Backyard Football Review

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(More customer reviews)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.)

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Featuring NFL Players As Kids!Product InformationGrab your helmet because it's time to team up with the BackyardKids!The roar of the crowd. The cool autumn air. The mud on your jersey. It'sBackyard Football! Now you'll get a chance to play against your favorite sportsstars. Pick from Steve Young Barry Sanders John Elway and your favorites fromthe Backyard Bunch. Then choose your team logos colors and strategy.Join announcers Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield for some of the wildest footballever! You direct the action as you run pass tackle and kick in an action-packed backyard football game.Play action-packed football games with pint-sized versions of real-life proslike Brett Farve Drew Bledsoe Barry Sanders Randall Cunningham and more! Callthe plays run the routes make tackles and score winning touchdowns. Choosefrom all 31 NFL team names and logos and play an entire 14-game season endingwith the Super Colossal Cereal Bowl.It's the chance of a lifetime to play with the pros right in your own backyard!Product FeaturesKid versions of real-life prosChoose from 31 NFL team names and logsFive-on-five games with instant replay and touchdown dancesSimple point-and-click controlsExciting network multiplayer capabilityTrack game season and lifetime statsWindows RequirementsWindows 95/98/Me/XP or VistaPentium 133MHz32MB of RAM20MB free hard drive space (if you wish to save games in progress)1MB Windows 95/98/Me compatible SVGA video cardWindows 95/98/Me compatible sound cardDirectX version 5.0 or higher (DirectX 8.0 included on game disc)4x speed CD-ROM driveMacintosh Requirements132MHz PowerPCSystem 7.5.5 up to 8.632MB or RAM20MB free (if you wish to save games in progress)4x speed CD-ROM drive

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John Deere North American Farmer Review

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(More customer reviews)Well I was pretty excited to see that John Deere did a sequel to the American Farmer. The original lacked good graphics and got pretty boring after awhile. I was hoping that North American Farmer would be better, sadly I was disappointed.
When I uploaded it I noticed the graphics were a bit better but lacked a true attention to detail. The animals were always hard to see unless you were zoomed way in, the tractor wheels are not round and don't roll (the new equipment wheels do roll)and thier movement was always unnatural. Also, the characters just appeared to be a bunch of un educated hicks. This all remains the same in the sequel. Sure they added a few hard to see animals and you have a few more options on buldings but over all it's more of the same.
I don't want you to get the wrong idea about this, I do like the game but it does have a few issues. The hay, although a neat option is very time consuming and requires alot of attention, it would be nice to be able to automate this since you have to switch impliments constantly, and it looks more like corn growing than hay. The cool part is that somehow it ends up storing hay even though you sell it and makes for a nice bonus, I am sure this is a glitch. You still cannot move the fence (or pastures) past trees which I always found odd and there is no way to get rid of the trees or plant new ones. The game speed went from 1x, 2x, 3x to 1x, 3x, and 5x. I always played the original on 2x, but 3x now is way too fast, I don't know how anyone could keep up and 1x is just too slow. When raking hay, the raking starts in front of the tractor! When baling and you make a turn 1/4 of the next row disappears! I did have one funny part when I tried to unload an impliment from the pole barn. The tractor just went into an endless loop and constantly tried to remove the equipment, then shot across the screen like a bolt of lightening. A pain but funny none the less.
Overall it is pretty disapointing that Bold games didn't take the time to fix alot of the stuff that stunk in the first game and make it more of an adult game rather than a kids game.

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Football Mogul 07 Review

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(More customer reviews)I recently purchased Football Mogul (about a week ago), and have played it off and on. I was hoping for something that resembles the baseball games by the same company. To some extent, I got what I asked for. Somehow though, I have walked away feeling a little cheated. Granted, more time with this game might change my mind, hence the 3 stars instead of 1 or 2. One problem I have with Football Mogul 2008 is the apparent inability to change the rosters in the .csv file. Yes, the game comes with an in-game editor, but it is rather clunky and all you can really do is edit the player's potential based upon what they are projected to do in the current season. Not very helpful. In Baseball Mogul, I could go into the .csv file and change nearly anything I desired with any player that was in the database. I have been unable to locate the place to do this with Football Mogul. Although I went into the .csv file and changed information, the changes did not show up in the game like I had hoped. Another gripe with this game is the lack of updated rosters and ratings. For example, Ricky Williams is, in fact, with the Dolphins in this game (bravo!), but his rating is usually around a 90-96! C'mon, this guy has not even played pro football in almost 3 years, so how can he be one of the best running backs in the game at this point? Also, Trent Green has a high rating as well, which for those of us whom follow the Dolphins and their pathetic season, know that Green is not only horrid and should retire, he is also on the IR for the year. One other mention in this regard is that the Dolphins traded away Chris Chambers many weeks ago, yet he is still on their roster in this game. Considering it was just released about a week ago, one would think that they could have done one final roster check and update before release, eh?
On the positive side, the interface is really pretty easy to use. Things are simple to locate as well, so if you are looking for the team's finances you can just go to the top of the screen and click 'finances' and voila, there they are with a multitude of options at your fingertips.
This game is not too bad, it could have used a little more beefing up in the graphical areas even though it is a text based game. Also, the rosters should have been updated before release, and those of us whom enjoy customizing our players should be given more of an option, whether that is in-game or via utilization of the .csv file. I may add more to this at a later date after more playing time.
Overall = Decent


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Backyard Football 2006 Review

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(More customer reviews)I am the same kid who wrote on 12/5 and I came back with a review. First, the guy who had trouble kicking, you might need a new video card(get the right one!) That's the same answer if you having other problems. Anyways the game great! It was everything like I told you. You can get new fields, plays, and pros! You can also play by clock or points! AND have the choice to play with helmets or without! The problem is the controls are a bit hard. You have to use mouse and keyboard! That's why I gave it a 4. But good game get it!!!!!!!!

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Backyard Soccer (Jewel Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)Bought this for my 8 year old daughter, and she loves it. She and her friends especially love to pick their teams from the bleacher full of kids, and getting to see how they are rated on individual skills. It took us a little bit of time to figure out how to move your player, since the player that you represent changes often, but once you get used to that, it gets easier to play. Overall, we really enjoy our Backyard Soccer game.

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World's Strangest Football Stories (World's Strangest Sports Stories) Review

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(More customer reviews)When I saw this book lying around in my house I thought it would be a boring book but when I started reading it in my English class I found out that it was a really interesting book. It talks about things that happened on football games and also things that didn't happened on football games. I really recommend this book if you have not seen the strangest things that happen at football games. This book is for people that like to laugh at little and that like crazy things.

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Have you heard about the quarterback who threw a successful forward pass -- to himself?Or the NFL star who suffered a career-ending injury -- during the pre-game coin toss?Pigskin fans will love this wacky book packed with the strangest -- but true -- football stories.

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