Backyard Skateboarding

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Backyard Skateboarding is a skateboarding game developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari for the PC in 2004. In 2006, it was re-released with updated graphics and controls and featured additional power-ups, sponsors, and gear.

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Backyard Sports (originally branded as Junior Sports) is a series of video games released for consoles and computers. The series is best known for starring kid-sized versions of popular professional sports stars, such as Albert Pujols, Paul Pierce, Barry Bonds, Tim Duncan, Clint Mathis, Kevin Garnett, Tom Brady.

1. There are no diagonal direction grind tricks or lip tricks.
2. There are no double tap tricks for lips, grinds, flips, or manuals, not even triple tap flip tricks for that matter.
3. The broadcasting of Sunny Day and Eric Stream is really annoying and they never ever shut up as one of them comments every time you're doing a mission, bail, go into a water, perform a trick etc.
4. Lack of different modes to play such as a level creator, a high score mode etc.
5. Lip tricks are done with the grab button instead of the grind button unlike the Tony Hawk games which is really weird.
6. There are signature tricks that only certain skaters can do rather than all of them be able to do the same tricks.
7. You can't edit any of your tricks and change them so you can have the ones you want for a certain skater.
8. The only flatland trick is the casper slide. In contrast, in the Tony Hawk games, they have many flatland tricks that you can do.
9. Some of the real life tricks look inaccuarate. The Cannonball trick is a great example as it actually doesn't look how it is in real life.
10. When doing a balance trick; for certain ones if you go too far off to a certain direction on the balance bar, you'll bail instead of the trick ending.
11. There are no boneless/fastplants/beanplants or even no comply tricks to jump farther.
12. There's an ollie meter when you jump, which is horrible since it makes it impossible to do a regular jump without losing speed.
13. Flip tricks, grab tricks, manual tricks, double tap grabs, and lip tricks sometimes begin with FS and BS which is supposed to be for spins and grinds only.
14. There are no gaps in the levels so you could earn extra points.
15. You can do a trick by just hitting the flip or grab button without a direction command.
16. A lot of tricks are too hard to perform.
17. You can skate as only ten of the Backyard Sports kids while six others appear that you talk to for challenges, and the other fourteen kids are completely absent.
18. Only a handful of levels and unlockable characters.
19. Lack of difficulty settings.
20. The videos of Andy MacDonald skateboarding are of poor quality.
21. The time limits for the missions are too high.
22. The missions in the game are way too easy.
23. It's very difficult to spin flip tricks.
24. There are no wallrides or wallies.
25. The game is chock full of dumb glitches.
26. The physics are laughably bad.
27. The power-ups are not balanced in the slightest.
28. The controls are a bit finicky, especially with grinding.
29. Some of the tricks require ridiculous key combinations. A perfect example is with the signature tricks. Another is with the diagonal grabs where you have to hold both direction buttons and then press the grab trick button to do the trick which doesn’t give ample time to land it.

Backyard Sports (originally branded as Junior Sports)^[1][2] is a series of video games released for consoles and computers. The series is best known for starring kid-sized versions of popular professional sports stars, such as Albert Pujols, Paul Pierce, Barry Bonds, Tim Duncan, Clint Mathis, Kevin Garnett, Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Joe Thornton and Andy Macdonald. The Backyard Sports series is licensed by the leading professional U.S. sports leagues: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and Major League Soccer (MLS).

The series includes Backyard Baseball, Backyard Basketball, Backyard Football (American football), Backyard Soccer, Backyard Hockey (Ice hockey), and Backyard Skateboarding. In the games, players form a team consisting of Backyard Kids and pro players, which they take through a 'Backyard League' season, attempting to become the champions. Players can create their own athletes, starting in Backyard Football (1999). Another aspect of the games is the use of Power-Ups, allowing players to gain 'super-abilities'. For instance, 'Super Dunk' allows a basketball player to make an incredible dunk from nearly anywhere on the court, 'Leap Frog' allows a football player to jump over the entire defensive line, and 'Ice Cream Truck' causes the other team to be completely distracted for a brief period of time.

Some of these games are playable with the ScummVM emulator.^[3]

History[edit]

The series began in late 1997, when Humongous Entertainment created their first game, Backyard Baseball. Humongous Entertainment was owned by GT Interactive. Later Infogrames bought the company, and along with it came all of the game titles. Infogrames allowed Humongous Entertainment to expand the series, and they developed more titles such as Backyard Soccer, Backyard Hockey, Backyard Skateboarding, Backyard Basketball and Backyard Football.^[4] Following the buyout by Infogrames these titles from the Backyard series have seen releases for game consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and Wii.

On July 24, 2013, Epic Gear bought the Backyard Sports franchise from the Atari bankruptcy proceedings.^[5]

On December 11, 2014, Day 6 Sports Group announced the relaunch of the Backyard Sports series with Backyard Sports NBA Basketball for smartphones and tablets, with Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry as the cover athlete.

On April 19, 2019, Humongous Entertainment tweeted an image of the original Junior Sports logo, hinting at a possible re-release of the original games and/or the developer having re-secured the rights to the series proper.^[6][1][2]

Games in the Series[edit]

Film[edit]

In 2016, it was reported that Cross Creek Pictures and Crystal City Entertainment were developing a film based on Backyard Sports with Brian Oliver and Ari Daniel Pinchot producing.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abSchmidt, Eugene (April 24, 2019). 'Humongous Entertainment coming to consoles'. Barrelrolled. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
2. ^ ^abFrech, Ricky (April 24, 2019). 'Humongous Entertainment is Bringing Their Collection of 90s Classics to Consoles'. DualShockers. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
3. ^http://gamesdbase.com/list.aspx?in=1&searchtext=backyard&searchtype=1
4. ^'Backyard Sports - Backyard Basketball and Backyard Football'. Barcodespider.com.
5. ^http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130724006402/en/Evergreen-Group-Agreed-Acquire-Backyard-Sports-Video/
6. ^Humongous [@HumongousEnt] (April 19, 2019). '[Image-only tweet; image shows a red exclamation point on a transparent background overlaid with the words 'It's Junior Sports' in blue.]' (Tweet). Retrieved May 17, 2019 – via Twitter.
7. ^Fleming Jr, Mike (March 30, 2016). ''Backyard Sports' Video Game In Movie Deal With Cross Creek & Crystal City'. Deadline.

External links[edit]

• Official website (2007 archive on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
• Backyard Sports series at MobyGames