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Backyard Baseball 2007
- Full roster of MLB pros as kids—Albert Pujols, A-Rod, Ichiro, Jeter, Konerko, Ortiz, and more
- All 30 MLB pro teams plus 10 Backyard teams
- Customizable teams, players, fields, and uniforms
- Season play with complete team stats and standing
- Unlockables, power ups, minigames, and surprises
Backyard Baseball 2007 is the number one baseball video game for kids! Take the field with National League MVP Albert Puljos and other MLB superstars as kids in Backyard Baseball 2007, the fifth version of the best selling kid’s baseball video game of all time. Spectacular new graphics and environments, interactive backgrounds, older characters, and realistic gameplay make this the most exciting Backyard Baseball yet. The only kid’s video game to hold the coveted Major League Baseball and
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(out of 8 reviews)
List Price: $ 19.95
Price: $ 2.60
Review by Frederick S. Mandler for Backyard Baseball 2007
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This product was just horrible in every respect.
Start Up
This game does not install, but instead plays straight off the CD-ROM. I put the disk in the CD-ROM drive, and it spins away, but isn’t read. I go online, and there is a feeble help section on the Atari/Humongous site, which basically tells me to update all of my drivers. I update all of the drivers (and I do mean all) and still the disk spins but isn’t read. (And no other CD or CD-ROM gives me trouble.) But… strangely, when I put the disk in the DVD drive sometimes the drive reads the disk, and sometimes it doesnt. Either way though, the game will not start up. But, when the DVD drive does read the disk, I am able to navigate through the disk, and double click the program file and start the game.
Game Play
We have several other versions of Backyard Baseball, and this one is just pathetic. Much worse both in terms of game play and graphics than versions 5 years older. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the hitting is very hard to master, so that your child’s frustration level soon goes off the chart.
Customer Support
Emailed customer support for help in getting the game to start up normally. Got an automated response that they were migrating their customer support and would be offline for some time. WHO MIGRATES THEIR CUSTOMER SUPPORT DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON?
Then when I do finally get a response from Atari it is to tell me that they no longer support the title and refer me to the Backyard Sports web site. Which has a meager Technical FAQ section, and no way to contact them for further assistance.
This is absolutely the worst PC game and worst customer experience I have ever had in 20+ years of PC gaming.
Review by baseball gamer for Backyard Baseball 2007
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I’ve played Backyard Baseball 2005 and it brought me hours of enjoyment. I played about 1 half a game in Backyard Baseball 2007 and it brought me instant pain. The controls are clumsy, the camera settings for the graphics are bad. It’s just not very playable or very much fun. Go back to Backyard Baseball 2005 and start over from there. I was extremely disapointed in Backyard Baseball 2007.
Albert you should know something about a product before putting your name on it. Play Backyard Baseball 2005.
Review by for Backyard Baseball 2007
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I just got my game. I got a ”lucky” disk which works on my pc. A good thing is you don’t need to install it. It auto-saves. But 1 problem i had was that this game is hard. Even easy mode is hard. Overall,it’s still a good game.
Review by Robert Newman for Backyard Baseball 2007
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I bought this for my 6 yr old son and he loves it. I was worried about the reviews I read before purchasing but I had no problems with the product and it has been lots of fun. He plays it everyday…He found it hard the first few times but he has already won the World Series in easy mode after a month. We also have Backyard Hockey 2005 and we love both of them.
Review by Ned Ludd for Backyard Baseball 2007
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I recommend this fun and creative game with just a couple of caveats: it can burn a lot of time and it eventually becomes boring (i.e. after some months it will collect dust on the shelf).
I bought this game for my 7-year-old son after he thoroughly enjoyed Backyard Soccer. I noticed that the soccer game increased his desire to play the actual outdoor game and his performance on his real soccer team visibly improved. The baseball game has peaked his interest in trying out baseball and he is yearning for summer when he can join a real little league team.
Each game can take a lot of time, and I like to limit my son’s time on video games, but I think it is perfect for long car rides. We often drive for 12 hours, and my son can spend much of that time playing just this one game. It is hard to find anything else to occupy his attention for that long.
I think it is fairly challenging, even at the beginning level, but with sufficient practice you can put together a winning team at any level. We also enjoy examining all the statistics, which is what makes baseball an interesting sport.