
Backyard Football 1999 is back and now enhanced to run on modern systems. Whether you're picking Jerry Rice or Barry Sanders for your dream team, scoring TDs with Pablo Sanchez, or enjoying the witty banter between Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield, simple controls let anyone pick up and play football!
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Backyard Football 1999 is now enhanced to run on modern systems. Whether you're picking Jerry Rice or Barry Sanders for your dream team, rushing with Pete Wheeler, scoring touchdowns with Pablo Sanchez, or enjoying the witty banter of hosts Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield, simple controls let anyone pick up and play football!
Single Game: With 5 backyard fields and unique weather condition settings, players can pick their team, design their team logos, and play a pick-up game!
Season Mode: Players can draft seven players from the 30 iconic Backyard Sports characters and a collection of legendary pros including Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, John Elway, Dan Marino, Randall Cunningham, Drew Bledsoe and Steve Young to compete against 15 other teams in the Backyard Football League. Each team plays a 14-game season. By the end of the regular season, the 4 division champions and 4 wild card teams enter the Backyard Football League Playoffs to compete for the Super Colossal Cereal Bowl!
Earn power-ups by completing passes on offense and sacking the opposing QB on defense.
Offensive
Hocus Pocus – A pass play which results in a receiver teleporting down field.
Sonic Boom – A run play which causes an earthquake to knock over the opposing team.
Leap Frog – A run play which causes your running back to leap down field.
Super Punt – A very powerful punt!
Defensive
Cough Drop – A play that causes the opponent to fumble when tackled.
Chameleon – A trick play that results in your team wearing the other team's colors for ultimate confusion.
Spring Loaded – A play that causes your player to leap over the line of scrimmage to sack the QB.
At our core, we are fans first – not just of video games, but of the Backyard Sports franchise. Fans have asked for accessible and legal ways to play their original Backyard titles for years, and we are excited to deliver.
Without having access to the source code, there are hard limitations on the experience we can create. As an example, we can’t use the original 32bit code to support modern macOS, as even with an incredibly clever wrapper, macOS can’t execute the binaries.
Backyard Football ‘99 runs well, looks better than ever, is stacked with Steam achievements to test your mettle, and creates a new installation for digital preservation within the Backyard Sports catalog that allows the next generation of fans to fall in love with the game.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Kiesha phillips is prime ray lewis
PABLO SANCHEZ 15x ALL PRO 5 TIME MVP 3 TIME BOWL MVP 8 RINGS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME
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No one can stop sanchez.
the game is amazing sadly the NFL teams got removed and Farve got nerfed lolol
The game fun
What can I say another timeless classic. The simplicity is what makes this game great. If you want to press more than one button this game may not be for you, though can provide some hours of fun. Go out there and win a backyard championship!
good game would recommend to anybody/everybody
No one tell the chuds this banger is over 25 years old, they'll call it woke now
sadly i cant recommend this game iv tried but it jast feels like you dont have any control of what is happening but i do recommend the rest of the games that thay havr out on steam
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