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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 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 .
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.
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]
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The gameplay of Backyard Baseball 2001 is mostly the same as in the first Backyard Baseball title and retains all of the original game's modes: Single Game (formerly Pick-Up Play), Season Play (formerly League Play), Batting Practice, Spectator, and Tee-Ball, with the addition of a mode called Online Play, which allows players to compete with each other worldwide; this mode is only available ...
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