Backyard Hockey
| Backyard Hockey | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sports |
| Developers | Humongous Entertainment Mistic Software Mega Cat Studios |
| Publishers | Infogrames/Atari Playground Productions |
| Platforms | Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance |
| First release | Backyard Hockey 2002 |
| Latest release | Backyard Hockey '02 November 13, 2025 |
Backyard Hockey is an ice hockey video game series created by Humongous Entertainment that was published by Infogrames/Atari. It is the fifth and last introduced sub-series in the Backyard Sports franchise, although it is not last sport introduced to the franchise. A total of four Backyard Hockey games have been released; the original Backyard Hockey (2002), Backyard Hockey 2005 (2004), Backyard Hockey for Game Boy Advance (2003), and Backyard Hockey for Nintendo DS (2007).
The original and updated computer releases of Backyard Hockey were developed solely by Humongous Entertainment, but the two Hockey games for Nintendo handhelds were co-developed with Mistic Software. The fourth installment on Nintendo DS is regarded to be the first hockey video game released in North America for such platform.
A remastered version of the original Backyard Hockey entitled Backyard Hockey '02 was released on Steam on November 13, 2025; Mega Cat Studios is the remaster's developer, with Playground Productions as the publisher.