Backyard Sports animated special coming to YouTube

[cheril59]

It's hard to believe that a sports games series from Humongous Entertainment is getting animated! I used to play them a lot when I was younger.

In 2002, "NFL Backyard Basics" was the first Humongous production made for TV, mind you, and it got released to DVD.

Although it's true that "Putt-Putt 'n Pals" featuring Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish and Pajama Sam, was being in development from Lancit Media and Nelvana, but they canceled. I'm betting those characters, along with the Backyard Kids, Fatty Bear and Spy Fox, would get their own cartoons if the special is a smash hit!

 

[Daikun]

Here it is.

 

[Mandouga]

It completely "struck out".

I didn't appreciate the generic "this special is based on a video game" bits. That, and the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic-style sarcasm was bad enough, but the worst parts were the fact that it was spons...er, "presented" by Dave and Buster's (a chain of "barcades"; as in one of those places you have to be 18 [or 21; don't know which, and I don't want to know] to get into), and as it turns out, it was nothing more than a glorified, 11 minute trailer for an upcoming new Backyard Baseball game. Sure, she (forget her name) learned that we make our own luck, but that ended up being irrelevent thanks to this "animated special" being a glorified trailer. If a trailer is all they wanted to do, why couldn't they have just done that?

People complain about certain TV shows being "toyetic", or glorified TV commercials. This so-called "special", however? I say show people this the next time they criticize things like Transformers, or My Little Pony, or He-Man, or Barbie, or Kamen Rider, or Pretty Cure or something like that. At least none of the TV shows or movies (bolded for emphasis) in those franchises directly advertise the actual toys they're based on. Both the TV shows/movies and commercials for the toys/etc. themselves are clearly separate things, regardless of the criticism the overall franchises get.

Going back to this "special", I'm guessing they were trying to appeal to both "brother and sister" and "mom and dad", but IMHO, thry failed miserably. In the end though, it felt like everyone involved in this "special" didn't even bother trying at all one way or the other. Again, if they wanted to do just a trailer, they should have just done that, instead of this so-called "special". Oh, and they should have gotten a different sponsor; one that's (obviously) more family friendly.

 

[Space Cadet]

It completely "struck out".

I didn't appreciate the generic "this special is based on a video game" bits. That, and the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic-style sarcasm was bad enough, but the worst parts were the fact that it was spons...er, "presented" by Dave and Buster's (a chain of "barcades"; as in one of those places you have to be 18 [or 21; don't know which, and I don't want to know] to get into), and as it turns out, it was nothing more than a glorified, 11 minute trailer for an upcoming new Backyard Baseball game. Sure, she (forget her name) learned that we make our own luck, but that ended up being irrelevent thanks to this "animated special" being a glorified trailer. If a trailer is all they wanted to do, why couldn't they have just done that?

People complain about certain TV shows being "toyetic", or glorified TV commercials. This so-called "special", however? I say show people this the next time they criticize things like Transformers, or My Little Pony, or He-Man, or Barbie, or Kamen Rider, or Pretty Cure or something like that. At least none of the TV shows or movies (bolded for emphasis) in those franchises directly advertise the actual toys they're based on. Both the TV shows/movies and commercials for the toys/etc. themselves are clearly separate things, regardless of the criticism the overall franchises get.

Going back to this "special", I'm guessing they were trying to appeal to both "brother and sister" and "mom and dad", but IMHO, thry failed miserably. In the end though, it felt like everyone involved in this "special" didn't even bother trying at all one way or the other. Again, if they wanted to do just a trailer, they should have just done that, instead of this so-called "special". Oh, and they should have gotten a different sponsor; one that's (obviously) more family friendly.

Dave & Busters is family-friendly. Kids go there all the time, usually with birthday parties or other special events. I went there as a kid. It's an all-ages place. There's nothing objectionable. The age restriction is for those people under 18 where have to be accompanied with a guardian. It's more for liability than adult content(which there is nothing like that).

 

[Mandouga]

Dave & Busters is family-friendly.

Well, the intention anyway, is that 21+ is the "target audience". Sure, it's technically "family-friendly"...until 10PM. That's when you have to leave and it becomes the "barcade" it's really intended to be.

For these reasons, that doesn't really change what I said before: I still say that this "special" should have gotten someone that's actually family-friendly. I won't mention a certain mouse that has to do with "red and white/yellow pies" if you know what I mean (that would be too easy), but it could/would/should have been anyone but a "barcade" that's only "family-friendly" on a technicality. In any case, like I also said before, in trying to appeal to both the parents and siblings, it failed miserably...at least I think so.

 

[Daikun]

Here's the trailer for the new game that's coming in July.

 

[Mandouga]

This is what they should have just done in the first place. OTOH, there's no gameplay footage, so I'm assuming this is just a teaser trailer, and the real trailer is coming soon.

 

[cheril59]

This is what they should have just done in the first place. OTOH, there's no gameplay footage, so I'm assuming this is just a teaser trailer, and the real trailer is coming soon.

Have you checked this page, though?