Sometimes accompanying the four standard batting modes (Power, Line Drive, Grounder and Bunt), some beneficial power-ups appear.

The game includes many modes, and they are Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game.īackyard Baseball attempts to recreate the experience of playing baseball as children. In the latest version of the game, a player could play an exhibition game or a 16 or 32 game season (previously 14) followed by the 'BBL playoffs,' which contains both the AL and NL divisional series, the AL and NL championship series and finally the 'Backyard Baseball World Series'. Managers cannot create players, but instead choose from a roster of characters to form teams. Some unlockable pros include Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, Greg Maddux and Mike Piazza. Some of the pros available include Chipper Jones, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Éric Gagné, Ichiro Suzuki, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome, Albert Pujols, Nomar Garciaparra, Kenny Lofton, Ken Griffey, Jr., Cal Ripken Jr., Curt Schilling, and Barry Bonds. Over the years, the idea of 'Pro players as kids' became popular, and the original stats and looks of the players changed. The original game consisted of 55 neighborhood kids. Currently all the games in the series have been developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It is the original game in the Backyard Sports series. Backyard Baseball is a series of children's games for the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, iPhone OS, and the PC.

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