Backyard Football '10

Backyard Football '10 from 2009 belongs to the Backyard Sports series by Humongous Entertainment, a studio that first made its name with children's adventure games. The Backyard line was built on a simple idea: big American sports as played by kids in a backyard, with relaxed rules and none of the weight of a simulator.

American football is, paradoxically, a complicated sport for younger players, full of signals, formations and stoppages. The Backyard series boiled it down to picking from a handful of plays followed by fast action, so the fun would not drown in tactical gravy. The brand also traditionally carried a professional league licence, putting child versions of real stars on the backyard field.

In the nineties, Humongous Entertainment ranked among the most respected makers of children's software, and the sports line became its longest-lived legacy, shipping annually in the manner of the big sports brands. The edition bearing the number ten in its name is a late entry, from a period when the series ran mostly on momentum. For European players the series is a window into a purely American phenomenon with no local equivalent.

The card files the record under MS-DOS / PC; by then the series shipped across consoles and computers alike, so the platform field is plausible, though no guarantee of the specific version.

On OldGame.cz you can look over this edition's release year, studio and screenshots on its catalogue card; the record does not offer play from the browser.