This game is great for a fast fun baseball game. The characters are great and memorable so much so you feel bad not picking them for your team. It’s easy to pick up on the controls and they seem to be accurate. The game makes you feel like a professional game in a playful kids backyard. My only gripe is you can’t transfer a save from your phone to your iPad. That’s why it only got 4/5 and not 5/5. The game is worth $5 and super fun! Enjoy!

Don’t get me wrong love the game and love the backyard sports series but in the newest updates for the game it says there are online tournaments I can’t find those for some reason I play on a iPad and the online tournaments don’t show up would like to see improvement ps for but all in all I just love this game

After playing 10 baseball games on the phone, I can firmly say that this is a wonderful port. There was only one crash I went through during that time, but that was the only hiccup I had. I was worried that I would barely be able to control well, due to it being on a small phone screen, the first game proved my worries wrong. The simple controls translate very well to the phone, and the game itself was already great to begin with!While I will probably get the PC ports from here on out, I am glad that I purchased this game, and I recommend any backyard sports fans to do the same if you’ve never played this version.

This game takes me back. I have a few complaints though. During one game, the pitcher would begin pitching before my batter’s animation was complete. This went on for a whole inning since before I closed the app. Now Pete Wheeler’s run animation is slowed down. I closed the app twice before reopening and no change. He runs slower than expected and what we all expect him to. I’m not talking about when he’s behind a runner and needs to adjust speed. I’m talking about stealing bases and he’s no where near what he was last night. If the game compensates by increasing the difficulty level, I’d like to know that. In a game I was just playing, Kenny reached second during a base hit before Pete reached third. I’m at a loss. Devs, what’s up?

This game is exactly what I was looking for! The game is such a throwback and so well done. My only criticisms are that it would be nice to see the game brought to full screen to utilize the entire screen of the phone, and that sometimes the game crashes and the app shuts down and upon restarting you find that you have to restart the entire game that you were in the middle of playing. I’m sure with a little more polishing. This game can be refined and become even greater. Thank you guys so much for putting out the effort to make this happen and bring it to the mobile platform. I really hope you guys continue developing this further and consider releasing even more titles in the future. Maybe you could release them as add-ons so that we could play different versions released in following years all under the same app? I’m thinking either one backyard sports app with all the different sports and different versions released in subsequent years? I’m sure it will take a lot of time, but…what do you think? I’m just saying, I think it would be amazing. Goodbye death scrolling on social media and HELLOO backyard sports!

UPDATE: increased to the rightful place of 5 stars. The developer made the needed improvements and no more crashing! On my way to winning my league championship! Thanks for listening and responding!! Hope to play against other people one day maybe in 3 inning games!!Original Review: I grew up playing this game and was excited for this to come to mobile. I want to thank the developer for bring a piece of my childhood back for me to enjoy. However for a paid app and having it crash now two times in a row that was in a league game right at the end is very frustrating. There is no auto save so I will need to play the same league game a third time. I know this game just came out but please get these bugs fixed. I hope to increase my rating one day soon.

Been waiting for this game to come out on mobile for way too long. Overall, very happy it’s back but disappointed with some of the execution. First and foremost the bugs are a big issue that are getting bad enough that I may just stop playing until they are fixed. 2 league games in a row where I played the entire game just for it to crash right at the end. Also, just like I’ve seen in a ton of other reviews please fix the sound; if all sound settings are off there shouldn’t be sound… Last thing, not sure why we couldn’t make it full screen? Lots of unnecessary black space. Final suggestion would be to add a brief tutorial option as a reminder for the nuances of the game those who haven’t played in over 20 years. Would happily upgrade my review once these bugs are addressed.

I played all the backyard sports games when I was a kid, and this game has a special place in my heart. Although it was a trip down memory lane, I still experienced some general issues with gameplay (it’s not perfect, could be better). The controls are a little wonky when the ball is hit in play. Controlling your fielder is very difficult even catching pop flies. I wish there was a touchscreen joystick for movement instead of tap to move. Makes catching pop ups almost impossible to catch with the tap controls. When the ball is hit in play, your infielders and outfielders will sometimes just move from their base, even if there’s a force out at that base. And it doesn’t let you tap to specify which player to move. It will just move the closest player to the ball. Timing the swing and making contact is a lot harder than anticipated. But I guess thats a good thing, creates a challenge.More players!! Old and current ones please. Maybe a deeper tournament mode, multiple seasons for one team would be nice so you don’t have to make a new team every time. Create an option to disable time consuming animations like the catcher Throwing the ball back to the pitcher after every pitch. Pointless added time to games. Pitching locator when pitching is wonky. You have to click and drag your finger to the batting zone, and then release then tap again to pitch? Even though you put the ball where you want to throw it, your second tap most likely won’t be where you dragged your finger to. Making it harder to be accurate.Hopefully devs see this feedback and tweak some things. I think the game is great. Nostalgic and fun, just how I remembered when I was a kid. I think if they make some small gameplay changes to fix errors and lower game time, with a deeper tournament mode, it would be a game I wouldn’t put down if I have some time to kill.

Game is nostalgic, bringing back great memories. If you’ve played backyard baseball in the past, you know what you’re signing up for - a light hearted, quirky, fun baseball game. Most of the poorer reviews don’t understand the old game. It’s meant to be a simple game with simple controls made to be an exact copy of the original (that’s what makes it great). It does crash occasionally (like almost any game) so make sure you save your games every so often (mid game every ~2 innings or so). While not perfect, the game is well worth the price and 5 stars. I played it for hours growing up and have already played it for hours over the last week. Hoping more backyard games are available on mobile soon!

I am absolutely in love with this game when I was younger. I would sit for hours at the computer and play this without getting tired and to see that I’m able to download it on my iPad was just amazing. The only thing I can say that I wish the mobile version, I wish it would’ve gave me the full game experience like I Had with the the CD as far as different things to do within the game as far as batting practice and all that stuff, and I figured it would’ve came with it because we did have to pay and usually with the free apps it’s little things that you have to pay for, but that’s just the only thing that I’m concerned about us not having the full version of the game.