You may be thinking why are we looking at Backyard Soccer? Well in a world where sports games are all about being ultra realistic and sim based. Backyard Soccer was there reminding us what it was like to be kids, playing soccer with our buddies, picking our own teams and maybe even playing together in an actual league!
Dec 26, 2014 Now in its 6th season, Backyard Football is the best selling kids’ football video game of all time. Combine realistic 7 on 7 team play with wild arcade style power moves and check out the new gameplay, graphics, and environments. Play all 32 NFL teams, 10 wacky Backyard teams, or create your own. Backyard Football comes loaded with top NFL. Backyard Basketball and Backyard Football 2002 are now available for Mac and Windows systems (system requirements were not available as we went to press with this article) for US$19.99 each.
Welcome To The MLS
One of the weirder things about the 2004 version of Backyard Soccer was that the game got the rights to start using the MLS license. This lets you play as the actual MLS teams which I guess can be fun if you think about working your way up to playing as one of them.
Plenty of Time on The Pitch!
Backyard Soccer actually has quite a lot of game modes. The main “campaign” is Season Play. This is where you set out to win different leagues. B Division Championship, A Division Championship, Premier Division, Indoor Soccer Tournament and the awesomely named, Astonishingly Shiny Cup of All Cup’s Cup are there for you to win.You can also play a single match and practice your penalty kicks. Two other options at the menu screen are, first of all, learn about the different players that you can select for your team and also the Hall of Fame mode. The Hall of Fame mode is cool as you can track how well you have done as you have played the games.
Picking The Right Kids
One thing that is really fun in Backyard Soccer is the way that you put your team together. All of the kids are sitting on the bleachers and you can select your dream team of players. When you click on one of the kids you can see their stats. They have individual stats for kicking, ball control, defense and running. You and the AI (or another player) take turns picking players until you each have a team.You will pick eight kids to make up your team and then you have to decide who your 6 staring players are and who your 2 substitutes are. You can pick what positions the kids play in so it is important to pay attention to their stats you play them in the right position so that they can best benefit your team. This is kind of cool as this is a kids game, it teaches kids to think about positioning.
Playing the Beautiful Game
The actual gameplay of Backyard Soccer is a bit more slow paced than you would expect. You can play with a keyboard, controller or even the mouse. You also have different difficulty options and you can adjust the rules such as offside, how long the game lasts and so on. So you do have a lot of say in how the game is actually played. There are also power-ups that can be used which give the game a kind of Mario Strikers feel to it which is pretty cool.
In all Backyard Soccer is a fun kids game. It has more depth than you would think and for a younger kid, I do think that there is a lot of fun to be had here. If you are a parent looking for a fun sports game to play with your child and they love soccer. I really do think that you could do a lot worse than Backyard Soccer. You just have to keep in mind that this is a game that is aimed at kids.
7/10
Pros:
- The art style has a kind of Nickelodeon vibe to it
- Let’s kids thin about strategy
- Plenty of control and gameplay options
- Picking your players is fun
- Plenty of tournaments to try and win
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Cons:
- It is a game that is aimed at kids
- It is a bit older now so might be hard to get running on a modern PC
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Description of Backyard Football Windows
Here is the video game “Backyard Football”! Released in 1999 on Windows, it's still available and playable with some tinkering. It's a sports game, set in a football (american) and licensed title themes.
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Comments and reviews
ron2020-01-053 points
The game works fine. You have to use ScummVM to play it on modern computers. Just extract the iso from the zip, then extract the contents of the ISO to a folder. Install ScummVM and point it to the folder you extracted the ISO to.
Thual2020-01-020 point
I can't get the sound to work. Any ideas?
DakPrescott2019-12-311 point
So everything runs fine but when I open the game again it wants to reinstall. Any suggestions?
LupusCuervo2019-12-160 point
Anyone have trouble with this download? I got it fired up, but once I started a game the screen would freeze on a corner of the field and nothing would happen. Had to close the game via Task Manager
jaybo2019-12-122 points
loved this game as a kid and just want some nostalgic memories now.
BIG NOSS2019-10-211 point
I LOVE BACKYARD FOOTBALL
GreenBayIsForLosers2019-08-231 point
I had it work fine with ScummVM, actually, so maybe there was a problem with your download? Go Bears.
PackerOwners2019-04-143 points
Will this work with ScummVM I was unable to get this to work with Scumm. I think we need a windows version to work like with Backyard Baseball.
dragontits2018-11-151 point
used to play a lot as a kid..
ChiefChessekau2018-09-101 point
The nostalgia is in full force
Haseeb2018-09-090 point
Very very good game
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