  
Join the Backyard Kids and Andy Macdonald in a quest to win the Backyard
Ultimate Skatepark! The Backyard Kids' neighborhood skatepark is in bad
shape! Get ready to enter the Backyard Skate Tour and take on pro skater
challenges in the neighborhood, Boardwalk and Castle. Wild tricks and
bonus stuff will keep you skating hard and laughing out out loud! It's
your turn to try and win the Ultimate Skatepark for your town!
- 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.
- 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 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP
- 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)
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