Trapped on Dreamcast: 10 exclusives that never left
In the dog days of the Dreamcast's reign, it became somewhat obvious and inevitable that Sega would take many of its most beloved franchises and port them to other systems. The pivot into becoming a...
View ArticleThe Dreamcast Junkyard's New Year's Resolutions for 2021
Happy New Year! It's 2021 at last and we can finally put what has been an incredibly tough year for everyone firmly behind us. As is tradition straight after Christmas, New Year's resolutions start...
View ArticleRetrospective: Surf Rocket Racers
Developed by CRI Middleware and released by Crave Entertainment in late 2000 in Europe and early 2001 in the rest of the world, Surf Rocket Racers picked up where Nintendo’s Wave Race 64 left off, and...
View ArticleNeon Genesis Evangelion typing tutor for Dreamcast now has an English...
Neon Genesis Evangelion is considered to be one of the greatest anime series to ever exist. I wouldn't know, because disgracefully, I've never watched it. If you are a fan, you may be excited to know...
View ArticleYou can now watch us on Twitch and shout at us on Discord!
It's 2021 apparently, so we thought we might as well at least attempt to remain relevant and 'down with the kids.' That's the term the kids use right? I wouldn't know, being almost 40 years old and...
View ArticleThe A-Z of Dreamcast Racing Games: Another New Dreamcast Book Releasing in 2021!
I wanted to share with you a personal project that I’ve been working on over the past few weeks behind the scenes, and hope to release this year for the Dreamcast community: a new physical book titled...
View ArticleRetrospective: Stunt GP
Way back in the mists of time, I took a look at the various radio controlled car racing titles on the Dreamcast. It may surprise you that there are no less than three different games featuring such toy...
View ArticleRetrospective: Bang! Gunship Elite
I love a good sci-fi shooter. The massive scope of interstellar wars, huge capital ships blasting the crap out of each other and swarms of nimble little fighters darting between the carnage. It's every...
View ArticleDCJY welcomes DC-UK founder Caspar Field
In the latest episode of our podcast DreamPod, we were lucky enough to be able to (virtually) sit down with the former Deputy Editor of Edge Magazine Caspar Field. Let's be honest though - most of us...
View ArticleEvangelion typing tutor Translation Complete! Taxi 2 and Doraemon Next?
A little over ten days ago, I posted a write up on the Junkyard about a very exciting English translation patch for the rather niché but very cool Neon Genesis Evangelion typing tutor Neon Genesis...
View ArticleReview: Xenocider
Full disclosure: The Dreamcast Junkyard has been reporting on the development of Xenocider pretty much since we learned of its existence, and prior to that we reported on Retro Sumus' previous foray...
View ArticleShenmusings of Ryobots, Niaowu, and Shenmue III's Uncertain Legacy
Ryo Hazuki is an android, right? I’ve suspected it for a while but after finishing Shenmue III recently, I'm going all in on the Ryobot theory. It explains too much not to be canon.Ryo has always been...
View ArticleInterview: Out of Print Archive
Many gamers of a certain age will no doubt recall those halcyon days when the only way to really get your fix of gaming news, was to await the monthly publication of your favourite magazine. The...
View ArticleLost Atomiswave fighter KenJu ported to Dreamcast
The number of Atomiswave games ported to the Dreamcast continues to grow, and one of the latest offerings from developer megavolt85 over at Dreamcast-Talk is one we thought deserved a bit of attention....
View ArticleRetrospective: Q*bert
Even though I started my gaming odyssey back in the late 1980s with an Amstrad CPC 464, there are some mainstays of the retro scene that just never really resonated with me. Whenever I take a cursory...
View ArticleJoshProd announce 5th wave of Dreamcast releases - 8 games incoming! (updated)
[Updated, originally posted September 2020 and updated February 2021] With JoshProd now releasing a video preview of their upcoming games for 2021, we can confidently say that any fears we had about...
View ArticleThe original Rez website has been fully restored
We love a story with a happy ending here at the Junkyard, and this one fits right in with that philosophy. Remember Rez? Of course you do. It's that psychedelic shooter with the wireframes and the...
View ArticleLet's take a look at Shenmue World from Shenmue Dojo
You may recall we featured the upcoming Shenmue World magazine Kickstarter here at the Junkyard in the recent past. Well, the day has arrived. What day is that? The day of Shenmue World's arrival, of...
View ArticleRetrospective: Taxi 2 (French-exclusive Dreamcast title now translated to...
Thanks to the efforts of Derek Pascarella and his team, for the first time in history we can enjoy the obscure French-exclusive Dreamcast title, Taxi 2: The Game, in English. Derek has released the...
View Article5 Dreamcast Fan Translations You May Have Missed
In DreamPod Episode 86, where we discussed what we'd like to see from the Dreamcast scene in 2021, I was quite vocal about my desire to see more English fan translation patches produced for Dreamcast...
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