What is Backyard Basketball?

Do you have what it takes to pound the boards and charge the net? Here's your chance to find out!

Build a championship basketball team of your dreams. Direct all the action, set the positions and call the plays. Earn offensive and defensive power-ups, play head-to-head - It's easy to learn and fun to play! It's the chance of a lifetime to play with the pros in your own backyard.

Game Features:

• Play alongside junior versions of professional stars Kevin Garnett and Lisa Leslie
• Full court gameplay, complete with free throws, dunks and power-ups for surprise plays
• Choose your team and customize your uniform
• Choose a name, face and skill level with Create-A-Player
• Multiplayer capability with keyboard or gamepad

Infogrames Entertainment S.A. (2002). Backyard Basketball. www.funkidsgames.com/games/bybb_pc/

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Backyard Basketball has all of the makings of a good kids game — it’s action-packed. It offers a lot of customization options, it promotes diversity and sportsmanship, and ifs based on a sport that many kids love. But at the end of the day (or in this case, the fourth quarter), Backyard Basketball falls a little short on the fun meter.

Backyard Basketball gives you the chance to play a three-on-three pick-up game of hoop. Reminiscent of the horrors of high-school gym class, you alternate with your opponents to pick kids to play on your team. Each kid has certain strengths and weaknesses — one may be a great outside shooter, while another may be a good defender. The key is to round up a diverse group that will make your team strong. You can play either a single game or a season of 18 games plus playoff games, if you’re lucky.

All of that is great. The problem comes with the game’s control scheme. You use the mouse to move players, shoot, defend, and rebound, but sometimes the game is difficult to control with the mouse. For instance, we repeatedly violated the five-second rule when attempting to in-bound the ball because we couldn’t click one of our moving teammates fast enough. This leads to a lot of frustration (good thing you can’t get a technical foul for yelling profanities at the computer). As you might guess, not being able to even get the ball in play, along with other difficult control issues, really put a damper on the fun.

Lu, Cathy. (March 2002). Backyard Basketball. MacAddict. (pg. 57).

Download Backyard Basketball for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.1 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• PowerPC G3 @ 233 MHz
• 64 MB RAM
• 4 MB hard disk available
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• Mac OS 8.1

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver