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At the Top of Grade School Kids' Sports Games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 37 / 40
Date: May 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Boys and girls (and their parents--believe me!) will love this fun, exciting football game from Humongous Entertainment. It features characters familiar from other "Jr. Sports League" series: Easy-going Keisha, lightening-fast Pete, and others of different ages, races, sizes, and abilities.

The action is fast and the selection of plays is great fun (you can also create your own plays!). Passing plays are the most difficult; you might want to encourage your child to focus on running, kicking, and defense, and help him or her with passing. (Our 5-year old eventually got the hang of the whole game). You can set 3 difficulty levels, play a league series culminating in a the "Super-Colossal Cereal Bowl" or play single "pick-up" games, play in preset or random weather conditions, and even make up your own player with different skills (it's fun to name this player after yourself)!

A few complaints: Once again, Pete Wheeler is the athletic, but intellectually challenged kid. I found some of his dialogue offensive--but it offers a good chance to talk with your kids about stereotypes. The compilation of player stats is good, but not as complete as the Baseball game offered by Humongous. A creative and fun addition is the inclusion of several NFL players (including Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Randall Cunningham, Barry Sanders, Brett Favre, and John Elway) as kids playing along with the Jr. Sports League cast. Now, not that I ever play this game, but I recommend Keisha on defense, Pete at running back, Barry Sanders at tight end, Annie as kicker.....

(I also recommend highly the Backyard Baseball Game by Humongous.)

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: December 09, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This series rules! I like this one the best 'cause it has the most features and I love football. Also,you can choose from pro players and even make your own custom player! You can even change your playbook and create new plays! The only problem is they only have these features in Backyard Football. This game should have 10 stars!

Great for ALL ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: January 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is totally awsome. i have all three of the backyard sports games from humongous entertainment and i play them all.... my uncle came to my house on Christmas he played 9 straiht games (hes not 5 hes 30). enjoy this game and know that humongous is comming out with backyard basketball if you like this game

Super Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: March 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Backyard Football is a very cool game. You can play a real NFL team or a made-up team. You get to play with real NFL players and/or with made-up characters. You can design your own plays or play with the defaults. It is one of the best games I have ever played.

This Series Is Awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 30
Date: November 09, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I've beaten all the games in the series. They are a whole lot of fun, and great for kids. I love them myself. The charachters are so funny. I especially like Pablo.

Not just a computor game....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I like it a lot. I really learned a lot about football.Belive me I'm not the football expert!

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this is a great game. i spent the whole night playing playing it, but i did not beat it. so when i got up in the morning i played the game and beat it with my team, the "silly rams". you can create your own team and make a draft.

bottom line- great game, buy it

Totally Rad, Dude!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game rules. It's just like real football!It has eight real NFL stars and thirty other kooky people that can make up your seven-man team. The game play is cool also. You can create your own plays, make a great play to get a special play, and then watch your characters do touchdown dances. Buy it!

1,000,000 Stars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is superb. The players, the plays, and the easy control is super. If you don't like this game, you're not real.

COOOOOOOOOOOOL GAAAAAAAAAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I own other backyard games like backyard basketball, backyard soccer, and backyard baseball but this one is the best!The cool things are you can make, and name your own plays, you can name, and make your own players also when the kids score a touchdown they do dances.Some of them are very funny!Another good thing is that the players have great skills, you can play with two people, and you can play with pro players.Bad things- no bad things!Anyone who likes baseball, basketball, soccer or any kind of sport would really, really, really, really like this game.Definitley a game I would recommend!

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