Platform: Windows & Macintosh
Publisher: HUMONGOUS ENTERTAINMENT (L)
Packaging: jewel case Ages: 5 to 10 - The roar of the crowd. The cool autumn air. The mud on your jersey. It's Backyard Football! Junior Sports, the #1 selling sports CD-ROM series for kids, teams up with the NFL's Quarterback Club to bring you a unique gaming experience where the "real" Pro Players take the field... as kids! Now, you'll get a chance to play against your favorite sports stars. Pick from Steve Young, Barry Sanders, John Elway and your favorites from the Backyard Bunch. Then choose your team, logos, colors and strategy. You direct the action as you run, pass, tackle and kick in a suspenseful backyard football game. Join announcers Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield for some of the wildest football ever.
Features:
- Players can choose from all 31 NFL team names and logos
- Kid versions of some of the NFL's top players join the Backyard Bunch
- Five-on-Five football with instant replay and wild touchdown dances
- Guide your team through a 14-game season and to the Super Colossal Cereal Bowl
- Simple point-and-click controls
- Multiplayer head-to-head capability using your keyboard or a gamepad
- Junior Sports Network compatibility allows one-on-one, real-time games on Windows based systems
- Create your own Backyard Kid with the "Create-A-Player"
- Track game, season and lifetime statistics
The NFL Kids
Backyard Football teams up with the NFL Quarterback Club to bring real-life pros to the playing field as kids. Junior versions of Steve Young, Barry Sanders, John Elway, Dan Marino, Drew Bledsoe, Jerry Rice, Randall Cunningham and Brett Favre join the ranks of the Backyard Football League. It's some of the wildest football ever.
Junior Sports Network
The Junior Sports Network (www.jrsn.com) from Humongous Entertainment is the first ever online sports community that lets kids play each other one-on-one. Just think, now Windows users can play a game against kids in other cities. It's Secure! It's Simple! It's Super Fun!
The Junior Sports Network features:
- Incredible ease of use with varying skill levels. Now it's as simple as a mouse click to meet sports gamers who have your same skill level.
- Customizeable screen names and faces. You can create your own unique name and face so that others can identify you at any time.
- Banners and messages from Junior Sports headquarters. The Junior Sports Network will update you with the latest Backyard news.
- Exclusive Junior Sports Network Polls. Vote for your favorite Backyard Baseball kids or your favorite brand of bubble gum. Now you can find out how you compare with the rest of the word.
System Requirements:
Windows 95/98: Pentium 90, 16MB RAM, 4x CD-ROM.
Macintosh: 133 MHz PowerPC, System 7.5.3 with 32MB RAM, 4x CD-ROM.
Online System Requirements: Pentium 166, Windows 95/98 with 32MB RAM, ISP connection, 33.6K modem.
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