Two weeks ago, millennial and Gen Z sports fans got a welcome wave of nostalgia when Playground Productions announced it was bringing back the beloved Backyard Sports video game series nearly 30 years after Backyard Baseball was first released as a CD-ROM game in 1997.
While many details of the upcoming game are still under wraps—it’s unclear if it will return as a console game, desktop game or phone app—it was a welcome piece of news for a baseball video game landscape that’s grown a bit stale. And while the new entry reportedly won’t feature MLB players, as the popular 2001 and 2003 versions of Backyard Baseball did, we can still dream that a future edition will bring professional players to the likes of Playground Commons and Dirt Yards.
