Backyard Baseball ’97 Mobile Release Makes Pablo Portable Today
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Backyard Baseball pressed all the nostalgia buttons when it was revived last fall for PC as Backyard Baseball ’97, a pixel-for-pixel faithful remake of the original game–a challenging project given the revival team didn’t have the game’s original source code. As of today, March 27, it’s available on platforms that didn’t even exist when the game debuted: smartphones and tablets for both iOS and Android.
Backyard Baseball ’97 brings the same experience you might know from PC to smartphones and tablets, featuring touch controls and a few on-screen buttons that replace things like the ESC key that pauses the game on PC. Beyond those minor differences, this is the same experience PC players have access to. Like on PC, it also works with compatible controllers for those who may prefer that method. It’s listed at $5.
