Sega Extreme Sports: Retrospective
Sega Extreme Sports, released in 2000 and published by Sega in Europe and Japan as part of their “Sega Sports” series, was one of a multitude of titles in an ever-increasingly popular genre on the...
View ArticleRetrospective: UEFA Dream Soccer
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. So goes the age old mantra; and try, try again Silicon Dreams did with its Dreamcast reimagining of the World League Soccer franchise. See, Sega Worldwide...
View ArticleDriving Strikers announced for Dreamcast!
In a rather unexpected announcement, Luke Benstead and David Reichelt have premiered their upcoming homebrew Dreamcast game Driving Strikers to the world, via a short reveal trailer on YouTube.Made...
View ArticleA Blue Stinger Christmas: On a Hello Market Slay Ride
"And when those blue snowflakes start fallingThat's when those blue memories start callingYou'll be doing all rightWith your Dreamcast of whiteBut I'll have a blue, blue, blue, Blue Stinger"- Elvis...
View ArticleThe Dreamcast Junkyard's choicest cuts and hottest takes of 2021
We close our eyes, and the world has turned around again. We close eyes and dream, another year has come and gone. So wrote the talented 16th century poet Allister in his priceless first folio. Ancient...
View ArticleA Dreamcast port of Postal appears!
Back in 2016 Postal developer Running With Scissors released the source code for their blood-soaked isometric shooter. Alongside this release, an appeal was made for a developer to step forward and...
View ArticleXenocider 'next-gen' demo now available
Remember Xenocider? We do - Retro Sumus' excellent Dreamcast shooter burst onto the scene in early 2021 and wowed us with its lovely graphics, challenging gameplay and incredible amount of unlockable...
View ArticleDCJY welcomes Peter Moore
After almost 6 years, our podcast DreamPod has finally reached the magic number of 100 episodes. Every single one of the previous 99 has been a pleasure to produce, but for episode 100 we thought we...
View ArticleVoting is open for The Dreamcast Junkyard Top 200 Dreamcast Games 2022!
Long time readers of The Dreamcast Junkyard may recall that back in 2016 we asked you, the loyal legions of Dreamcast gamers out there, to vote for your favourite titles. The Dreamcast Junkyard 'Top...
View ArticleTwo Dreamcast shooters now playable in English!
We're not even a week into 2022 and we've already received not one, but two English fan translations of Japanese Dreamcast games! This community sure works at a rapid pace. Both of the games are...
View ArticleLet's take a look at SEGA Powered magazine
SEGA Powered is a brand new Sega-focused magazine that was successfully funded on Kickstarter back in 2021. Naturally, several of us here at the Junkyard threw our cash at the campaign when we heard...
View ArticleShadow Gangs Kickstarter re-kicked with lower goal
We recently reported on the promising Shadow Gangs Dreamcast port and its Kickstarter campaign. Though the game is a top quality side scrolling punching simulator, one of the most common concerns we...
View ArticleReview: Ghoul Grind: Night of the Necromancer
The world of indie Dreamcast games has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades. A period of cheap and cheerful, mostly puzzle-orientated titles in the mid-00s was followed by a lengthy...
View ArticleRetrospective: Virtua Striker 2 ver 2000.1
When is a football game not actually a football game? When it's Virtua Striker, of course! The Dreamcast iteration of Virtua Striker 2 was initially released in Japan in 1999, under the slightly odd...
View Article[lock-on] Volume 003 Dreamcast special smashes crowdfunding goal in 6 hours!
[lock-on] from Lost in Cult has established itself as a high quality gaming journal ever since Volume 001 was successfully funded via Kickstarter back in April 2021. Featuring long form features from...
View ArticleIs video of the Sega Spud Dive PR events 'lost media'?
Long time readers of the Junkyard will no doubt be aware of my penchant for the obscure, the esoteric and the forgotten. Naturally, due to my obsession with the Dreamcast, there's something of a Venn...
View ArticleThe hunt for Premier Eleven - the lost Atomiswave soccer title
As we've detailed here in the recent past, the Sammy Atomiswave is a gold mine of interesting and lesser known titles that are now playable on the Dreamcast. This is thanks to talented Dreamcast...
View ArticleDreamcast officially goes Postal this June!
We looked at the beta version of Dan Redfield's excellent Dreamcast port of Postal in the recent past, and decreed it to be about as faithful a recreation of the 1997 PC shooter as we could have hoped....
View ArticleWhere Are They Now? Official UK Dreamcast Magazine's '100+ New Games'
Who remembers the July 2000 issue of Official UK Dreamcast Magazine (Issue 09)? The cover was adorned with its usual demo disc, sporting demos for Resident Evil CODE: Veronica, Tony Hawk’s...
View ArticleThe Dreamcast commercial indie scene enters a 'Golden Age'
We love to feature guest articles here at the Junkyard, and are always keen to hear from readers who would like to submit something for publication. Here, Laurence Goodchild (aka Lozzdude) takes a look...
View Article