History Trivia / BackyardSports

** ''Basketball'' 's credits list the people who programmed an online mode, suggesting that it would have had online play. ''Football 2002'' also has a screenshot in the help files that replaces "Network" with "On-line", suggesting it was supposed to be this instead of LAN.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Evergreen, the current rights holder of the series, has gone on record stating a re-release of any of the older games is heavily unlikely due to rights issues with the pro players (this wouldn't affect the original ''Baseball'' and ''Soccer'', however, since they didn't feature any pros to begin with). [[note]]When a pro player retires, they are no longer owned by the league and instead become their own entity. Since most of the games, especially the most popular ones, feature pros that have long left their sport, this represents a large majority of the cast and would mean more trouble than it's worth.[[/note]] This means the only way to play any of the old games at this point is to buy them secondhand or obtain them through... ''other'' means. [[HopeSpot However,]] in April 2019, the official Humongous Website/{{Twitter}} [[https://twitter.com/HumongousEnt/status/1119371805787975681 tweeted this image]] of the original ''Junior Sports'' logo.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: The Backyard Kids ''ran'' on this. Nearly all of them were based on kids the developers grew up knowing -- in fact, the entire purpose of the game was that they were meant to represent the kind of kids that you would know in the neighborhood. To top it all off, many of the stories you can listen to from their player cards were actual stories from the staff themselves, or from people the staff knew.
* WordOfSaintPaul: Creator/JenTaylor has said that Sunny Day organized the Backyard Sports League as an outlet to show her (Day's) love of sports.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: The Backyard Kids ''ran'' on this. Nearly all of them were based on kids the developers grew up knowing -- in fact, the entire purpose of the game was that they were meant to represent the kind of kids that you would know in the neighborhood. To top it all off, many of the stories you can listen to from their player cards were actual stories from the staff themselves, or from people the staff knew.

* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Only a few characters are voiced by children, such as Ken Griffey Jr., Jeff Bagwell, Cal Ripken Jr., Chipper Jones, the custom boy, Mark [=McGwire=], Curt Schilling, and Jason Giambi (''Baseball 2001''), Jason Kreis (''Soccer: MLS Edition''), Griffey, Reese Worthington, Pete Wheeler, Stephanie Morgan, and Ichiro Suzuki (''Baseball 2003'').

* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Only a few characters are voiced by children, such as Ken Griffey Jr., Jeff Bagwell, Cal Ripken Jr., Chipper Jones, the custom boy, Mark [=McGwire=], Curt Schilling, and Jason Giambi (''Baseball 2001''), Jason Kreis (''Soccer: MLS Edition''), Griffey, Reese Worthington, Pete Wheeler, Stephanie Morgan, and Ichiro Suzuki (Baseball 2003).

* TalkingToHerself: Creator/LaniMinella plays both announcers in ''Baseball 2003'' and ''Soccer 2004''.

* NamesTheSame:
** Amir Khan is not to be confused with the British-born boxer of the same name.
** An unfortunate case for Dante Robinson who shares his name with one of the murderers of 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale in October 2012.
** Jorge Garcia is also the name of [[Creator/JorgeGarcia the actor]] best known for ''Series/{{Lost}}''.
** Angela Delvecchio shares her name with the murderous antagonist of ''Film/AFriendToDieFor''.

** Angela Delvecchio shares her name with the murderous antagonist of Film/AFriendToDieFor.