Backyard Skateboarding

Create-A-Skater or skate as a Backyard Kid

Product Information

Join the Backyard Kids and Andy Macdonald in a quest to win the BackyardUltimate Skatepark!  The Backyard Kids' neighborhood skatepark is in badshape!  Get ready to enter the Backyard Skate Tour and take on pro skaterchallenges in the neighborhood Boardwalk and Castle.  Wild tricks andbonus stuff will keep you skating hard and laughing out out loud!  It'syour turn to try and win the Ultimate Skatepark for your town!


Product Highlights

• Select Level:  Choose a level such as Neighborhood Boardwalk and Castle. As you advance in the game and complete challenges more levels will become available.
• Select Skater:  Choose the Kid that you want to play as. Click on a Kid’s portrait to display background info and skill ratings. Click on the TALK icon to hear the stories that each Kid has to tell!
• Skill Ratings:
  • Air   Overall hang-time and ollie distance
  • Speed  Maximum speed at which the Kid can skate
  • Flip  How fast the Kid can flip the board
  • Spin  How fast the Kid can spin in mid-air
  • Balance   Overall lip manual and rail balance
• Create a Custom Kid:  In the Backyard Skateboarding game you can create your own custom skater. Just click on the custom skater icon (the black silhouette) to get started (see next page for details on customizing skaters).
• Customize Skater:  Change your skater’s appearance board graphics wheels and other options. Play and complete pro level challenges to earn more points for customizing your skater.
• Info:  Enter your skater’s name and choose a nickname birthday theme song and more.
• Looks:  Choose your Kid’s body face skin hair color and hair style.
• Gear:  Customize your skater’s helmet graphics shirt pants shoes and more.
• Board:  Customize your brand of board graphics griptape and wheels.
• Skills:  Customize your Kid’s abilities.
• Tour Summary:  View your skater’s progress through the current Tour. View all of the challenges you’ve played and completed. You can also view your current sponsors and Trick List.
• Tour Book:  View all of the challenges that your skater has completed and how many tokens he or she has collected.
• Trick List:  Check out all of the tricks that your skater has completed and how to perform them.
• Sponsors:  View how many total sponsors have signed your skater. You can also view how many Ultimate Skatepark sponsors have signed your skater.
• Goodies:  You can unlock secret skaters and levels movies equipment and more! Check out how many of the 36 total goodies that your skater has unlocked.

Product Features

• Ride rails pools and crazy loops
• Land amazing power-up tricks
• Take a stroll down memory lane as you look up your high score best trick string and other accomplishments
• Complete challenges to unlock new skaters levels and pro equipment
• Try to win your town a new skatepark
• Choose a level such as Neighborhood Boardwalk and Castle.  As you advance in the game and complete challenges more levels will become available.
• Choose the Kid that you want to play as.  You can click on a Kid's portrait to display background information and skill ratings. You can also click on the Talk icon to hear the stories that each Kid has to tell.
• Some challenges involve collecting a certain number of objects while others involve racing against another skater.
• Throughout each level there are a certain number of tokens that can be collected.

Windows Requirements

• Windows 98 98SE Me 2000 XP or Vista
• Pentium III 600 MHz or higher processor (Pentium III 800MHz recommended)
• 128 MB of RAM for 95 98SE Me 256MB of RAM for 2000 and XP
• 600 MB Free Hard Disk Space
• 8X Speed or faster CD-ROM Drive
• 16MB Windows 98/98SE/2000/XP compatible SVGA video card*
• DirectX version 9.0 (included) or higher)

* Indicates device should be compatible with DirectX version 9.x or higher.