Backyard Baseball ’97 Remaster Revealed, Arriving In October On PC
Exactly 27 years after it debuted, Backyard Baseball ’97 will be available again on October 10. Playground Productions has revealed the remaster of the original Backyard Sports game, which will cost $10 on Steam.
The re-release of Backyard Baseball ’97 apparently wasn’t easy. Playground notes the original source code was “lost in the years since the 1997 release.” As such, the company teamed up with Mega Cat Studios to remaster the sports game, which teamed up with diehard Backyard Sports fans in “hacking the original CD-ROM and developing new game builds.” The developer previously worked on titles like WrestleQuest and Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit.
“This was my favorite game growing up,” said Playground founder and CEO Lindsay Barnett. “While we’re already hard at work on the future of Backyard Sports, we first want to honor the past by restoring the games that started it all for me and so many others–beginning with Backyard Baseball ’97.”