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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
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
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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
Top 12 Disney Games on the Sega Dreamcast
Thumbnail The Sega Dreamcast's short lifespan (relatively speaking) didn't lend itself to a large number of "big" licenses coming to the console. Alongside Sega's own franchises, we received a third-party line...
  By Spaceturnip