These of you who grew up taking part in video video games within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s can get pleasure from a great deal of nostalgia this weekend.
“Yard Baseball ‘97” has been re-released by Yard Sports activities on Steam, Mega Cat Studios and Playground Productions introduced Thursday. The re-release of “Yard Baseball ’97” coincided with the twenty seventh anniversary of when the sport was first launched, which was the primary online game of the Yard Sports activities sequence.
5 different video games from the Yard Sports activities sequence will quickly be re-released, Mega Cat Studios and Playground Productions additionally shared. “Yard Soccer ‘98,” “Yard Soccer ’99,” “Yard Basketball ‘01” and “Yard Hockey ’02” will finally be re-released and might be wish-listed now by means of Steam.
Mega Cat Studios and Playground Productions shared in August that they deliberate to revive the Yard Sports activities sequence in some type. Whereas they shared a trailer for the revival, particulars had been scarce on the time.
“We’re extremely excited to reintroduce Yard Sports activities to a brand new technology of gamers,” Chris Waters, chief product officer at Playground Productions, advised Sports activities Illustrated in an announcement on the time. “We’re taking nice care to protect the feel and appear that made the unique video games so particular whereas updating them with trendy options and gameplay that as we speak’s viewers expects. I can’t look forward to followers to see what we’re constructing on the playground.”
Along with relaunching the online game line, there are plans to convey the Yard Sports activities model to movie, tv and expanded merchandise, Selection reported in August.Â
The Yard Sports activities video games rapidly grew to become fashionable within the late Nineteen Nineties. Pablo Sanchez, a personality within the sequence since Yard Baseball ’97, has been extensively considered among the finest online game athletes of all time as a consequence of his strengths as a hitter and runner within the baseball editions of the sport.
Because the online game sequence grew extra fashionable, Yard Sports activities reached licensing agreements with MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, the WNBA and MLS. The licensing agreements allowed real-life athletes to look within the recreation. MLB stars, equivalent to Ken Griffey Jr. and Derek Jeter, did not seem within the sequence till “Yard Baseball ‘01,” so they are not featured within the re-release of “Yard Baseball ’97.”
NFL gamers appeared in “Yard Soccer ’99” whereas NBA gamers had been in “Yard Basketball ‘01.” There have been additionally NHL stars in “Yard Hockey ’02.”
The re-release of “Yard Baseball ‘97,” options a number of of the previous characters within the authentic version of the sport, together with Sanchez and announcers Sunny Day and Vinnie The Gooch, in response to Sports activities Illustrated. There’s additionally a season mode within the recreation.
As of Thursday, the re-launch of “Yard Baseball ‘97” is simply obtainable for buy by means of Steam, a online game digital distribution service that’s primarily by Microsoft Home windows customers, for $9.99. Nonetheless, the Yard Sports activities model teased on social media that it’ll quickly be suitable with Mac merchandise.Â
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