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Backyard Football is an American football video game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment.It is the third installment of the Backyard Sports franchise, the first installment of the Backyard Football series, and the first Backyard Sports title to include teams from a major league and real-life sports players, which would become a tradition for almost every other Backyard Sports ...
Backyard Soccer, known in Europe as Backyard Football (PC) [1] or Junior Sports Football (PlayStation) and in Australia as Junior Sports Soccer, is a children's association football video game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment; Infogrames published the PlayStation version.
The series began in late 1997 when Humongous Entertainment, owned by GT Interactive, created the first game in the franchise: Backyard Baseball. [3] Later, GT Interactive was purchased by Infogrames and was renamed as Infogrames, Inc. [4] Infogrames allowed Humongous Entertainment to expand the series, and Humongous later developed more titles such as Backyard Soccer, Backyard Football ...
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Aimed at children ages 5 to 10, [2] the game includes international soccer players such as the Dallas Burn's Jason Kreis and female player Brandi Chastain, but with the added twist that all the MLS and USWNT players are drawn as child caricatures in the game. [2] [3] [4] The game was released for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. [3]
In July 1996, Humongous Entertainment was purchased by GT Interactive for US$76 million. [9] In November 1997, Humongous Entertainment signed a five-year worldwide deal with Nickelodeon to develop games based on the Nick Jr. series, Blue's Clues, making it the first and only time that Humongous has developed games based on a licensed character as opposed to its original characters. [10]