Backyard Hockey (series)

"Backyard Hockey" redirects here. For the 2007 Nintendo DS game, see Backyard Hockey (Nintendo DS game).

Backyard Hockey
Genres	Sports
Developers	Humongous Entertainment, Mistic Software
Publishers	Atari, Infogrames
Platforms	Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance
Year of inception	2002
First release	Backyard Hockey 2002

Backyard Hockey is an ice hockey video games series created by Humongous Entertainment and Mistic Software that has published by Atari and Infogrames. It was first released in June 2002 for Microsoft Windows. Additional titles were released for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. A total of four Backyard Hockey games have been released, these include the original Backyard Hockey, Backyard Hockey 2005, Backyard Hockey for Game Boy Advance, and Backyard Hockey for Nintendo DS. Over the different releases Backyard Hockey was developed by only Humongous Entertainment for the original and 2005,^[1]^[2] but was developed by Humongous and Mistic Software for the Game Boy and DS releases.^[3]^[4]

In a similar fashion to other titles in the Backyard Sports series, players create their own teams choosing from more than 30 "neighborhood kids" who each have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Players may also choose from several National Hockey League hockey players as children, some of these players are Steve Yzerman, Mike Modano, and Curtis Joseph.

In the game players control their character in a game of ice hockey. At random times during a game, power ups appear at center ice. Power ups provide help to the team that secures them such as causing all the players on the opposing team to fall over, or super speed. Unique from most ice hockey games, fighting is not allowed in Backyard Hockey and very few penalties are called.

Installments

Title	Year	Platforms
Backyard Hockey	2002	Microsoft Windows
Backyard Hockey	2003	Game Boy Advance
Backyard Hockey 2005	2004	Microsoft Windows
Backyard Hockey	2007	Nintendo DS

References

↑ "Backyard Hockey (Windows)" Mobygames. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr 2014.
↑ "Backyard Hockey 2005 (Windows)" Mobygames. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.
↑ "Backyard Hockey for DS." Gamefaqs. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.
↑ "Backyard Hockey (Game Boy Advance)" Mobygames. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.

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