Harvest Moon: Back to Nature

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
PlayStation version cover art
Developer(s)	Victor Interactive Software
Publisher(s)	JP: Victor Interactive Software NA/EU: Natsume Inc.
Director(s)	Masayuki Kisaki Teru Kurouta Rouge Kaizuki Magoichi Oritake
Producer(s)	Yasuhiro Wada
Artist(s)	Igusa Matsuyama
Composer(s)	Miyuki Homareda
Series	Story of Seasons
Platform(s)	PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Release	December 16, 1999 PlayStation JP: December 16, 1999 NA: November 22, 2000 EU: January 26, 2001 PlayStation Portable JP: November 23, 2005 NA: July 31, 2007
Genre(s)	Life simulation, Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, known in Japan as Bokujō Monogatari Harvest Moon (牧場物語～ハーベストムーン～, Bokujō Monogatari Hābesuto Mūn), is a video game in the farm simulation series Story of Seasons, developed and published by Victor Interactive Software. It is the first Harvest Moon game for a non-Nintendo console. Characters from Harvest Moon 64 were transferred to be the characters in this game, although with new lifestyles, personalities, and relatives.

A version featuring a female protagonist, Bokujō Monogatari Harvest Moon for Girl (牧場物語～ハーベストムーン～forガール, Bokujō Monogatari Hābesuto Mūn for Gāru), was released in Japan on December 7, 2000. In 2005, Harvest Moon: Back to Nature was coupled with the girl version and ported as Harvest Moon: Boy & Girl, known in Japan as Bokujō Monogatari: Harvest Moon Boy & Girl (牧場物語ハーベストムーン ボーイ＆ガール, Bokujō Monogatari Hābesuto Mūn Bōi & Gāru), for the PlayStation Portable, although the box art and instructions portrayed it as a new game. In 2008, Marvelous Interactive released Harvest Moon: Back to Nature and Bokujō Monogatari Harvest Moon for Girl for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable via the PlayStation Network.^[1][2]

This game was remade as the Game Boy Advance games Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town, both of which would later get a remake of their own for the Nintendo Switch under the name Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town.