1. 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 Baseball takes 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.
2. People also search for.

Humongous Entertainment was (and nominally remains) a video game developer formed in the 90s to make kids’ games. They made their bread and butter from two types of products: adventure/puzzle point-and-clicks like Putt-Putt and Spy Fox, and, of course, the Backyard Sports series, which I have paid tribute to previously and which the guys over at Cespedes Family Barbecue have done several brilliant posts on (like this one).

However, as sometimes happens, Humongous fell on hard times, passed between various corporations, and has most recently had it’s assets sold when Atari went under a year or two ago.

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Which leads us to the current situation. Most of Humongous’ point-and-click classics, like Putt-Putt, went to a studio called Night Drive, and they have restored them and are putting them up for sale on Steam, the famous digital distribution platform that has allowed for countless of current best-sellers and forgotten classics to be put into the hands of gamers digitally. Thanks to the fact they don’t have to worry about shipping or actually creating a physical copy of the game, prices are often lower (especially for older games, although even newer games often have sales now and then).

Problem: When Atari went under, one of the things that Night Drive did not get was the Backyard series. Instead, the “Evergreen Group” did. So, the Backyard games have NOT gone to Steam.

Yet. You see, to the best of my knowledge, the Evergreen Group hasn’t done a thing with the Backyard sports stuff they have in their possession (there was a brief thing on their Twitter about “stay tune”, but…). Let’s change that with a good old fashioned campaign:

• Tell TEG’s Twitter feed and Facebook Page that we want Backyard Baseball (and the other Backyard Sports games) on Steam.
• Contact them through their website. (Note that the contact page may not be working, as it gave me an error message when I tried it. Still may be worth a try.)
• Send actual snail-mail to the Evergreen Group’s headquarters at 1600 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266 (note that I am not sure if this address is current, as I found it on a old SEC info thing that popped up on Google).

So, there you go. Be courteous, be polite, and remember, the Secret Weapon forever.

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UPDATE: Jim Wagner of the Evergreen Group has confirmed that they will relaunch the franchise, which is great. However, it really doesn’t change the goal of this Campaign to get Backyard Baseball and the other Backyard Sports games on Steam.

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1. Backyard Soccer

Description of Backyard Soccer

1998, the year Backyard Soccer was released on Windows. Made by Humongous Entertainment, Inc. and published by Humongous Entertainment, Inc., this action and sports game is available for free on this page.

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Comments and reviews

Chr2020-11-240 point

Couldn't get it to work. Tried extracting the files but ScummVM wouldnt launch it anyways. So sad

Iroh2020-07-090 point

I want to update my first post to say the solution is for running on 64-bit, not the freezing problem.

Iroh2020-07-080 point

Answering how to get the game to work without freezing. You need to run it through this emulator https://www.scummvm.org/ . Before running it through scummVM you need to extract the files from the disk image file, then load the extracted disc image into scummVM. Once you have downloaded and installed scummVM and extracted the disc image file, open scummVM and add the game to the library, using the add game feature and selecting the folder with the game files.

big__draco__2020-05-290 point

SO DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET IT TO WORK? I STILL CANT GET IT TO OPEN UP?

gelatoyo2020-04-300 point

downloaded the iso file and extracted to allow application the be recognised. still wont run on 64 bit windows on a brand newly opened laptop. how do you get around the 64 bit problem or is there a 32 bit version

erik2020-04-091 point

how do u get the 32 bit

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Working Solution2019-06-211 point

For those wondering how to work around the potential crash issue when you score a goal- it's a sound issue. If you go into your game settings and turn off 'Chatter' and 'Player Talk' then it works perfectly fine and you can score as much as you want. You just won't here the kids saying 'I got this guys!'

James Scott White2019-05-281 point

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This file downloaded onto my PC however I had to manually extract the file. Unfortunately this game is not compatible with 64-bit Windows so it was basically a waste of time. Maybe these games from the past will be relaunched in the near future?!

Beep Boop2019-03-29-2 points

Oh, never-mind, you have to extract the ISO file itself in order to get it to recognize the files.

Beep Boop2019-03-297 points

Downloaded the files, but it is seemingly an ISO version, Which does *not* work with ScummVM.

Barry2019-02-150 point

I want back yard soccer

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