Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Review or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love this...
Jet Set Radio (or as it was known in North America, Jet Grind Radio) came skating onto the scene in the year 2000. Developed by Sega's in-house studio Smilebit, the flagship Dreamcast release saw...
View ArticleNew Dreamcast Compatible Arcade Fight Stick heading to IndieGoGo!
We've seen a lot of new indie hardware teased or released for the Sega Dreamcast in the last few years - such as the VM2 and a number of new controllers - but what with the popularity of fighters on...
View ArticleChristmas DreamPod - Audience Participation Sought by 30 November!
I apologise off the bat for raising the spectre of Christmas when we are barely half way through November. I know some will be dismayed by the ever expanding time and space which this particular...
View ArticleCelebrating 25 Years of the Dreamcast and the Kaiju Monster it Rode in on
Well, shit. It’s been 25 years…or 300 months…or 432,000 minutes. That’s how long it’s been since Godzilla Generations was unleashed in Japan.And the Dreamcast, too, for that matter.In our house, it's...
View ArticleDreamcast Graveyard: Websites We Miss from the Post-Sega Era
While logging into Phantasy Star Online the other night, with my GD-ROM screeching away under the immense pressure of having to load a lobby with three other players, it struck me that my character is...
View ArticleNew Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi Games Announced by Sega!
If you are a Sega enthusiast, I'm sure you are already well aware of the big announcement they made last night at The Game Awards. If you still need filling in, then here's the news: Sega have...
View ArticleTitle Defense: The True Story of Why it Never Came to Dreamcast
Some time after the publication of our article on the lost boxing sim "Title Defense" last year, I was contacted by friend of the Junkyard and all-round Dreamcast super-sleuth PC Wizard. Intrigued by...
View ArticleDCJY welcomes Nick Thorpe
In episode 126 of our podcast, the DreamPod, Kev and I welcome Nick Thorpe - the features editor for the excellent Retro Gamer magazine - to chat all about his career and the brand new issue 254, a...
View ArticleIan Micheal has released a Christmas Collection for Dreamcast!
Cover by The Sega GuruOn the 23rd day of Christmas, Ian Micheal gave to the community... a Christmas collection for the Sega DC.Ever since his work on the Sega Powered demo disc, homebrew...
View ArticleDreamcastic Christmas 2023: Heart-warming Tales from DreamPod Listeners
Ahead of recording episode 125 of the DreamPod, which first aired as part of RadioSEGA’s illustrious Winterfest and is now available in all the regular places, we appealed to our listener base to send...
View ArticleThe Best Dreamcast Merchandise: a Post-Christmas Breakdown
As a group of proudly obsessed Dreamcast fans here at the Junkyard, we don't simply leave our admiration for Sega's 128-bit box of wonders at talking endlessly about the games, hardware or accessories...
View ArticleThe Dreamcast Junkyard's choicest cuts and hottest takes of 2023
Well, here we are again. A whole 12 months since the last time we did one of these yearly roundup articles, and 10 months since I decided to retire from the Junkyard for the sake of my fragile sanity....
View Article6 Games that Scratch the Shenmue Itch
There really isn't anything quite like Shenmue. As most Dreamcast fans know by now, the gameplay of Yu Suzuki's magnum opus, which juxtaposed snail's pace sleuthing around Japanese suburbia with...
View ArticleVanishing Point: The Dreamcast's Secret Ridge Racer
In early January 2001, while most were still nursing hangovers and recovering from eating too many mince pies, Vanishing Point released on both the Dreamcast and PlayStation to little fanfare in what...
View ArticleThe Complete Guide to Commercially Released Dreamcast Indie Games
The fact that we're still blathering on about the Dreamcast some 20 odd years after the console's demise is testament to two things - the fact that we're sad little people still holding on to a mere...
View ArticleThe Top 25 Indie Dreamcast Games 2024 - Voting is Now Open!
It's been eight years since we last went to readers, viewers, listeners and followers of The Dreamcast Junkyard to ask YOU what the best indie games for the Dreamcast are... and what an eight years...
View ArticleHands On with the Retro Fighters StrikerDC Wireless Dreamcast Controller
Retro Fighters have recently released the Wireless update to their StrikerDC “modern gen” Dreamcast controller. We took a look at the original wired version way back in 2020, which is so long ago I...
View ArticleFragmented Almanac: Unique Dreamcast Puzzle Collection goes up for Pre-order!
One of my favourite memories from when I first got involved with The Dreamcast Junkyard happened towards the end of February 2020, when I played the demo for "Reaperi Cycle" in preparation for an...
View ArticleMinecraft-Clone "ClassiCube" now available for Dreamcast - supports Online Play
Do you know Minecraft? No? Have you been living under a block? Joking aside, if you seriously don't know what Minecraft is, then it is a game where you jump around swinging a pickaxe at all different...
View ArticleDreamcast Covers that Go Hard (and Some More that Can Go Straight in the Bin)
Like the greatest album covers in the world, some games make a great impression even when sitting on a shelf. Whilst previews in the media, video trailers and word of mouth are vitally important, it...
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