Backyard Sports
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Oct 21, 2026
Rusty FeatherstoneHOST
she's kind of done.
Willy DonnellonHOST
Y'all ever play Backyard Skateboarding? No.
Willy DonnellonHOST
I loved that game growing up.
Willy DonnellonHOST
You ever play it? No.
Nick BrunkerHOST
Mm-hmm.
Lara KrugGUEST
Um, Lauren Dunawitz on my team had a relationship with the team at Backyard Sports, and youth is a huge audience.
Lara KrugGUEST
Pre-season games are oftentimes 70, 80% families, and oftentimes 70 or 80% fans that have never come to a game before.
Nick BrunkerHOST
Totally.
Lara KrugGUEST
The, the tickets are obviously less expensive.
Lara KrugGUEST
And so we thought let's test and learn.
Lara KrugGUEST
Let's use a nostalgic IP like Backyard Sports-
Nick BrunkerHOST
Yeah
Cheryl PlatzHOST
The low-fidelity graphics of Minecraft and Roblox have primed a new generation to be more accepting of classic video game graphic aesthetics, and that has led to a generation of games that really just embrace, like, 16-bit art, pixel art, but also the resurrection of games that come from a different era, which we heard about in season two, episode 11 of this podcast.
Cheryl PlatzHOST
Playground Productions CEO Lindsay Barnett obtained the rights to a beloved franchise, Backyard Sports, which had died.
Cheryl PlatzHOST
Company was gone.
Cheryl PlatzHOST
All they had were the old games, and they reverse engineered them with the help of a retro game studio, Mega Cat Studios.
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Cheryl PlatzHOST
Gamer is a factual statement of time spent, and the more we as an industry can reclaim this, the more our gamers will find us and each other, and the discovery problem will get easier.
Cheryl PlatzHOST
And there are so many great examples that are surprisingly resonant even with mainstream folks.
Cheryl PlatzHOST
Just take the example of Backyard Sports from the last episode in season two.
Cheryl PlatzHOST
Backyard Sports is a series of digital games that actually happens to teach people how to play sports in real life and thus prepares them for real-life interactions with their peers.
Jess MorrissetteHOST
Yeah, licensed it from LucasArts.
Jess MorrissetteHOST
I believe even the Backyard Sports games, at least the early ones, are built in SCUMM, aren't they?
Ben VigeantHOST
I don't know.
Ben VigeantHOST
Um-