Backyard Baseball

2003 video game for GameCube; 2004 video game for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows (as Backyard Baseball 2005 on latter platform)

Video gamevideo gameQ56703182

Also known as Backyard Baseball 2005

Released: April 2, 2003
, March 23, 2004
, June 22, 2004
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube
, PlayStation 2
, Microsoft Windows
Genre: baseball video game
Game mode: single-player video game
, multiplayer video game

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Backyard Baseball is a 2003 baseball video game developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Infogrames. It was originally developed and released for the GameCube on April 2, 2003. Updated ports for PlayStation 2 and Windows were released in 2004 on March 23 and June 22, respectively, with the Windows version released as Backyard Baseball 2005. All versions are collectively the fourth main entry in the Backyard Baseball sub-series of the Backyard Sports franchise, with the GameCube game being the first Backyard Baseball game released for a home console and the first Backyard Baseball game to use a 3D graphics engine instead of the SCUMM engine.

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Title: Backyard Baseball platforms: Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2
Backyard Baseball 2005 platforms: Microsoft Windows
Language: American English
Review score: 70/100 review score by: Metacritic · platforms: Nintendo GameCube · number of reviews/ratings: 4 critic review
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1.“Backyard Baseball (2003) Reviews”metacritic.com/game/backyard-baseball-2003-2003/Retrieved 2026-05-02
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none review score by: Metacritic · platforms: PlayStation 2 · number of reviews/ratings: 2 critic review
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1.“Backyard Baseball (2003) Reviews”metacritic.com/game/backyard-baseball-2003-2003/Retrieved 2026-05-02
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none review score by: Metacritic · platforms: Microsoft Windows · number of reviews/ratings: 0 critic review
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1.“Backyard Baseball (2003) Reviews”metacritic.com/game/backyard-baseball-2003-2003/Retrieved 2026-05-02
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Copyright status: copyrighted
Distribution format: Nintendo GameCube Disc platforms: Nintendo GameCube
DVD platforms: PlayStation 2
CD-ROM platforms: Microsoft Windows

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