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Backyard Baseball '10 cover

2009 · Mistic Software · Sports

Backyard Baseball '10

Combining all the elements of a realistic sports title with the thrilling action of a crazy arcade game, Backyard Baseball '10, is the ultimate kids' baseball experience with new fields, detailed graphics, precise game controls, and a beefed up MLB roster including David Big Papi" Ortiz, who is returning for a second season as the game's cover player. Along with Ortiz, Backyard Baseball '10, let's kids play with or alongside other pro players featured as kids in full uniforms including stars from all 30 MLB teams such as Ken Griffey Jr., Ichiro, Vladimir Guerrero, Albert Pujols, Alfonso Soriano, and Ryan Howard. As kids play more, they are able to unlock several additional stars.

Released
25 March 2009
Platforms
Nintendo DSPlayStation 2Wii
Genres
Sports
Developers
Mistic SoftwareHumongous Entertainment
Publishers
Atari, Inc.
Perspective
Third person
Themes
ComedyNon-fiction
Age ratings
ESRB E

About

Backyard Baseball is a series of baseball video games for children which was originally developed by Humongous Entertainment. It was first released in October 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Later games were featured on Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, and iOS. It is part of the Backyard Sports franchise, of which this series serves as its first sub-series. It, along with its parent franchise, is currently handled by Playground Productions and developed by Mega Cat Studios.

After its debut entry in 1997, the series ran regularly with new installments released on a yearly basis from 2000 to 2010, with the exceptions of 2001 and 2007. The series, along with the rest of the Backyard Sports franchise, went on hiatus from 2011 until 2024, save for the release of the 2015 mobile game Backyard Sports: Baseball 2015. The 2024 reboot of the series began with a remastered release of the first game on Windows (via Steam) on October 10, 2024, with ports for iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 5 and a remaster of Backyard Baseball 2001 (2000) for Windows, iOS, and Android released the following year. A new Backyard Baseball game was released in 2026.

Keywords

  • baseball
  • robots
  • kid friendly
  • year in the title
  • scumm

Media

Backyard Baseball '10 screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Legacy

Pablo Sanchez, one of the fictional playable characters in the game, has been regarded as one of the strongest athletes in video game history.

The game has also been noted for its diversity (gender, race, disability, etc.) of characters, both in ratio of white to non-white and male to female, as well as skill level and the distribution of the best characters.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Nintendo DS25 March 2009Worldwide
Wii31 March 2009Worldwide
PlayStation 228 April 2009Worldwide

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