Atari has announced the all new Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers for the XBox360 and the Nintendo Wii. Â Sandlot Sluggers, developed by HB Studios, is a completely new take on a longtime favorite franchise with all-new features, updated graphics, enhanced gameplay, and extensive options that will keep players and gamers alike enthusiastically entertained. Â Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers introduces players to nine new captains with vibrant personalities and unique strengths and weaknesses. Â Tony Gianni Delvecchio, Keisha Monet Phillips, and Pablo Ramon Sanchez are just three of the Sandlot Sluggers with the skills to make the big play.
“Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers is a big evolution for the number one kids sports videogame brand with a whole host of fun, new features while keeping true to the classic rules of the sport,” says Jim Wilson, President and CEO of Atari, Inc. Â ”With fun comedic scenarios, cool and imaginative power-ups, mini-games, your favorite characters and the all new story mode, the overall gameplay experience is sure to entertain kids and their friends over and over again.”

