
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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This is a fun game, easy to play. It has stars from 25 years ago, so may be dated to someone today, but I watched them all play. Having them in the game makes it more fun.
Works great!
Perfect for those that want the nostalgia hit. The game is really easy unless you purposefully pick bad players for your team to challenge yourself or you try to do more running plays. It takes about 5 hours to get through a season, so for $8-$10 it's not a bad deal. I love that they brought this game back and made it easily accessible on Steam, even if they lost a few rights to some names (Brett Favre as one example). Once you finish a Season, you'll probably take a break for a while. I do see myself picking this game back up from time to time though.
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This game is poetry to me. I love it. If you have a kid into sports and want to get him into PC games as well this is it. It was a 15 gap between me playing this but it is worth it. Enjoy. Barry Sanders and Jerry Rice are still God Tier!!
gooddddddddddddddddd football
This game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SUCKS. WORST BACKYARD IN HISTORY SINCE GGST. GENUINE ♥♥♥♥♥♥ HOURS, IMPROPER TO PLAY IN THE PRESENCE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALL OF THEIR CHROMOSOMES.
good
cool
very nostalgic, but a couple of issues to keep in mind: - player statistics don't match up, a 3 star runner can run faster than most 4 star runners sometimes - when running as a quarterback, it will randomly have the football/pass option when nobody is around, costing you an easy running play - on the 30 yard line sometimes you run to a spot where you can't move anymore until tackled. - sometimes an audio bug when selecting a play. aside from those, game runs smoothly and even with the issues, 10 bucks for a game with this much nostalgia is tough to pass up on.
not that good
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