version But Still Good
GameNostalgia31 05-26-11 - 05:08 PM
this game is cool
tristenbaker1234 05-26-11 - 09:58 AM
hi
GameNostalgia31 05-21-11 - 08:49 PM
Play Ball
noak01 05-05-11 - 04:45 PM
u must b the first one to play this
noak01 05-05-11 - 04:44 PM
hi
khalidthegoat90 05-01-11 - 11:28 AM
hardy har
| Backyard Basketball | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Humongous Entertainment (PC, Mac) |
| Publisher(s) | Infogrames Atari, Inc. (PS2, GBA) |
| Series | Backyard Sports |
| Engine | ScummVM |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance |
| Release | 2001 (PC, Mac) 2003 (PS2) 2004 (GBA) |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Backyard Basketball is a series of entries into the Backyard Sports franchise of video games. The first game was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Infogrames Entertainment SA and released for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms in 2001. Additional games have been released on a variety of consoles, each sporting different characters and slightly altered gameplay mechanics.
As with the other entries into the Backyard Sports franchise, Backyard Basketball has received notoriety for its inclusion of pro basketball players as playable characters. The first incarnation included Kevin Garnett and Lisa Leslie. The most recent release includes Stephen Curry as its mascot.[1]
Gameplay[edit]
Backyard Basketball offers two primary modes of gameplay: Single Game, which allows the player to select a team to compete against a computer-controlled team, and Season Play, which allows the player to select a team to compete against a series of computer-controlled teams over an 18-game season, including two best-of-three playoff series and a best-of-five championship series should the player achieve a large number of victories. The Single Game mode also allows the player to compete against a second player or to practice using a single character.
Before games can occur, the player has the option to modify a variety of settings. These include court selection, A.I. difficulty (easy, medium, or hard), the presence of certain rules (fouls, fatigue, violations, shot control, and power-ups), sound options (game music, background sounds, and in-game dialogue), controls, and team names. Team modification also involves the customization of jerseys.
The game's controls are set to mouse usage by default, capitalizing on a point & click style of gameplay to move characters around. The game is also compatible with keyboards and game pads.
The selection of team members follows one of two settings: First Five Picks, which allows each player to select their team members freely, or Full Draft, which forces each player to select their team members one at a time in an alternating fashion. Each potential team member, including younger versions of Kevin Garnett and Lisa Leslie, is ranked according to five statistics operating on a 1 to 10 scale. These include Inside Shooting (the relative accuracy of the character's shot from inside the three-point line), Outside Shooting (the relative accuracy of the character's shot from beyond the three-point line), Ballhandling (the relative likelihood that the character will not have the ball stolen or blocked on offense), Defense (the relative likelihood that the character will be able to steal or block the ball on defense), and Quickness (the relative speed at which the character moves along the court). Players also have the option to customize rookie characters with either manually chosen or randomly allocated statistics, as well as heights, skin tones, shooting hands, birthdays, and names. Although rookie characters generally have lower overall statistics compared to pre-rendered players, they have the additional ability to increase all of their statistics by three levels should the player's team make the playoffs in Season Play.
Gameplay in Backyard Basketball is set to a point & click control scheme by default. With three characters on the court at one time, the player clicks at various locations on the court to guide the character with the ball to that location. Clicking on a teammate causes the character to pass the ball to that teammate while clicking the basket (indicated by a basketball icon) causes the character to attempt a shot. If shot control is on, then players have the option to make the shooting character pump fake by clicking rapidly, finally shooting the ball when the click is held down. If shot control is off, then the character will automatically release the shot once the basketball icon is clicked.On defense, the player can switch between characters to control by clicking on them as they run about, guiding the chosen character by clicking the location on the court where he or she should go. If an opposing character is clicked when an 'X' symbol hovers by them, the character nearest him or her will attempt to steal the ball. If a pair of hands appears near the basket when an opposing character goes to shoot the ball, the nearest character will attempt to block the shot or rebound the ball.
Each quarter of a game lasts approximately three minutes while each overtime period (if necessary) lasts approximately one minute. The longer characters play without rest, the more tired and prone to mistakes (poor shooting and ball-handling) they will be; as such, substitutions can be made after any completed play or during a time-out. Characters will recover their energy while on the bench (only two players can stay on the bench at a time). Granted, a character's energy will never decrease if the fatigue option is turned off.
Over the course of a game, power-ups may occasionally be rewarded to teams. The majority of these power-ups are useful, such as the flaming ball (which guarantees that the next attempted shot will go in), the tornado (which increases the speed of all characters on the court), the doughnut (which causes the next character who attempts a shot to automatically attempt a slam dunk), and 110% Juice (which provides energy to otherwise tired players if the fatigue option is turned on). However, some power-ups provide detrimental effects, such as the icy ball (which makes shots more likely to miss), the stick of butter (which reduces the team's ball-handling abilities), and the ice cream truck (which prevents the entire team from moving for a brief period of time).
Releases[edit]
Backyard Basketball games have been released numerous times to a variety of platforms. In 2001, the first game of the series was released for Windows and Macintosh featuring Kevin Garnett as the game's primary mascot, and Lisa Leslie.[2] In 2004, a game was released for the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, and PC, featuring Tim Duncan as its primary mascot.[3] The game was released once more in 2007, this time for the Nintendo Gamecube and Nintendo DS as well as the aforementioned systems, featuring Paul Pierce as its primary mascot.[4] The game has most recently been released as a mobile app featuring Stephen Curry as its primary mascot.
2007[edit]
| Backyard Basketball 2007 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Mistic Software Inc. |
| Publisher(s) | Atari, Inc. |
| Series | Backyard Sports |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube(Cancelled)Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS |
| Release |
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| Genre(s) | Sports game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Backyard Basketball 2007 is a sports game released late 2006. This is the fifth iteration of the Backyard the game is Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. A planned release for the Nintendo GameCube was cancelled.[5]
Reception[edit]
In the United States, the debut version of Backyard Basketball sold 780,000 copies and earned $13.2 million by August 2006, after its release in October 2001. It was the country's 15th best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006. Combined sales of all Backyard Sports games released between January 2000 and August 2006, including Backyard Basketball, had reached 5.3 million units in the United States by the latter date.[6]
Backyard Basketball has received low to mixed reviews throughout its multiple releases. Ivan Sulic of IGN awarded the original version a score of 6.5 out of 10, complimenting the simplistic gameplay and colorful graphics while lamenting the amount of crashes that the game is susceptible to encountering.[7] Chris Adams of IGN awarded the 2007 Nintendo DS version the same score, commenting that the addition of new gameplay modes offered more variety.[8]
References[edit]
- ^Backyard Sports. Web. <https://www.backyardsports.com/Archived 2015-04-11 at the Wayback Machine>.
- ^https://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Basketball-Pc/dp/B00005ME4W
- ^https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009EG4K/ref=s9_simh_gw_p63_d1_i5?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=1RZJWCAY0G3429TPN3H1&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=1970559082&pf_rd_i=desktop
- ^https://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Basketball-2007-PC/dp/B000FIS7YI/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1429209581&sr=1-1&keywords=backyard+basketball+2007
- ^http://www.ign.com/games/backyard-basketball-887839/gcn-848551
- ^Edge Staff (August 25, 2006). 'The Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century'. Edge. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.
- ^Sulic, Ivan. 'Backyard Basketball.' IGN. IGN, 10 Jan. 2002. Web. 16 Apr. 2015. <http://www.ign.com/articles/2002/01/11/backyard-basketball-2>
- ^Adams, Chris. 'Backyard Basketball 2007 Review - IGN.' IGN. IGN, 18 Oct. 2007. Web. 16 Apr. 2015. <http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/10/18/backyard-basketball-2007-review>.
External links[edit]
- Backyard Basketball (PC/Mac) at MobyGames
- Backyard Basketball (PS2) at MobyGames
- Backyard Basketball (GBA) at MobyGames