from the descriptions of various news outlets, the production company is looking to make "vertical slices" of games, comics, merch, and anything else. a vertical slice is a completed small piece of a product that is typically used to show off to an investment company, dev team, or publisher so basically they're looking to find people or a company interested in making various pilots and pitches to companies
I was initially excited but yeah as my nostalgia part of my brain calmed down, I got worried since this company is saying and marketing it all well but I feel like it's either a easy cash grab for them or something shallow made to get something better (for the execs). I hope this isn't the case and my cynicism is unfounded but we'll have to see
I cannot WAIT to spend $99.99 for 250 "backyard bucks" so i can buy packs for my Backyard Ultimate Team and gamble all of my money praying for the .000001% chance of pulling a pablo sanchez. LFG!!!!
@thatboy3930 Well, you cannot deny the truth. Backyard Baseball has not made a new game over 20+ years. So yeah. Whine all you want about the over used joke. It is true.
Vertical slices are sort of like proof of concept things for selling ideas to investors and publishers. So they're taking the remaster of the original game and then will show it off to publishers to try and get them to buy in to making all new games. Same thing with them making some merch to sell, it's all about testing out a market and getting backing.
@@xavierjohn495 Idk what Drue is doing. I can only think that he has had a real bad irl situation not letting him focus on his bread and butter, UGF Pandas!
@@corbincollier668It’s buggy yeah, but still playable. Plenty of examples on yt of people having entire powerhouse franchises. Still perplexed on why Drew is taking so long.
I made my hockey water bottle stand out with a sticker of the entire roster from backyard sports minus the pros. And another sticker with the hockey commentators, Sunny Day and Buddy Cheque. Sadly, not too many of my teammates get it but I still love it! I also didn’t know there was a store so I just now bought the two pins!
The way I see it: Playground Productions is doing what they can to drum up genuine consumer interest that they can show off to investors (the newly made Discord server and social media posts, for example) along with their produced material (the trailer, merch sales, etc). All in the hopes of getting the investor support needed to get the development of their game (a remaster/re-release or even a new game) really revved up with new employees and resources.
Yea my opinion the best backyard baseball game is the one with arod on the cover that’s the first one that came out on ps2 I think it was 2005 the first one with 3D characters I like these too but they play too damn slow I feel like the Pablo from that game looks way better as well has a bigger more noticeable stomach and the hitting is much better aswell
As someone who probably wasn’t born when the it’s were released (I’m not sure) but has loved watching so many people’s videos about it I’m stoked for this
This may be wishful thinking, but I hope what they mean by “modern features and gameplay that today’s audiences expects” is that the user interface and the controls are more fine tuned. Since I played it on pc back in the day I would, be clicking the area in front of my runner to advance to the next base, but then have to run back if the outfield had a strong arm. But clicking behind them didn’t always make them run back to the base. So I hope it’s something along those lines of gameplay. As far as features go. Since there’s not a lot of couch co-op anymore I would hope it would be things like online multiplayer and dynasties you can play with friends
I think Drew maybe underestimates his own reach - yeah the Kelce brothers have a larger platform but Drew doing his videos had to have made an impact as well.
I hadn't played BYB in 15 years. I played it as a kid. I had BYB 2001 installed on my folks Compaq PC. I loved that game. It's wacky antics, the dialogue the gameplay. I was given a copy by a colleague during my freshman year in 2014. I still remember booting BYB 2003 I was given in a flash drive. I was excited! And I was instantly brought back to 2002 as a kid. The game still played as I remembered. I was in love again! I put maybe 100hrs into that game. Before I had to focus on school work. Almost another 10 years later it once again stole my heart!
Hope this does better than how the other Humongous titles have been treated. Just carbon copy rereleases on PC and Switch and kind of crazy prices for the age of the game. Would love to see an eventual new game with maybe a new generation of kids and new fields with unique features. But I’m doubtful.
🔥🔥🔥 So hype! I want more sports games like this. Stopped buying the "simulation" sport games since 2018 since they are just yearly roster updates with somehow worse gameplay and game modes
I also grew up on Backyard Sports and can't wait to see how the revival stays true to the original yet at the same time modernizes itself for an upcoming generation.
The resurgance of this beloved shot of nostalgia for a great many of us is really cool to see. Assuming Humongous is involved, I'm just hoping/looking forward to them not trying to money grab it. Just develop it as a remaster for starters, and all but guaranteed folks are going to flock to it. Backyard Baseball, Hockey, and Football are all-time for myself and a lot of us that grew up with these games.
i loved backyard sports as a kid, i always played the backyard football 2010 game on my Wii. hopefully they bring the football one back, along with the backyard baseball and basketball
Ive grew up playing the Backyard Baseball on the PS2, which started my love of the Montreal Expos. I was born in 2004 and don't remember the team, but the fun and enjoyment that I got with playing the game and taking the worst team to the championship has always been fun. Hopefully it'll work and will be excited to try it out! edit: they should bring fans or older developers behind the o.g series just to overlook the progress and point out mistakes.
I absolutely loved the backyard sports games growing up, especially baseball and basketball. I still have baseball and basketball for ps2 somewhere around for safe keeping whenever I get the urge to play it.......which might be right now lmfao.
Honestly like a backyard baseball TV show or movie could be pretty good. The characters already have a lot of personality from the game. You could definitely make like a story about a ragtag bunch of underdogs that everyone underestimates because of preconceptions.
By "modern features", I think they could be including an Ultimate Team-esque online mode... so yep, card packs and microtransactions Hope I'm wrong though!
Backyard Baseball 2004 on PS2 was actually not bad at all, had so much fun playing that as a kid and it just felt like an extension of the PC versions of the game.
Hey NTE, I think it’d be worth giving Backyard Baseball 10’ for the Wii. I find it really nostalgic, the graphics arent terrible, and there’s a special power system. Just a thought, love the vids.
Personally i played a lot of backyard basketball 2003 on my pc back then, i never played any of the other backyard sports games just the one basketball game but i’m definitely interested in playing the other sports, i just hope these also are coming to consoles and not just PC.
I did enjoyed playing those games as well and I'm only 26. I had the controller that you would plug into either your v. HS system or directly into your T. V.
I'm going to bet 2 things: 1. Pro teams will want to see how popular it is 2. Modern audiences expect is absolutely microtransactions to get actual pros
I never knew this game existed until I saw your videos on it. Now I'm hyped because it seemed like an incredibly fun game. I'm hoping they bring back the soccer game as well. Would love to have modern day MLS players in it.
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UGF baseball recruit Pablo Sanchez
Y E S 😂😂
we need that
What's Ugf?
@@DGsenior his team
I got Backyard Baseball from a cereal box. Those were the days
Same
Notice how everything went to shambles after they stopped doing that?
@@wakebrock I mean, you've got a point
Man I wish I could just get video games in my cereal box, so sad that they stopped doing that
@@wakebrockcoincidence? I THINK NOT
from the descriptions of various news outlets, the production company is looking to make "vertical slices" of games, comics, merch, and anything else.
a vertical slice is a completed small piece of a product that is typically used to show off to an investment company, dev team, or publisher
so basically they're looking to find people or a company interested in making various pilots and pitches to companies
I was initially excited but yeah as my nostalgia part of my brain calmed down, I got worried since this company is saying and marketing it all well but I feel like it's either a easy cash grab for them or something shallow made to get something better (for the execs). I hope this isn't the case and my cynicism is unfounded but we'll have to see
Can anybody tell me if it will be able to be played on Xbox?
@@BeckettJackson-z4y I don't think we know any of platforms it'll be on right now but I'll be sure to tell you as soon as I know.
@@BeckettJackson-z4ywe don't know yet.
I cannot WAIT to spend $99.99 for 250 "backyard bucks" so i can buy packs for my Backyard Ultimate Team and gamble all of my money praying for the .000001% chance of pulling a pablo sanchez. LFG!!!!
So Excited! Fun fact, in my 2k franchise I saw Pablo Sanchez in the draft pool and had to pick him up. Now I have Pablo on my team. he's a 6'7" PF
Is he good what’s his stats
which game are you talking about?
@@IvanioXD NBA 2k24
@@bingbong17760 I mean, he’s a solid 81 ovr back up. He’s really really good, just have a superstar PF ahead of him
@@TheUltimateTiger432 Is there pablo sanchez in that game?
We got backyard baseball before GTA 6 💀
Bro that's crazy 😂
You guys need to find a new joke to repeat over and over before GTA 6
Lol
@thatboy3930 Well, you cannot deny the truth. Backyard Baseball has not made a new game over 20+ years. So yeah. Whine all you want about the over used joke. It is true.
ENOUGH WITH THAT JOKE ALREADY!
Seriously, it's getting stale.
When we needed him back the most, Pablo Sanchez said: I got you!
It’s called backyard sports, I’m pretty sure it’s all of the sports but it only showed baseball because it’s the most nostalgic.
Or because its just the intro to the backyard baseball game theyre most likely making
The last ones that were made were called backyard sports as well. So it’s just the new brand lol
@@jknifgijdfui fair
Pablo is gonna inspire a whole other generation
Vertical slices are sort of like proof of concept things for selling ideas to investors and publishers. So they're taking the remaster of the original game and then will show it off to publishers to try and get them to buy in to making all new games. Same thing with them making some merch to sell, it's all about testing out a market and getting backing.
I cannot wait 😭😭 i remember getting backyard baseball in a box of cereal and played it for years
We got Backyard Baseball before the UGF Pandas
Bro real I was hoping this break was for that
@@xavierjohn495 Idk what Drue is doing. I can only think that he has had a real bad irl situation not letting him focus on his bread and butter, UGF Pandas!
@@InSaNeRuSsELL59He’s already said the TeamBuilder isn’t working for him
Cfb25 teambuilder kinda sucks rn and is full of glitches
@@corbincollier668It’s buggy yeah, but still playable. Plenty of examples on yt of people having entire powerhouse franchises. Still perplexed on why Drew is taking so long.
I made my hockey water bottle stand out with a sticker of the entire roster from backyard sports minus the pros. And another sticker with the hockey commentators, Sunny Day and Buddy Cheque. Sadly, not too many of my teammates get it but I still love it!
I also didn’t know there was a store so I just now bought the two pins!
I can't wait to play this with my son, just like my dad did with me with the originals.
This man done willed a dead franchise back to life. I thought only Dunky could do that.
It was unexpected that Backyard Baseball would make a massive return. ⚾️
The way I see it: Playground Productions is doing what they can to drum up genuine consumer interest that they can show off to investors (the newly made Discord server and social media posts, for example) along with their produced material (the trailer, merch sales, etc). All in the hopes of getting the investor support needed to get the development of their game (a remaster/re-release or even a new game) really revved up with new employees and resources.
They should've waited until next years and release it during the weeks of the LLWS.
The gamecube era game slander in crazy. Those games were amazingly fun. Football and baseball in particular.
Yea my opinion the best backyard baseball game is the one with arod on the cover that’s the first one that came out on ps2 I think it was 2005 the first one with 3D characters I like these too but they play too damn slow I feel like the Pablo from that game looks way better as well has a bigger more noticeable stomach and the hitting is much better aswell
I want to see Caitlin Clark hooping against the virtual Van Lith twins, Sidney and Ashley Webber
As someone who probably wasn’t born when the it’s were released (I’m not sure) but has loved watching so many people’s videos about it I’m stoked for this
I'm more hyped than when I was for college football 25
There needs to be a Backyard Racing. Could you imagine what a Mario Kart clone with the Backyard Sports kids would be like?
3:45 BOBBY WITT JR MENTION 🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️ MVP
BOBBY FOR MVP GO CROWNS
Greatest game of all time!
I too want a Switch release.
0:54 I know they’re not the best but Backyard Football 12 is the only backyard game I’ve played and it’s pretty decent imo
Praying they release a ps5 port of the backyard sports games. It's all I need in my life
0:19 already missing Seattle in the background
When can we expect UGF Drewski?
Fr
Just re-release the og games on steam and im happy
In the trailer if they played Pablo’s music when he stepped up to the plate with the wind blowing would’ve been immaculate
This may be wishful thinking, but I hope what they mean by “modern features and gameplay that today’s audiences expects” is that the user interface and the controls are more fine tuned. Since I played it on pc back in the day I would, be clicking the area in front of my runner to advance to the next base, but then have to run back if the outfield had a strong arm. But clicking behind them didn’t always make them run back to the base. So I hope it’s something along those lines of gameplay. As far as features go. Since there’s not a lot of couch co-op anymore I would hope it would be things like online multiplayer and dynasties you can play with friends
Yay backyard baseballs coming back
I think Drew maybe underestimates his own reach - yeah the Kelce brothers have a larger platform but Drew doing his videos had to have made an impact as well.
This art style reminds me of old Cartoon Network and I love it
I hadn't played BYB in 15 years. I played it as a kid. I had BYB 2001 installed on my folks Compaq PC. I loved that game. It's wacky antics, the dialogue the gameplay. I was given a copy by a colleague during my freshman year in 2014. I still remember booting BYB 2003 I was given in a flash drive. I was excited! And I was instantly brought back to 2002 as a kid. The game still played as I remembered. I was in love again! I put maybe 100hrs into that game. Before I had to focus on school work. Almost another 10 years later it once again stole my heart!
I am praying that these games are great. I need my hero, Pablo Sanchez
Hope this does better than how the other Humongous titles have been treated. Just carbon copy rereleases on PC and Switch and kind of crazy prices for the age of the game.
Would love to see an eventual new game with maybe a new generation of kids and new fields with unique features. But I’m doubtful.
🔥🔥🔥 So hype! I want more sports games like this. Stopped buying the "simulation" sport games since 2018 since they are just yearly roster updates with somehow worse gameplay and game modes
Welp, time to pull out my wallet. Nostalgia aside, this is a franchise I would love to see introduced to new generations.
This is the greatest news I have heard all day! Pumped! Will probably buy a new computer or laptop just to play it 😂
I bet we’d get online play. That’s my guess. I’d love for this to come to console plus with online play.
this is a sign you need to release more backyard baseball content
Fingers cross that Amir Khan comes back. ^^
Cause man... you can't have Achmed Khan without his little brother. :)
LETS GO PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE
Take it, take my money now!
Vinnie the Gooch.
I imagine the major feature is integrating online multiplayer. Not sure how much depth it’ll be, but hope to see you guys on the ballpark.
I also grew up on Backyard Sports and can't wait to see how the revival stays true to the original yet at the same time modernizes itself for an upcoming generation.
oh the content is gonna go hard
I can’t wait for this game
The resurgance of this beloved shot of nostalgia for a great many of us is really cool to see. Assuming Humongous is involved, I'm just hoping/looking forward to them not trying to money grab it. Just develop it as a remaster for starters, and all but guaranteed folks are going to flock to it. Backyard Baseball, Hockey, and Football are all-time for myself and a lot of us that grew up with these games.
i loved backyard sports as a kid, i always played the backyard football 2010 game on my Wii. hopefully they bring the football one back, along with the backyard baseball and basketball
Started watching your Backyard sports for pure nostalgia. I missed it so much, and was tempted to emulate it too. But it's returning? HELL YES!!!!
Ive grew up playing the Backyard Baseball on the PS2, which started my love of the Montreal Expos.
I was born in 2004 and don't remember the team, but the fun and enjoyment that I got with playing the game and taking the worst team to the championship has always been fun.
Hopefully it'll work and will be excited to try it out!
edit: they should bring fans or older developers behind the o.g series just to overlook the progress and point out mistakes.
LETS GOOOO PABLO THE GOAT IS BACK
return of the gooch
Get NTE as the coach
I mean, they do have a live action Pablo.It's Binnie Rodriguez. From the sand lot
I’ve not bought a video game in years. Your videos reignited my love of baseball. This might turn me around
how the fuck did I think about this randomly for the FIRST time in decades and I find a video 1 day old about a remake.
I absolutely loved the backyard sports games growing up, especially baseball and basketball. I still have baseball and basketball for ps2 somewhere around for safe keeping whenever I get the urge to play it.......which might be right now lmfao.
They will add online most likely so be prepared to see pablo every where
I hope they also release the versions that had professional players in them as kids.
Wow!
Wow. I was just thinking how cool this would be!
Yes!!! It's been 8 years since the last game!
I’ve never really cared for sports video games but this series has so much charm that I’m really excited to play it.
We got Backyard Baseball before GTA 6💀
STORM THE DIAMOND
I just heard this and I immediately came here to see if you heard about this!
This is incredibly exciting! Holyyyyyyyyy the Humongous Melonheads are back babyyyyy
I like how they decided to bring back the old art style instead of the one from those OTHER Backyard Sports games we don't talk about
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IM SO HAPPY
They should bring back the robot that pitches for the batting practice/ home run derby
Honestly like a backyard baseball TV show or movie could be pretty good. The characters already have a lot of personality from the game. You could definitely make like a story about a ragtag bunch of underdogs that everyone underestimates because of preconceptions.
Backyard baseball 2001 was the best one. Thats the one they need to try to replicate.
As long as Pablo Sanchez is in the top three of players in every single sport I will be happy.
Backyard sports is back hype is real!
Legit the only sports game you can get me to play, I grew up on backyard baseball and backyard soccer
THE MAN! THE MYTH! THE LEGEND! PABLO RETURNS!!!!
Backyard UFC. I wanna see Pablo Sanchez beat the hell out of Kenny with Vinnie doing his best Joe Rogan expression in the background.
26 years later and Pablo still has a shirt that doesn’t cover his belly 😂
Pablo Sanchez Funko Pop would sell like hotcakes
By "modern features", I think they could be including an Ultimate Team-esque online mode... so yep, card packs and microtransactions
Hope I'm wrong though!
Backyard Baseball 2004 on PS2 was actually not bad at all, had so much fun playing that as a kid and it just felt like an extension of the PC versions of the game.
Hey NTE, I think it’d be worth giving Backyard Baseball 10’ for the Wii. I find it really nostalgic, the graphics arent terrible, and there’s a special power system. Just a thought, love the vids.
Personally i played a lot of backyard basketball 2003 on my pc back then, i never played any of the other backyard sports games just the one basketball game but i’m definitely interested in playing the other sports, i just hope these also are coming to consoles and not just PC.
If we’re getting a new backyard baseball game than I want an online mode
This game absolutely belongs on the Switch!
GOATd announcement this was! I remember playing this demo and Operation amongst others
This game had so much potential
I did enjoyed playing those games as well and I'm only 26. I had the controller that you would plug into either your v. HS system or directly into your T. V.
I'm going to bet 2 things:
1. Pro teams will want to see how popular it is
2. Modern audiences expect is absolutely microtransactions to get actual pros
yeah backyard baseball comin' back yeah
Vinnie the Gooch is luvin that!
I think Backyard Sport also make a great 3D game,but more to the cel shading looks.
It was surprising to hear that his series is coming back, but I dig it.
I am surprised you didn’t mention the bat Bobby Witt Jr. used
Uhm... 3:42, no?
I never knew this game existed until I saw your videos on it. Now I'm hyped because it seemed like an incredibly fun game. I'm hoping they bring back the soccer game as well. Would love to have modern day MLS players in it.