![]() Racial tensions should prevent you from choosing “White” as your adjective, and and the state of the world should keep you from choosing “Bombers” as your nickname. The name you choose for your team is much more important now than it was in 1997, and I’m sure the people at Humongous Entertainment would agree. There are two columns, and you pick one name from each column. ![]() Only fools and people with a fear of commitment played pick-up.Īfter etching your name onto the yellow legal pad with the magic pencil, you’re taken to the team name and color page. Also, we’re discussing season mode, not pick-up. Any of the editions with professional players as kids were horseshit and fielding a team with them was unnatural and wrong. ![]() Note: keep in mind that we’re talking about the original Backyard Baseball, the one that released in October of 1997. ![]() You only get nine picks, and every one needed to count. I’m not saying I downloaded the game illegally to play on my laptop, but the pictures below had to come from somewhere.Īnd anybody who played Backyard Baseball knows that choosing your team was an art and a science simultaneously. I was devastated, then, when Dad told me “if I felt well enough to play on the computer, I felt well enough to go to school” and took me in late. Once, when I was in second or maybe third grade, I faked sick so I could keep my undefeated season moving. In all my years of playing sports, I’ve never experienced such intensity and competitiveness as I did furiously clicking my computer mouse and jamming the escape key the get to the next pitch quicker. Every kid who grew up in the 90’s or 2000’s and whose family owned a computer played Backyard Baseball and if they didn’t their childhood didn’t exist and it’s that simple.
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