Backyard Baseball '97 is an arcade developed by Mega Cat Studios, released 10 October 2024 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Android.
What Backyard Baseball '97 is
Backyard Baseball '97 is an arcade game developed by Mega Cat Studios and released in 2024. It was published by Playground Productions. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rediscover the joy of the original Backyard Baseball 1997, now updated for modern systems! Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids, aim for those home runs, and various game modes. Relive the magic of this classic baseball game!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Backyard Baseball '97 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Backyard Baseball '97 launched on 10 October 2024, within three weeks of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Backyard Baseball '97 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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