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The Backyard Kids are characters in Atari's Backyard Sports series. They live in the Junior Sports Neighborhood, as stated in the first five Backyard Sports games. Here is a full list of them:

Mikey Thomas (has a bad cold)
Ashley Webber (loves tennis like her twin sister Sidney)
Sidney Webber (loves tennis like her twin sister Ashley)
Ronny Dobbs (wants to be a big kid)
Stephanie Morgan (is a baseball fanatic)
Reese Worthington (has asthma, but loves video games)
Sally Dobbs (Ronny's older sister, always bosses people around)
Pablo Sanchez (always speaks Spanish, but is one of the best players in many games)
Tony Delvecchio (always boasts)
Vicki Kawaguchi (loves ballet)
Pete Wheeler (always does things the wrong way)
Maria Luna (loves wearing pink dresses)
Luanne Lui (loves playing with her teddy bear, which is now a backpack)
Marky Dubois (has a frog and does not like socks, shoes, or baths)
Angela Delvecchio (Tony's younger sister, always tries to disprove him)
Dmitri Petrovich (loves calculations)
Gretchen Hasselhoff (talks really fast)
Jocinda Smith (a great athlete, also is one of the best in many games)
Dante Robinson (loves to eat)
Jorge Garcia (does not like getting dirty and is obsessed with the stock market)
Annie Frazier (loves to watch nature)
Kenny Kawaguchi (Vicki's older brother, is in a wheelchair)
Kiesha Phillips (big and strong, always wears a football uniform)
Kimmy Eckman (loves candy, especially chocolate)
Lisa Crocket (is not interested in conversations)
Ricky Johnson (very shy)
Amir Khan (loves heavy metal music, plays drums)
Billy Jean Blackwood (wants to be a supermodel when she grows up)
Achmed Khan (Amir's older brother, is even more into heavy metal than his brother)
Ernie Steele (loves to tell jokes and do imitations)

It has been noted by parents of players of the Backyard games that many of the characters fit sterotypes. For example the Khan brothers represent Bill & Ted and Waynes World-esque wanna-be metalheads. Pete Wheeler is sort of a Forest Gump-ish dumb southern character. Dmitiri Petrovich is a classic poin dexter, while Lisa Crockett is a sterotypical antisocial type, among other personalities in the game. These sterotypes have caused a little bit of controversy among parents, but many find the sterotypes humorous despite the fact that chances are their children do not understand them.

There are some characters that have appeared in the Backyard Sports series of games, like Thor Herring "Lemon Boy", who always has full stats (10/10 in everything) except in Backyard Football 2006. However, they are not Backyard Kids, because they did not have their first appearance in Backyard Baseball (1997). They are neither Backyard Kids nor the various pro stars that have appeared in the games from Backyard Football (1999) onwards. They are just generic kids, and are often unlockable players.

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