Grab your glove, hop on your bike and race to Steele Stadium—because the renowned Backyard Sports franchise is formally coming back to a community near you.
Playground Productions, a production business devoted to producing family-friendly content, revealed Tuesday that the precious video videogame series is returning “in the coming months” with the verysame visual of the videogames launched in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
“We’re extremely thrilled to reintroduce Backyard Sports to a brand-new generation of gamers,” Chris Waters, chief item officer at Playground Productions, stated in a declaration. “We’re taking fantastic care to maintain the appearance and feel that made the initial videogames so unique while upgrading them with contemporary functions and gameplay that today’s audience anticipates. I can’t wait for fans to see what we’re structure on the Playground.”
The initial Backyard Sports videogame entitled Backyard Baseball was launched in 1997, debuting the renowned cast of “Backyard Kids” characters like Pablo Sanchez, Stephanie Morgan, Kenny Kawaguchi, Pete Wheeler and more. Originally established by Humongous Entertainment and released by Atari, the franchise lateron included Backyard Sports videogames for soccer, basketball, football and hockey.
In 2001, Backyard Sports partnered with MLB to function one gamer from all 30 groups in Backyard Sports 2001 in addition to the 30 imaginary characters, depicting each huge leaguer as the kid variations of themselves. Randy Johnson, Tony Gwynn, Ken Griffey Jr. and Cal Ripken Jr. were amongst the professionalathletes included in the veryfirst edition. The other Backyard Sports videogames followed fit, partnering with the MLS, NBA, WNBA and NHL to function other professionalathletes from those sports, consistingof Kevin Garnett, Lisa Leslie, Brandi Chastain, Cobi Jones, Jerry Rice and Joe Sakic, amongst numerous others.
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