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Dreamcast Millennium Cup - The Celebrity Football Competition Lost to Time
Thumbnail I love a bit of footy. I also love the Dreamcast. When the two collide, I sit up and take notice. Indeed, over the years here at the Dreamcast Junkyard, we've pored over the various digital represent...
  By Tom Charnock
The Dreamcast Games We Want Back Online the Most
Thumbnail In the late 1990s, with the bitter taste of the Saturn's commercial flop lingering in their mouth, and the looming presence of a gargantuan new competitor on the scene, the folks at Sega rallied roun...
  By Laurence Goodchild
Dream Disc '24 Dreamcast Game Jam - A Showcase of All 24 Entries!
Thumbnail The entry period for the first ever Dream Disc game jam —a homebrew jam for the Sega Dreamcast— came to an end on January 3rd. Organised by Cypress of PsyOp Studios, and Ross Kilgariff of Orc Fa...
  By Lewis Cox
An Interview with Tetsu "Tez" Okano - the Mastermind behind Cult Dreamcast RPG Segagaga
Thumbnail There isn't a day that goes by in the Sega Dreamcast community where someone doesn't ask when an English fan translation of Hitmaker's 2001 Japan-exclusive Segagaga —the RPG simulation title where...
  By Lewis Cox
Merry 'Castmas! - The Festive Games of the Sega Dreamcast
Thumbnail This time last year, I had almost no time to enjoy the holiday festivities. I was unable to put up a tree or lights, let alone restore holiday cheer to Twin Seeds City. Rather, we were swamped with u...
  By Jet Brian Radio (@VirtuaSchlub)
The Time a Bus Company tried to get Jet Set Radio Banned in the United Kingdom
Thumbnail While modern Sega tends to stick to the straight and narrow (i.e. reboot Sonic every other year, say they'll give us a new Crazy Taxi but only if it's some live service guff), they've certainly had s...
  By Lewis Cox
Ordering a Pizza Online on a Sega Dreamcast in 2024
Thumbnail A few months ago, fellow Junkyard compatriot Harvey Jones notified me of a cool thing he'd seen in the Sega Online Discord. Considering Harvey's online/musical alias is Pizza Hotline, it was no surpr...
  By Lewis Cox
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
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