Dreamcast Shooter Sturmwind Heading To Nintendo Switch
Another day, another Dreamcast-related shooter pops up on the Nintendo Switch eShop. This time, coming absolutely out of nowhere, it's Duranik's much-loved Sturmwind. Sturmwind hit the Dreamcast way...
View ArticleA Quick Look At Sturmwind - Dreamcast & Switch Comparison
Zero Gunner 2, Ikaruga, Gunbird 2. All games that first appeared - in the home at least - on the Dreamcast, and which have found a new audience on the Nintendo Switch. The latest game to follow this...
View ArticleBook Review: Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works
Full disclosure before I delve betwixt the pages of this Dreamcast-flavoured slab of goodness: I - along with several other members of the Junkyard team - backed Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works on...
View ArticleNew Dreamcast Games Coming In 2020
It's 2020 - hurrah! We made it all the way to another decade as a fully functioning species on this so very fragile planet we call home. But enough about that communist nonsense. You came here to read...
View ArticleRetro Fighters StrikerDC Controller Pre-Orders Open
The best Dreamcast controller the world has ever seen. That's the bold claim made by Retro Fighters of its upcoming StrikerDC controller. Will this hubris come back to bite Retro Fighters on the arse?...
View ArticleUsing Google's Translate App To Play Japanese Dreamcast Games
A few years ago, our man in Japan Ross O'Reilly went to the trouble of researching which Dreamcast games might best be utilised when trying to learn how to speak/read Japanese. And a thoroughly...
View ArticleReal Racer IX: Cancelled Game or Student Assignment?
I was browsing the hellscape of Reddit the other day, looking for something to frustrate me, when I found a rather interesting photo featuring demo footage of an unreleased Dreamcast game called Real...
View ArticleBook Review: Dreamcast: Year One
Full disclosure before I begin this review: I - and other members of the Junkyard team - backed this book on Kickstarter. I was interviewed in the book and also did some fact checking. That said, I...
View ArticleTR Fight Stick Opens 'Dreamcase' Metal Shell Pre-Orders
Cast your mind back to November 2018 and you may recall an article here at the Junkyard about a custom Dreamcast shell being designed by TR Fight Stick. Fast forward to February 2020 and you can now...
View Article5 Dreamcast Racers Which Didn't Quite Make the Podium
There is no shortage of 'best racing games' lists for the Dreamcast - a system which had some of the most critically acclaimed racing games of the early 00’s. Everyone knows just how good Dreamcast...
View ArticleReaperi Cycle Reappears With A Playable Demo
Remember Reaperi Cycle? We covered it back in 2018 and since then it's all been mysteriously quiet. Until now, that is. I won't lie - I thought Reaperi Cycle was nothing more than vapourware. How many...
View ArticleFor Funk’s Sake: A Space Channel 5 VR (Kinda) Review
Let's just rip this Band-Aid off right now: Space Channel 5 VR — developed by Grounding Inc. for the PlayStation VR — is absurdly overpriced and hardly anyone will buy it.I bought the original Space...
View ArticleThis Is A Dreamcast Disc: The Search For The Voice Of Dreamcast
This is a Dreamcast disc and is for use only on a Dreamcast unit. Playing this disc on a Hi-Fi or other audio equipment can cause serious damage to its speakers. Please stop this disc now.If you've...
View ArticleHark! The lost Dreamcast port of Heroes of Might and Magic III could be...
Heroes of Might and Magic III is another one of those PC ports us Dreamcast owners were promised back in the day, but which was then pulled from release lists and chucked into the big wheelie bin in...
View ArticleRetro Surge Games announces new Dreamcast title Summoning Signals
Remember the awesome Reaperi Cycle demo we looked at recently? If not, check it out here. Well, after we were wowed by the clever puzzling elements shown in that game we were quickly brought back down...
View ArticleThe lost Dreamcast port of Heroes of Might and Magic III has been released!
We recently covered the fundraiser that was set up to release the long lost Dreamcast port of Heroes of Might and Magic III for the Dreamcast. If you're not sure what that last sentence even means,...
View ArticleDreamcast Printer Prototype Discovered
Whilst flicking through the second issue of Official Dreamcast Magazine, I noticed on the letters page a keen reader had written in asking if Sega had any plans to release a printer for the Dreamcast...
View ArticleDreamcast Collectors Unite!
If you're reading this blog, there's a good chance that you're a fan of the Dreamcast. I mean, why else would you be here? And as fans of Sega's little 128 bit machine, we have numerous ways of...
View ArticleDreamcast Collector's Unite! Exploring your collections - Part 1
We put out the call to our fellow Dreamcast collectors, and my word, didn't we get a response! We've had such a quantity of replies, it's going to warrant several articles to cover you all - great for...
View ArticleDreamcast Collector's Unite! Exploring your collections - Part 2
In the Dreamcast Junkyard's now 15 year pursuit of all things related to Sega's last console, we've featured many a topic - we've had nostalgic trips down memory lane, a pursuit for the Dreamcast...
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