News
NEWSREVIEWSFEATURESINTERVIEWSTOP 200PODCASTBOOKSABOUT
 
Dreamzone Magazine: First 15 Issues now Digitally Preserved
Thumbnail  Parles-tu français? No, me neither. Languages weren't a strength of mine at school, and despite some derisory attempts to pick up Spanish during adulthood, I remain a stereotypically monolingual B...
  By Laurence Goodchild
Retro Fighters unveil a 6-Button Wireless Fight Controller for the SEGA Dreamcast
Thumbnail
When Retro Fighters' "next gen" Dreamcast controller went to Kickstarter, I recall some of my Junkyard colleagues presuming that it was designed specifically for fighting games. This was due to the...
  By Lewis Cox
Capcom Fighting Collection 2 - Power Stone, Capcom Vs. SNK, and more coming to Modern Consoles with Online Play!
Thumbnail Capcom have just made a lot of SEGA Dreamcast fans very happy. After previously announcing back in June that both Marvel Vs. Capcom and Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 would return this September as part of thei...
  By Lewis Cox
An Interview with Kenji Tosaki: How the SEGA Dreamcast and its Beloved Peripherals Came to Be
Thumbnail One day we realised that The Dreamcast Junkyard account on Twitter (or X, as it is now known...) was followed by none other than Kenji Tosaki, the peripheral development manager at SEGA of Japan from...
  By Lewis Cox
An interview with David Perkinson - Producer of NFL 2K and World Series Baseball on the SEGA Dreamcast
Thumbnail Before 2K Sports, It Was Simply: SEGA Sports.

Some of us like to think that science is apolitical. We like to imagine that global, collaborating scientists choose to ignore the lines in our Apple or...
  By Steven Montani, JD
Shadow Gangs Zero - What We Know So Far... Kickstarter due 1 August
Thumbnail Almost exactly two years ago the Junkyard published my review of Shadow Gangs, a side-scrolling beat ‘em up that was released for the Dreamcast in 2022, hot on the heels of a successful Kickstarter...
  By Laurence Goodchild
Doom 64 Ported to the SEGA Dreamcast!
Thumbnail Released back in 1997, Doom 64 brought a levelled up spin-off of the game-changing PC first-person shooter to the Nintendo 64. Since its release, the game has garnered a cult following, thanks in par...
  By Lewis Cox
Exploring Physics Through Play — Virtua Tennis 2
Thumbnail Virtua Tennis 2 encourages us to be curious about sports-science, through play.

When I play Virtua Tennis 2 in 2024, all I can see is physics. Once considered cutting edge graphics, Virtua Tennis 2...
  By Steven Montani, JD
Farnation: Gameplay Footage Surfaces of Unreleased SEGA Dreamcast MMORPG!
Thumbnail Credit: fuperslizzle"Farnation" is a name that is probably more familiar to the most diehard of SEGA Dreamcast fans. The game's existence was first revealed in August 2000 by GameSpot. The site's st...
  By Lewis Cox
PlayStation Emulation, Silent Hill 3, Metal Slug, New Indies and more on Dreamcast! - Dreamcast News Round-Up July 2024
Thumbnail It's 2024, we’re now into July, and the SEGA Dreamcast is still not dead. Critics are baffled. "It was supposed to have been declared dead in 2001, dammit!" - some PlayStation 2 owner, probably. In...
  By Lewis Cox
You Had One Job! - European Dreamcast Game Box Screw-ups
Thumbnail Since the beginning of time - well, gaming - video games have come in boxes with artwork. The artwork was put there to sell the experience to you, to convince you why the game inside that box was the...
  By Michael Rogers
Dreamcast Gaming on the High Street Stock CEXchange
Thumbnail This article is not endorsed by or sponsored by CeX.

With it being harder and harder to find retro games in the wild, especially PAL Dreamcast titles with an intact case, retro gaming is becoming an...
  By Michael Rogers
The Dreamcast Directory: Websites We Love in 2024
Thumbnail Late last year, in a gratuitous act of procrastination, I authored a piece for the Junkyard that surveyed the hefty range of Dreamcast websites that had sprung up in the console’s “post-Sega” e...
  By Laurence Goodchild