Backyard Sports Is Back, But We're Not Sure Exactly How Yet
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From 1999 to 2015, Backyard Sports was a beloved kid-friendly sports game franchise with colorful graphics, easy gameplay, and one of the most dominant athletes in video game history in Pablo Sanchez. Today, Playground Productions has announced that Backyard Sports is coming back, and it's doing so as more than just video games.
Backyard Sports will be returning "across multiple verticals, including video games, merchandise, film, television and more" according to a press release. The first of these projects will launch "in the coming months," but nothing specific--including whether or not it's a video game or what platforms it will arrive on--was announced.
A brief teaser trailer was released alongside the announcement, which shows multiple kids in the signature Backyard Sports art style preparing for a baseball game. We see a treehouse with league standings and tournament brackets, the playground itself, and then as the pitcher takes the mound, Pablo Sanchez steps up to bat.
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