Come and see us at Nottingham Video Games Expo and win cool Xeno Crisis swag!
It's been almost four years since The Dreamcast Junkyard last attended a live gaming event, and that is definitely four years too many. It was back in 2018 that we attended Play Expo Blackpool and hung...
View ArticleRetrospective: 90 Minutes: Sega Championship Football
The final rendition of the beautiful game to be released on the Dreamcast, 90 Minutes: Sega Championship Football was a title that many Dreamcast owners - me included - had quiet optimism for. We had...
View ArticleDCJY welcomes The SEGAGuys
The Dreamcast Junkyard DreamPod welcomes The SEGAGuys in the latest episode, as regular hosts Tom and Jaz sit down with James 'The SEGAHolic' and Dan 'The Mega' Driver to discuss a whole load of random...
View ArticleMaximum Speed: A closer look at the Atomiswave Daytona USA clone
Maximum Speed is a white hot racing game that will thrill all your senses. Not my words - the words of whichever advertising guru came up with the guff adorning Maximum Speed's European marketing...
View ArticleDCJY welcomes former SEGA Europe Marketing Director Giles Thomas
In this episode of the DreamPod, regular hosts Tom and Andrew are joined by former SEGA Europe Marketing Director Giles Thomas. During his time at SEGA Europe, Giles oversaw the European launch of the...
View ArticleShow Report: Nottingham Video Games Expo 2022
The weekend of 17 & 18 December 2022 saw the inaugural Nottingham Video Games Expo take place in...er...Nottingham. The city of Nottingham, England for the uninitiated, is the ancestral home of...
View ArticleTitle Defense: Dreamcast's lost boxing sim
Think boxing on the Dreamcast and no doubt your mind will be instantly transported to the cacophonous auditoria of Midway's infamous Ready 2 Rumble; an ebullient Afro Thunder pacing around the ring...
View ArticleVideo Game History Foundation welcomes DCJY
It's not often we get invited to guest on other podcasts, but when we do it's always a pleasure. In this case, those lovely folks at the Video Game History Foundation reached out to us and asked if...
View ArticleTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection lands on Dreamcast!
We recently reported that Dreamcast coding legend Ian Micheal was working on a port of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection for Sega's radical platform. We use the term 'port' very...
View ArticleThe Dreamcast Mini: Hopes and Prospects
Since Nintendo launched their NES Classic to commercial and critical acclaim in 2016, most video game console manufacturers of the '80s and '90s have been stirred to try and reproduce that success,...
View ArticleThe Dreamcast Junkyard's choicest cuts and hottest takes of 2022
Well, another whole year has come and gone, and we're all a little older and a little wiser. All a little bit more wrinkly and decrepit. All a bit more wizened and broken. All a bit more...I think you...
View ArticleGemaboy Zero heads to Dreamcast in 2023!
Taking the prize for the first news story I could be bothered to report on in 2023 (don’t worry, there are plenty more to come - just needed a bit of a break after the festive period!), Nape Games have...
View ArticleFirst Photos of the VM2 Revealed!
In 2022, Dreamcast fans the world over were buzzing at the announcement of a “next-gen” Visual Memory Unit - the VM2. The news even reached the likes of Yahoo! Japan. Created by Chris Diaoglou, who...
View ArticleWant to see a voxel engine running on Dreamcast?
Again I ask: want to see a voxel engine running on Dreamcast? Of course you do. And now you can. See, programmer Luiz Gustavo (aka NaReeZ) has been working on a Dreamcast voxel engine for the past few...
View ArticleReview: Andro Dunos
I did consider labelling this post as a 'retrospective' as opposed to a 'review,' and that's because Andro Dunos is not a new game for the Dreamcast. It's not a new game, period. Indeed, this latest...
View ArticleDeeDee Planet - Newer Beta Version Uncovered and Preserved
In 2021 we reported on the public release of an all but complete build of DeeDee Planet, the quirky and endearing Dreamcast game that was intended to be a spiritual successor to ChuChu Rocket!, which...
View ArticleA Tribute Documentary about D2 Creator Kenji Eno is on the way
A documentary about 90s gaming visionary Kenji Eno is on the way from documentary maker Archipel.For those unaware, Kenji Eno was a maverick game developer and musician who founded WARP game studios....
View ArticleCome Fly(er) With Me - An Exploration of Dreamcast Flyers
For the sake of fitting an awful pun into this article's title, I've decided to call those little bits of paper whose purpose is to crassly shill a product or service, 'flyers'. Around these parts I...
View ArticleThe Typing of the Dead’s Weird and Wonderful Ports
If you have never played The Typing of the Dead, then newsflash: you should. Who would've thought that taking the zombie-splattering action (and beautiful B-Movie voice acting) of The House of the Dead...
View ArticleEnglish Translation Demo of Shiren the Wanderer Gaiden: Asuka Kenzan released!
I have often heard repeated online that the Dreamcast library was lacking when it came to RPGs... well, I guess that's kind of true, especially in the West. While we received standouts like Skies of...
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