Backyard Football is a series of video games for various systems. Currently all the games in the series have been developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari

Atari

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. It is one of several sub-series in the Backyard Sports series, and is the first to feature professional players as kids, examples being Steve Young and Barry Sanders

Barry Sanders

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Backyard Football attempts to recreate the experience of playing American football

American football

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 as children.

In one of Chuck Downfield's remarks before the game he tries to remember when he played for either the Ravensdale Roughriders or The Ravensdale Rough Riders. A spoof of a time where the Canadian Football League had two teams with almost identical names: the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Ottawa Rough Riders.

The cover athletes have been: 1999 Steve Young, 2002 Drew Bledsoe

Drew Bledsoe

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, 2003 Donovan McNabb

Donovan McNabb

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, 2004 Jeff Garcia

Jeff Garcia

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, 2006 Daunte Culpepper

Daunte Culpepper

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, 2007 Ben Roethlisberger

Ben Roethlisberger

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, 2008 and 2009 Tom Brady

Tom Brady

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, 2010 Frank Gore

Frank Gore

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, Eli Manning

Eli Manning

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, Peyton Manning

Peyton Manning

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, Adrian Peterson, Kurt Warner

Kurt Warner

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, and Jason Witten

Jason Witten

Christopher Jason Witten is an American football tight end who plays for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Tennessee....

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Installments

Title	Year	Platforms
Backyard Football Backyard Football (1999 video game) Backyard Football is a football video game released by Humongous Entertainment in 1999. The game was the third Backyard game released by Humongous Entertainment, preceded by Backyard Soccer and Backyard Baseball...	1999	Macintosh Macintosh The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a... , Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Backyard Football 2002 Backyard Football 2002 Backyard Football 2002 is a American football game developed by Humongous Inc. in which one can play as their favorite National Football League stars as kids. The goal of the game is to lead a team to Cereal Bowl glory....	2001	Macintosh, Windows
Backyard Football 2003	2002	Game Boy Advance Game Boy Advance The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China... , Nintendo GameCube Nintendo GameCube The , officially abbreviated to NGC in Japan and GCN in other regions, is a sixth generation video game console released by Nintendo on September 15, 2001 in Japan, November 18, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia...
Backyard Football 2004	2003	Windows
Backyard Football 2005	2005	PlayStation 2 PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
Backyard Football 2006	2005	Game Boy Advance, Windows
Backyard Football 2007	2006	Game Boy Advance
Backyard Football '08	2007	Nintendo DS Nintendo DS The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP... , PlayStation 2, Wii Wii The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others... , Windows
Backyard Football '09 Backyard Football '09 Backyard Football is a sports game that was released on October 21, 2008. This is the eighth iteration of the Backyard Football game from the Backyard Sports series. The cover athlete is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots....	2008	Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows
Backyard Football '10 Backyard Football '10 Backyard Football '10 is a sports game released for PlayStation 2, Wii and Xbox 360. It was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. This is the ninth iteration of the Backyard Football games from the Backyard Sports series...	2009	PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360 Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush	2010	PC Personal computer A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator... , Nintendo DS Nintendo DS The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP... , Wii Wii The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others... , Xbox 360 Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

External links

• Backyard Football 2008
• Backyard Football 2007
• Backyard Football 2004