Backyard Baseball 2005

P.S. IT IS SUPPOSED TO SKIP THE PARTS IF YOU PRESS THE SPACE BUTTON!!!!


Really Fun!!!   December 29, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

This is the first Backyard Baseball game I have played, and I think it is cool!!! The grapics are all 3-D, which makes it really fun. There are some really fun and creative parks you can play in, and you even get to play with some of the most popular MLB players as kids. There is so much you can do on this game. You can even play a 18 or 32 game season and there is a world series at the end of it. You can also create your own players, which is really fun. I think this game is definetly worth the money. And if you think this is just a boy's game, your wrong. Im a girl and this game is cool!!!


great and fun   September 5, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

i love this game. i dont have it but i played it at a friends house. i love choosing a team and then choosing the posisions also i am soooo good at batting. my mom ordered it for me so i cant wait. i could seen more features to this game if my friend was not a hog and let me play more(she loves baseball and i dont blame her)you should get it even if you never played the sport.


Don't have to be a kid   December 11, 2006
Jeremy Zarzycki (Arkham University)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I didn't buy this for my kid. I'm 24 and I bought this because I liked the idea of having a simple, mouse-driven baseball game to play in boring lecture classes while I pretend to take notes.

Let me just say, if you enjoy baseball games at all, you'll like this game. Everything's been made cute and clean and colorful for kids, but underneath the shiny exterior is a very well made arcade baseball game. You have a variety of players that are rated in various categories, each with their own strength and weaknesses, to draft for your team. The game has a full, continuous-season mode that, while lacking any new rookies or trading mechanism, is still made fun thanks to the surprisingly complete statistic tracking and award certificates (which allow you to unlock new players.) You can make all the basic managerial decisions including deciding what positions to play players at, making pitching substitutions and setting your batting order.

And underneath what is a solid simulation-like package, rests a simple yet deep game. You have full control over pitching and fielding, a 3 dimensional strike zone for hitting, arcade-like power-ups for both pitching and hitting and variable difficulty levels which allow you to turn on and off things like a ball locator when batting.

All in all, if you're looking for an intense, simulation-driven baseball game that captures the feel of the majors, you probably never bothered even looking at this page. This, however, is a fun, arcade-style baseball game that does an excellent job of cutting out the more complicated things while keeping and executing all the essentials. I can't recommend it enough for anyone, no matter what their age.


Worst of the Backyard Baseball series   June 28, 2004
4 out of 10 found this review helpful

I just purchased this product today for my seven-year-old son, and I must say that this is the biggest piece of junk I have ever wasted $19.99 on. We own the two previous versions of Backyard Baseball, as well as Backyard Football 2002 and though they were simply wonderful products. We were very excited to get the latest version of Backyard Baseball, until we got it home and tried to run it. I has failed to run on three computers, a Sony PIII 600 running WIN98, and a Gateway P4 1.9ghz and a clone AMD Athlon 1100 both running XP. On the Sony and AMD the game simply quits at random spots, or when the space bar is pressed. The Gateway bluescreens during the introduction. Since this is the first version with the Atari label on it, I can only assume Atari 'tweaked it', ruining the gaming pleasure for thousands of children.

Don't waste your money. Buy the older version. It works great!