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Description of Backyard Baseball Windows

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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

jjawwechampein2019-10-242 points

i like this game because it has cominsens

faggy fag fag2019-09-241 point

i acually really enjoybthis game

curry2019-07-221 point

I like it

bigrickjohson.1.2019-04-291 point

i like pickles

im dum2019-04-27-6 points

how do u download again xD

Cascadianranger2019-02-246 points

For those wondering what to do after downloading, extract the files anyhwere into your C drive (even their own folder) and then add the files through ScummVM and use that to play

derp2018-12-22-1 point

does this require a cd?

Catbug2018-12-120 point

I agree with wonderwoman, I downloaded it but its just a zip file with a bunch of other files. What do I do now?

Backyard Baseball online, free

The Unknown2018-05-03-4 points

Read the FAQ dude. BTW I found Backyard Baseball 2003 4free on www.pcgamefreetop.net

M2018-04-27-2 points

how do i open these files?

nice gamer2018-04-080 point

hello guys but this game is so amazing and addictive game hehehe

WonderMan2018-04-075 points

I downloaded the files but now what?

yeet2018-04-051 point

hello this game is so lit i love it its so cool of fun for a family

barter2018-02-23-2 points

this game is awesome

T.J.2017-10-063 points

I love this game!

tall tyler storm2017-07-117 points

best baseball video game

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If The Pitching team takes to long getting theball to the pitcher it will give you a bat powerup!!!!!

When your in the field and you get a pop fly press the space bar and if you can still see the blue dotfor where the ball was hit put your arrow on the dot and then press the space bar again and then click on the blue dot.

When you hit a pop fly tap escape 3 times. If you don't tap escape 3 times in three seconds it won't work.

When you look at pictures of players in thebackground, it will be different colors. Thesecolors are blue, orange, and green. When thebackground of a player is blue, that player isgoing to have a bad day. When the background of aplayer is orange, that player is going to have agreat day. When a player's background is green,that player is going to have an average day.

Hit a ball on bounce out of view in left or rightfield in fair territory in any stadium, and itwill be counted as a ground rule double.

Hit a ball on a fly out of view in left or rightfield in fair territory in any stadium, and itwill be counted as a homerun.

When the CPU hits the ball, click on first baseto field the ball and throw it to firstautomatically.

To get a special pitch, strike out a batter whenyou are pitching.

In order to get a special hit or bat, get adouble play in the field. A sound will confirmcorrect code entry. When you get up to bat youwill either have an Aluminum Power Bat, ScreamingLine Drive, Undergrounder, or Crazybunt.Another way to get a base hit off of a specialpitch thrown to you while you are batter. A noisewill confirm correct code entry.Another way to get a special hit is to use aregular bat, either power, line-drive, grounder,or bunt, and get either a single, double, triple,or home run safely. A sound will confirm correctcode entry.

CLick on Single Game window and click on pick-upor exhibition button. Then choose your field tobe Ekman Acres. On the team select screen choosebackyard team and make your uniform to be allpink. Finally when you check your strategy MariaLuna and Kimmy Ekman they should be powered-up.Let's Play Ball! Note: Kimmy will only be poweredup when you play in your home field.

First pick 'Amir Khan' then make him thepitcher. Pick a throwing style then quickly lookat 'Amir Khan.' If he shakes his head 'no' throwit in one of the corners, it will be a strike.If he nodes yes the batter might hit it.(note: work on saeson play too.)

To charge the catcher you have to tap B 4 times in 3 seconds.

For the best team do the following. First get tothe drafting part of season,thenpick thesepeople. Pablo,Barry Bonds,Ken Griffey Jr.,Kiesha, Derek Jeter,Achmed, Kenny Lofton, Nomar,and Peete (he is very fast).

In season mode go to new coach. When you're in thefield, pitch the ball on the upper inside oroutside corner and repeatingly press escape. Dothat 3 times when you face a batter and you willmost likely strike them out.

Create your own team and make their colors allpink. Pick Maria Luna to be on your team. Herbatting will be 10, running 10, pitching 9 andfielding

At a close up on Pablo Sanchez, hold down Shiftand Enter and click once on Pablo's picture.

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While you are in the clubhouse hold down Shift andclick on the robot that is on the shelf. Mr.Clanky will be on the bench in single game modeand you can pick him to be on your team.

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When you make your team put a good batter then abad batter and you can get a double run sometimes.

When you strike the other team out, you will here a sound and get a different pitch (Fireball, Big Freeze, Corkscrew, Spitball, etc). Each special pitch will make your juice go down.Sometimes you will get more juice instead of a special pitch.

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When playing the CPU, get a person on first. If the computer hits a grounder, throw to second then first. If the play is turned correctly, you will hear a sound get either an Aluminum Power, Screaming Line Drive, Under Grounder, or Crazy Bunt.

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