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The original source code for Backyard Baseball is long gone. Mega Cat Studios remastered the game anyway.
Backyard Baseball 1997 is back in all of its nostalgic glory, sliding onto Steam like Pablo Sanchez when he steals a base. But before Mega Cat Studios
Playground Productions, a children’s media company, scored the rights to the Backyard Sports games, which were originally put out by Humongous Entertainment for Windows PCs. He sifted through the materials with Luke Usher, an engineer who specializes in emulators (programs that allow computers or other devices to imitate video game consoles, like an iPhone app that lets you play Pokémon). Simon was able to modify assets and scripts from Backyard Baseball using ScummVM, an open source interpreter of the game engine (the programmer behind the 2001 software, Ludvig Strigeus, went on to become one of Spotify’s first developers).
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