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You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Many characters in the later games have weird hair colors.Ĭertain installments of the series provide examples of:.

A Worldwide Punomenon: Most team names are puns, as are those of most of the announcers.

Where Are They Now? Epilogue: Upon winning a championship, photos of your team's players celebrating their victory are usually shown alongside the credits.

Unnamed Parent: No kid's parents have names.

Some also invert this trope, going from being good to awful.

Took a Level in Badass: The kids' stats vary between sports, causing kids with awful stats in one sport to suddenly become very good in another.

Team Shot: In every game except Backyard Skateboarding.

Stealth Pun: Sunny Day's name is a nod to the name of Humongous Entertainment's co-founder Shelley Day.

As of Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers, they are now gone.

Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The pros, again.

Sequelphobic: This was IGN's reaction to the series.

Secret Character: There have been many, Mr.

Race Lift: The generic season kids have a different appearance in every game.

Punny Name: The announcers and certain unlockable players and coaches.

Product Placement: Parodied with 110% Juice.

Parental Bonus: The references to 1980s culture.

Overshadowed by Awesome: The kids, by the pros.

The Other Darrin: The series has had many different voice casts.

Only Six Faces: There are only a few enemy player faces available.

Only Known by Their Nickname: The custom players, due to technical limitations.

Not Quite Starring: Obviously, the pros do not do their own voices (except in NFL Backyard Basics).

Market-Based Title: The series is sometimes called Junior Sports, its original title, in Europe.

Magnum Opus Dissonance: Humongous had no intention of this series outselling their Junior Adventures, especially since Backyard Baseball performed poorly in its first year.

Her partners avert this, however (as does Sunny herself in NFL Backyard Basics).

Long Runner: The series started in 1997 and put out installments every year through 2010.

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Loads and Loads of Characters: 30 main characters plus countless others.

Lighter and Softer: The series became this over time, despite attempts to make it Darker and Edgier.

When the games went 3D, each character got a new leitmotif.

Leitmotif: Every playable character has one.

Lampshade Hanging: The announcers often do this.

In Baseball, it's Jorge Garcia, while in the 2001/03 versions it was Sally Dobbs. Each specific game also has their own general Jack of All Stats.

Jack of All Stats: Meta-example-the neighborhood kids are always overshadowed by the pros because the pros specialize in their respective sports, while the neighborhood kids play many different sports.

In-Series Nickname: Every playable character has one.

However, in all games, playing the game on a kid's birthday will buff their stats for the day.

Holiday Mode: Some games have a dynamic menu that changes with the season.

Geographic Flexibility: The Neighborhood changes in every game.

Four-Fingered Hands: Most characters have these.

Dummied Out: Area 51½/A Nameless Field from the Soccer series.

Cross-Dressing Voices: Most boys are voiced by women.

Cousin Oliver: Joey, Samantha, and Arthur.

Likewise, when the camera zooms in on the game (i.e., when someone's at bat or doing penalty kicks), the players look like cartoons again.

Conspicuous CG: When the player sprites were changed to pre-rendered images, the spectators in the background were still 2D drawings.

Commuting on a Bus: Amir, Gretchen, and Stephanie in Backyard Baseball 2007.

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: 13 characters.

Justified if you think about it, since the pros specialize in their respective sports while the neighborhood kids play many different sports.

Celebrity Power: The pros, who are always better than the neighborhood kids.Cash Cow Franchise: This franchise was the cause of Humongous Entertainment making a profit.NFL Backyard Basics handles this by having the present-day pros turn into kids while they're in the Clubhouse.Anachronism Stew: The pros being kids in modern times, and all being around the same age.

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A demo version of Baseball 2001 can be downloaded from Infogrames, and a trial version of Sandlot Sluggers can be downloaded from Atari.

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