Backyard Baseball 2005
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Cover art of the original GameCube version featuring Alex Rodriguez, then of the Texas Rangers; the PlayStation 2 and Windows versions update his appearance to wear a New York Yankees uniform after his 2004 trade to that team | |
| Developer | Humongous Entertainment |
| Publisher | Infogrames/Atari |
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| Genre | Sports |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
Backyard Baseball is a 2003 baseball video game developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Infogrames (later Atari). It was originally developed and released for the GameCube on April 2, 2003. Updated ports for PlayStation 2 and Windows were released in 2004 on March 23 and June 22, respectively, with the Windows version released as Backyard Baseball 2005. All versions are collectively the fourth main entry in the Backyard Baseball sub-series of the Backyard Sports franchise, with the GameCube game being the first Backyard Baseball game released for a home console and the first Backyard Baseball game to use a 3D graphics engine instead of the SCUMM engine.