Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home
Platforms: PlayStation 2 · XboxGenres: Genres · Action · Sports · 3rd-person (Other) · Wrestling · Licensed
Wrestling need not be limited to a ring and bare arms. In Backyard Wrestling you can use bricks, tables and anything else found within range - nothing in the environment is statically painted-on. These objects are incorporated into many surprising...
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Cast & Crew · 187 people
- Kevin Gill· Original Concept, Lead Designer, Talk Show Sequences Written and Directed by, Senior Product Manager, Soundtrack Supervision and Licensing
- Rob Dyer· Original Concept, Special Thanks
- Christine Hsu· CEO
- Theresa Chang· Operations Director
- James Maxwell· Studio Director, Additional Voices
- David Ollman· Technical Director
- Allen Fernandez· Art Director
- Edwin DeNicholas· Assistant Producer
- Sam Baker· Programming Leads
- James Guintu· Programming Leads
- Paul N. Stapley· Programming Leads
- Dimcho Balev· Programming
- Moumine Ballo· Programming
- Peter Jefferies· Programming
- Benjamin Kutcher· Programming
- Eitan Levy· Programming, Additional Voices
- Ed Ma· Programming
- Krassimir Simeonov· Programming, Additional Voices
- Romalis Taylor· Programming
- Ian Bullard· Additional Programming
- David Frenkel· Additional Programming
- Yong Li· Additional Programming
- Mark Miller· Additional Programming
- Jon Evans· Art Leads
- Allan Hayburn· Art Leads
- Wendy Davis· Art
- Jason Maynard· Art
- Timothy McGrath· Art
- Richie Romero· Art
- Martin Kilner· Additional Art
- Tom McGuire· Additional Art
- Mark Lappin· Additional Art
- Ellis Goodson· Additional Art
- Joel Payne· Additional Art
- Louis Garcia· Additional Art
- Troy Adam· Additional Special FX
- Mark Acero· Design
- Michael Bilodeau· Design
- Derek Daniels· Design
- Omar Kendall· Design
- Bill McDonald· Design
- Eric Williams· Design
- Cory Barlog· Animation Lead
- James Che· Animation
- Sean Gilley· Animation
- William Lykke· Animation
- Elaina Scott· Animation
- Bruno Velazquez· Animation, Additional Voices
- Joshua Been· Animation, Additional Voices
- Abigail Goldsmith· Additional Animation
- Beth Sleven· Additional Animation
- Patrick Strand· Additional Animation
- Todd Piperi· Sound Design, Additional Voices
- Sarah Wulfeck· Additional Voices
- michael carr· Additional Voices
- Tommy Ho· QA
- Jennifer Bullard· Assets Manager
- Jeff Hilbert· Special Thanks
- Kristin Burbidge· Special Thanks
- Laura Daniele Romero· Team Special Thanks
- Jack Baker· Team Special Thanks
- Greg Richardson· SR. VP Development
- Paul Grace· VP of External Development
- Mike Schmitt· Producer, Talk Show Sequences Written and Directed by
- Kelly Turner· Executive Producer
- Paul Baldwin· VP marketing
- Chip Blundell· Marketing Director
- Michael Minson· Operations
- Gregory Wu· Operations
- Brian M. King· Production Operations manager, Product Submissions Manager
- Michelle Seebach Curran· PR Manager
- Kjell Vistad· PR Specialist
- Wyman Jung· Marketing Coordinator
- Kim Pendleton· Channel Marketing Manager
- Janty Sumimoto· Channel Coordinator
- Yasuto Suga· We Site Design
- Robert Fitzpatrick· Web Support
- Julie Leibowitz· Graphic Design
- Joshua Schwarz· Video Editing
- Ralph Ortiz· Product Test Coordinator
- Daniel Franklin· Asst. Product Test Coordinators
- Anthony Yuson· Asst. Product Test Coordinators
- Kathy Schoback· Director of Product Operations
- Michael R. Kelly· QA Manager
- Colby McCracken· Asst. QA Manager
- T. Scott Holbert· Customer Support Supervisor
- Nicole Ferrara· Test Team
- Matthew Kagle· Test Team
- Mathew Ian Stasukevich· Test Team
- Patrick Goodspeed· Test Team
- Jordan Romaidis· Test Team
- Michael P. Gonos· Test Team
- Julian Mehlfeld· Test Team
- Darren Krommenhock· Test Team
- Kip Ernst· Test Team
- Erik Kennedy· Test Team
- Elvin Deguzman· Test Team
- Kari Hattner· Test Team
- Stephen Cavoretto· Test Team
- Galen Laws· Hardware Control Technician
- Mike McGarvey· Special Thanks
- Houston Curtis· Special Thanks
- Rick Mahr· Special Thanks
- john miller· Special Thanks
- Doug Church· Special Thanks
- Lucy Kaulback· Special Thanks
- Barbara Kenngott· Special Thanks
- Matt Gorman· Special Thanks
- Kevin Weston· Special Thanks
- Malachi Boyle· Special Thanks
- Christian Chatterjee· Special Thanks
- Robert Nesler· Special Thanks
- Adrienne Perry· Special Thanks
- Renee Pletka· Special Thanks
- Matt Knoles· Special Thanks
- Denny Chiu· Special Thanks
- James Bartolomei· Special Thanks
- Paula Cook· Special Thanks
- dan johnson· Special Thanks
- Mike Orenich· Special Thanks
- Warren Spector· Special Thanks
- Tom Shoenhair· Special Thanks
- Shelley Porter· Special Thanks
- Adam Braswell· Special Thanks
- Roderick van Gelder· Special Thanks
- Tyson Caldwell· Special Thanks
- Josh Neuman· Special Thanks
- Julian Duff· Special Thanks
- Jonathan Daniel· Special Thanks
- Bob McLynn· Special Thanks
- Joe Bruce· Special Thanks
- Joey Ustler· Special Thanks
- Alex Abbiss· Special Thanks
- Rudy Hill· Special Thanks
- Carmen Liu· Special Thanks
- Trevor Silmser· Special Thanks
- Andrew W.K.· Special Thanks
- Lars Fredrickson· Special Thanks
- Tim Armstrong· Special Thanks
- Jon Rosner· Special Thanks
- David M. Ferreria· Special Thanks
- Randy Stukes· Special Thanks
- Abby Lin· Special Thanks
- Mariola Kalinska· Special Thanks
- Neil McCaffrey· Special Thanks
- John Dudeck· Special Thanks
- Billy Ostermann· Special Thanks
- Lance Williams· Special Thanks
- Scottie D.· Special Thanks
- Sam Tehrani· Special Thanks
- Jake S. Hughes· Special Thanks
- Carol Ann Hanshaw· Special Thanks
- Lani Minella· Special Thanks
- Keith Arem· Special Thanks
- Lauren Hickey· Special Thanks
- Annie Meltzer· Special Thanks
- Luke Valentine· Producer
- Ed Bainbridge· Executive Producer
- Simon Wells· Product Manager
- Mark Allen· PR Manager
- Roxana Daneshmand· Assistant PR Manager
- Flavia Timiani-Dean· Group Localisation Manager
- Emma Timms· Localisation Manager
- Andrew Cockell· Creative Manager
- Natascha Steyn· Senior Designer
- Amanda Holmes· Designer
- Philippa Pratley· Designer
- Chris Rowley· QA Manager
- Ghulam Khan· Assistant QA Manager
- Linus Dominique· PTC
- Jonathon Redington· Assistant PTC
- Marco Vernetti· QA Localisation Supervisor
- Iain Willows· QA Localisation PTC
- Jason Walker· Mastering and Compatibility Coordinator
- Phil Spencer· Mastering Technician
- Patrick Cowan· Special Thanks
- David Rose· Special Thanks
- john davis· Special Thanks
- Ric Williams· Special Thanks
- Carolyn London· Special Thanks
- Anita-Lynne Henderson· Special Thanks
- Louise Fisher· Special Thanks
- Paul Sheppard· Special Thanks
- Lee Briggs· Special Thanks
- Alex Cox· Special Thanks
- John Ree· Special Thanks
- Ray Mullen· Special Thanks
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