Backyard Football '99

Playground Productions LLC

About this game

HUDDLE UP FOR BACKYARD FOOTBALL

Backyard Football 1999 is now enhanced to run on modern systems. Whether you're picking Jerry Rice or Barry Sanders for your dream team, rushing with Pete Wheeler, scoring touchdowns with Pablo Sanchez, or enjoying the witty banter of hosts Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield, simple controls let anyone pick up and play football!

GAME MODES

Single Game: With 5 backyard fields and unique weather condition settings, players can pick their team, design their team logos, and play a pick-up game!

Season Mode: Players can draft seven players from the 30 iconic Backyard Sports characters and a collection of legendary pros including Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, John Elway, Dan Marino, Randall Cunningham, Drew Bledsoe and Steve Young to compete against 15 other teams in the Backyard Football League. Each team plays a 14-game season. By the end of the regular season, the 4 division champions and 4 wild card teams enter the Backyard Football League Playoffs to compete for the Super Colossal Cereal Bowl!

EARN CLASSIC POWER UPS

Earn power-ups by completing passes on offense and sacking the opposing QB on defense.

Offensive
• Hocus Pocus – A pass play which results in a receiver teleporting down field.
• Sonic Boom – A run play which causes an earthquake to knock over the opposing team.
• Leap Frog – A run play which causes your running back to leap down field.
• Super Punt – A very powerful punt!

Defensive
• Cough Drop – A play that causes the opponent to fumble when tackled.
• Chameleon – A trick play that results in your team wearing the other team's colors for ultimate confusion.
• Spring Loaded – A play that causes your player to leap over the line of scrimmage to sack the QB.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

At our core, we are fans first – not just of video games, but of the Backyard Sports franchise. Fans have asked for accessible and legal ways to play their original Backyard titles for years, and we are excited to deliver.

Without having access to the source code, there are hard limitations on the experience we can create. However, Backyard Football ‘99 runs well, looks better than ever, and creates a new installation for digital preservation within the Backyard Sports catalog that allows the next generation of fans to fall in love with the game.

Ratings and reviews

Great to have the game on mobile after all these years. I understand that we can't have the NFL logos, but it seems like a big oversight to not include the colors for those teams. In one of the trailers you can see the Broncos orange and blue on players in the game so that feels a little misleading. Hopefully they can patch those colors in for the future. Still a great game just disappointing. Also "Chase Downfield" is a great touch.

Its great to be able to go back and experience Backyard Football again. It seems like the game was just ripped directly off the original disk, and not in a good way. The controls are still clearly designed for someone using a computer mouse, and are not nearly as smooth as I would expect from an app made in 2025.

If you played this as a child, you're going to like it. The only issue I had was the conrtols as it is an emulation of the original game, so it uses the mouse feature. there are two players, but I haven't figured out how to do that. So I give it four stars as I think some people will struggle with controls.

What’s new

Android 15 support
Updated logos:
-Felines
-Bulldozers
-Geckos
-Cheetahs
-Ostriches
-Crabs
-Pickles
-Buffalos
Bug Fixes:
-Fixed a bug where a game is marked as a L in the schedule page when the player achieves a 3-digit point.
-Fixed a bug where players can't switch directly between weather options when coming back from the team bench.