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Backyard Baseball is a baseball video game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment. It is the first video game released for the Backyard Sports franchise (originally known as the Junior Sports series) [2] and the long-running Backyard Baseball series. The game was released on a hybrid Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM on October 10, 1997.
The series began in late 1997 when Humongous Entertainment, owned by GT Interactive, created the first game in the franchise: Backyard Baseball. [3] Later, GT Interactive was purchased by Infogrames and was renamed as Infogrames, Inc. [4] Infogrames allowed Humongous Entertainment to expand the series, and Humongous later developed more titles such as Backyard Soccer, Backyard Football ...
Backyard Baseball has also lived on thanks to the efforts of a small but ferocious online community of players who found a way to make the 2001 version of the game compatible with modern technology.
Backyard Baseball; Backyard Baseball (1997 video game) Backyard Baseball 2001; Backyard Basketball; Backyard Football; Backyard Hockey (series) Backyard Skateboarding; Backyard Soccer; Backyard Soccer MLS Edition; Backyard Sports; Big Thinkers (video game series) Blue's 123 Time Activities; Blue's Birthday Adventure; Blue's Treasure Hunt
In July 1996, Humongous Entertainment was purchased by GT Interactive for US$76 million. [9] In November 1997, Humongous Entertainment signed a five-year worldwide deal with Nickelodeon to develop games based on the Nick Jr. series, Blue's Clues, making it the first and only time that Humongous has developed games based on a licensed character as opposed to its original characters. [10]
Backyard Baseball is a series of baseball video games for children which was originally developed by Humongous Entertainment. It was first released in October 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows .
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