They're still making GameCube games? Apparently so. And even if you don't own Nintendo's last-generation, last place game system (odds are), Backyard Sports Baseball 2007 for GameCube will play on your Wii just as well... but that's not necessarily a good thing. Graphics are cute but chunky and blasé by any generation's standards. Of course, the game is more about low-key whimsy for unassuming tots anyway -- at a nice low price that reflects as much... could be lower, though.

As you can surmise by the title, Backyard Baseball is sub-sub-farm-league-Jr.-discards baseball as played by big-headed little kids (and a few mini-me MLB Pros) in variety of Anytown sandlots. Gameplay is easy going enough, but the mechanics of it all have been dumbed-down so deeply that it's actually an insult (as in "bunt much? Okay, you win"). The commentator phones in his commentary and, worse, reads from the wrong script -- one that never, ever, references the word "continuity." Controls are sluggish but gameplay is so slow you'll most likely fall asleep before you notice.

Kids who are already playing baseball in real life will notice how sloppy Backyard Baseball is, but a tad younger than that (like, 5?) and it's a serviceable age-old virtual pastime on the cheap, nothing more.