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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 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.
![Backyard Backyard](/uploads/1/2/5/6/125604038/465793580.jpg)
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
Published: 3 November 2019, 5:13 pm
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Developer: Humongous Entertainment Publisher: Humongous Entertainment Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in US: 1997 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. |
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Backyard Baseball, geared towards kids 5-12 (or older), puts a cute face on America’s all-time favorite pastime – baseball. This kid-centric title from Humongous features simple gameplay, nice cartoony animations and plenty of bright colors to go with them.Players choose their favorite players, create a team and play a season. Characters all have their own personalities that you must factor in, divided into four categories. Backyard baseball pc download.
There, you've gotten a good 70% of the Backyard Baseball experience. The rest is 15% pop flies, 10% foul balls, 4.9% strikeouts, and 0.1% Jen Taylor squealing 'Caught in a pickle!' - just like the real thing.
- 1Unused Graphics
- 3Unused Dialogue
- 4Unused Text
Unused Graphics
Placeholder Headshots
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The game contains a full set of placeholder character headshots for the strategy menu. They're stored in a different format from the final versions, which suggests the menu was overhauled at some point and the old graphics were forgotten about.
For what it's worth, this is probably the earliest available artwork showing the characters hatless.
Character | Early | Final | Character | Early | Final |
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Kimmy Eckman | Ronny Dobbs | ||||
Maria Luna | Achmed Khan | ||||
Angela Delveccio | Amir Khan | ||||
Vicki Kawaguchi | Kenny Kawaguchi | ||||
Gretchen Hasselhoff | Pete Wheeler | ||||
Sally Dobbs | Dmitri Petrovich | ||||
Billy Jean Blackwood | Ricky Johnson | ||||
Ashley Webber | Marky Dubois | ||||
Sidney Webber | Reese Worthington | ||||
Kiesha Phillips | Pablo Sanchez | ||||
Stephanie Morgan | Tony Delveccio | ||||
Luanne Lui | Jorge Garcia | ||||
Annie Frazier | Dante Robinson | ||||
Jocinda Smith | Ernie Steele | ||||
Lisa Crocket | Mikey Thomas |
Room Backgrounds
Several of the game's rooms are used only for storing data and don't need a background, but all of them have one anyway. Some are just blank, but a few are more interesting.
Rooms 16 and 19 store the background chatter for the female and male characters, respectively. Their background consists of the handwritten message 'Stupid talkies' against a very eye-displeasing background.
Room 22 contains the batting animations and this quirky message.
Room 25 holds most of the baseball logic, and a similar message to room 22.
Humongous Vision
A few placeholder graphics for the Humongous Vision display are still in the game.
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This seems to be how the board looked early in development. Assuming it had the same placement at that point, the green bit at the bottom is the center point of the home run fence.
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A placeholder version of the infield fly rule screen.
It's not clear what this is, but it's obviously meant to fit into the same 'slot' as the early Humongous Vision graphics. Possibly it was meant to simulate fields without the display for testing. Most likely, the brown thing on the right connected to some other placeholder graphic, now lost.
Collision Maps
There are several graphics in the game data which, when assembled and overlaid onto the baseball fields, seem to mark parts of the collision data for each area. They're incomplete, though every field except Tin Can Alley has at least one.
Cement Gardens
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Dirt Yards
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Eckman Acres
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Playground Commons
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The odd streak on the second base line is actually part of the tree graphic overlay in the bottom-right corner, so it's definitely in the right place. Who knows what it's doing there.
Sandy Flats
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For some reason, a Steele Stadium component is stored with the Sandy Flats pieces.
Steele Stadium
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Parks Department Field No. 2
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Big City Stadium
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Super Colossal Dome
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Miscellaneous
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A 'TEMP' version of the tournament bracket menu icon snuck into the final game.
This save/load preview placeholder is present in several other Humongous games. This game displays the teams and score instead of a graphical preview, so presumably this is just left over from whichever game this was built off of.
Camera Debugger
This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: See if there's some way to make this do whatever it's supposed to. |
Room 6 seems to be the remnants of a camera debugging system, probably related to the pseudo-3D gameplay in the overhead field view. The buttons on the control panel are apparently programmed to adjust the specified parameters and print relevant debug text like 'camera X angle is %d', and there are several scripts in the room that are obviously meant to do something, but it's not clear how this is supposed to be loaded or whether it still works.
Unused Dialogue
To do: There's likely lots more. |
System Messages
Apparently Sunny Day was supposed to read out the text for the game's menus, which are silent in the finished game. These files appear at the very beginning of the dialogue file along with several other unused lines below, suggesting they were moved there when this feature was cut, then forgotten about.
File | Subtitles |
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Anyways.. | |
All right, then. | |
Okay, then.. | |
Are you sure you want to quit the game? | |
Are you sure you want to delete this team? | |
Are you sure you want to do that? | |
Are you sure? | |
Are you sure you want to stop? | |
Do you want to save the game? | |
..nothing. | |
You pick first | |
You pick second | |
You are the home team. | |
That means you pitch first. | |
You are the away team. | |
That means you bat first |
Players at Bat
The only thing Sunny Day says when generic players are up at bat in Baseball '97 is 'steps up to bat', but she has unused variations that would eventually go used in the Major League licensed editions that add pros.
File | Subtitles |
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steps up. | |
comes to the plate. |
Color Commentary
A few of Vinnie's lines go unused. Like Sunny's lines above, these are at the very beginning of the dialogue file.
File | Subtitles |
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The force is off, so the best play is at first. | |
I think this pitcher should mix up the pitches a bit, because the batter's going to figure it out if you keep throwing the same pitch. | |
Gotta keep an eye on that juice meter. When the juice is low, so is the pitcher's accuracy. | |
Might want to try changing up the batting stance.. |
Wrong-Way Baserunning
There are several clips of Sunny and Vinnie reacting to players running around the bases the wrong way. Although this is occasionally alluded to in the game, it can never actually happen.
Sunny
File | Subtitles |
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What's this? Where's she going? | |
Hey! He's going the wrong way! | |
Wait a minute.. what's happening here? | |
What's going on here? |
Vinnie
File | Subtitles |
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Can you believe that? She's heading backwards! | |
Maybe he has to go to the bathroom. | |
Well, Sunny, we've got one confused kid out there! | |
My, oh my! She's running in the wrong direction! | |
You gotta wonder what's going on in his head. |
'And a Miss'
Sunny has a few lines related to receiving a strike by 'missing'. It's possible there was originally some element of aiming the swing rather than just timing it, or these were just generic variations on the regular messages that were cut because they could be misinterpreted as implying this feature existed.
File | Subtitles |
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and a miss! | |
and a miss.. Strike 1 | |
and a miss.. Strike 2 | |
and a miss.. Strike 3 |
Other
A clip of Sunny saying 'Tags her!', but for some reason it's incorrectly sampled to play at half-speed (and also with some very bad audio feedback).
Here's what it should sound like normally.
Unused Text
Subtitles
Most Humongous games have inaccessible subtitles, and this one is no exception. Unlike most games, adding 'TextOn=1' to the game's configuration file does not turn them on, making ScummVM the most practical way to see them.
Debug Output
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To do: Document. |
Also like most Humongous games, this one contains a slew of console debug output. The easiest way to view it is to run the game in ScummVM and set the debug level to 0 or higher.
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