Publisher Playground Productions and developer Mega Cat Studios have announced Backyard Baseball ’97, a remastered version of the 1997-released Backyard Baseball. It will launch for PC via Steam on October 10.
“This was my favorite game growing up,” said Playground Productions CEO and founder Lindsay Barnett in a press release. “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 1997.”
Playground Productions chief product officer Chris Waters adde,d “This is just the beginning for Backyard and Mega Cat. We’re so proud of the engineers who worked long hours and overcame many obstacles to bring Backyard Baseball ’97 back to the gaming community.”
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
Watch the announcement trailer below. View a set of screenshots at the gallery.