Additional titles were released for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.
[3][4] The fourth installment on Nintendo DS is regarded to be the first hockey video game released in North America for such platform.
[5] A remastered version of the original Backyard Hockey entitled Backyard Hockey '02 is planned to release on Steam; Mega Cat Studios is the remaster's developer, with Playground Productions as the publisher.
[6] 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.
At random times during a game, power ups appear at center ice.