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The Backyard

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This educational game for toddlers explores a clickable backyard to develop skills in expression, mapping, and animal ID.

The Backyard is a 1993 Brøderbund educational game for DOS; the DOS version is the original release, so both years are 1993.


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Platform
MS-DOS
Released
1993
Size
4.55 MB
Version
autorun.bat
Rating
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About The Backyard

The Backyard is an educational software title designed for very young children. Its interactive environment is a single, detailed backyard scene where every visible element responds to a click with either a playful animation or a simple activity.

This title forms part of a trilogy of toddler-focused games, following The Playroom and The Treehouse. The activities within it are built to foster early learning skills. These include recognizing animals, understanding numbers and letters, and connecting words to the facial expressions they represent. Another developmental area supported is the basic interpretation and creation of maps.

The Backyard Screenshots

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Title Screen
Main Game Screen
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