Buy Backyard Basketball 2004 - PC online on Amazon.ae at best prices. Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. 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.

Backyard Baseball is a series of baseball video games for children that was released back in 2002 for various gaming consoles including the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld gaming system. Unlike other baseball simulation video games that are designed for older players, backyard baseball is suited for younger audiences and features power-ups,.

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Imagine a game where the players play for the love of the game, not the money. A game where multi-million dollar contracts are unknown. A game where everyone gets to play. Imagine a game just like it was with the youthful innocence of a child. This, my friends, is Backyard Baseball. Backyard Baseballtakes you back to when you were a kid, when baseball was a game, and the team was hastily put together among the kids in the neighborhood.

Playing for Real

Humongous Entertainment reached back into the past and captured all those childhood memories of baseball and digitally assembled them into this game. All the details that make the memories real are here - from the kids taunting the pitcher to the child with the asthma inhaler. Do you remember picking teams, taking turns picking from the best players until only the bad players were left? Do you remember picking someone's little brother because his big brother was a good player? It's all here. Nothing was left out.

Players choose from fields such as the sandlot, the urban parking lot, and the rich kid's backyard. Pitchers throw crazy pitches such as the 'Elevator' and the 'Crazy Ball.' Background ambient noises and the taunting by the opposing team add to the rich atmosphere that you can almost smell.

Everything about this game is charming and cute.

Swing and Miss

Gameplay includes all the necessary elements. Pitchers choose the pitch as well as the placement. Hitters swing at the ball and can even see the strike zone. Fielding is accomplished by clicking where you want the ball thrown, and running is as simple as clicking in the direction you want the runner to advance. Everything is here, and everything is easy enough for kids. The pace is a little slow, but not too fast for children. Each batter has a distinct personality - from the boy who hops to the plate to the girl who says 'my game is really tennis, anyway' when she strikes out. I was extremely impressed with all the details of each character.

I have a few complaints about the game. This game doesn't install any files to the hard disk - everything is run from the CD. For some reason, each swing of the bat causes the CD to be read. This makes the animation choppy and the mouse click to hit feels sluggish and unresponsive. While the game is playable with this problem, it makes hitting the ball a little difficult. Instead of getting better the more balls I hit, I never really improved. I think this is because I never was able to time when I hit the mouse button and the player started their swing. That little delay when it read from the CD just ruins the hand/eye coordination.

I tried copying the entire 270MB of CD data to the hard disk to see if that improved performance (note: this is not an option in the install menu, I just copied it by dragging the contents of the CD into a new folder on my hard disk.) It did speed up the game somewhat, but the batting problem didn't improve significantly.

I also encountered one bug: I hit a ball that bounced infield, then over the fence for what should have been a double. The announcer even stated this was a double, but the runner advanced only to first.

Worthy of Praise

This game is terrific and has all the elements of a Gold Medal winner. But I can't do it. The delay in clicking the mouse and the batter swinging the ball just ruins it for me. I still like the game a lot and highly recommend it, but a Gold Medal is for games without such evident flaws. I guess I'm mad because this should have been corrected. Even a little play testing would have shown that this was a problem. Instead, we are left with what could have been a 'Game of the Year,' but instead fails to deliver on one very important game element.

This is still an outstanding game and I recommend it strongly.

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Comments and reviews

Magman2021-05-080 point

I’m excited
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J2021-02-080 point

i love this game

PIDGEY2020-07-253 points

The game works pretty well. It is a bundle that comes with football, but I only used the basketball game and I've been fine on season mode and single games. I'm using WinCDEmu to run it, and used the compact installation if that helps.

DrDude2020-01-032 points

This game works pretty well if you just run it from the game file, not with Scummvm or dosbox

Yntec2019-03-062 points

Just like GOPPY and TOONE said before me, game doesn't work (crashes when trying to save the coach.) Plus, it's heavy because it's a Basquetball+Football bundle. Don't waste your time!

goppy2018-07-242 points

game is broken. This game seems to be broken. Can not start a season mode game and no players appear on the court when i do single player.

Toone2018-05-170 point

This game seems to be broken. Can not start a season mode game plus once a quick game is started no players appear on the court.

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Backyard Basketball

Junior basketball fans should lap up this neat little twist on the sports genre, and which continues the generally high standards laid down by previous entries in the Backyard sports franchise. This one might lack the complexity and detail of the best of the NBA series but for when you just want to shoot some hoops, this one ticks all the boxes. As the name suggests, this one takes a less than serious approach to the sport, and throws players into some cool off-court locations to get their basketball fix. You get to hang out with the Backyard Kids, and some kid versions of the top NBA stars from the period, and there's a choice of modes to play around with here. The main focus is on the 3-on-3 mode, which lets you choose your players, jersey, team names and a court, before throwing you out into the action. You can even customize your players, while there's also a variety of moves, including the standard slam dunks alongside slick power-up shots, as well as a few other bits and bobs to play around with. For younger basketball fans, this really is a top notch little game. It gets off to a great start, with its stylish and accessible presentation, which really makes things pop off the screen. There's a good range of options to play around with too, adding further to the appeal, and that's before you've even got on the court. Once you're there though, the fun really cranks up, and although the gameplay is quite simple, it's fast, furious and rarely less than entertaining. When you add in the nice visuals, you have a good all-round kids basketball game.