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Funding the Junkyard - Patreon and Merch Announcement!
Thumbnail We have one big double whammy update coming your way today: All systems are go on our brand new Patreon, and we have an awesome new range of Dreamcast Junkyard merchandise launching too!We are freque...
  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
Dream Disc '24 Game Jam - More Details and an Interview with the Organisers
Thumbnail On the 23rd of October, the organisers of the Dream Disc ‘24 Game Jam revealed their forthcoming event to the world, and, in the days that have since passed, their announcement has produced quite a...
  By Laurence Goodchild
25 Years of SEGA Dreamcast (EGX London 2024 Panel)
Thumbnail On the 27th of October at EGX London 2024, Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry.biz hosted a panel called "25 Years of SEGA Dreamcast". The panel featured publishing veterans and founders of DC-UK maga...
  By Lewis Cox
Halloween 2024 Compilation released for the SEGA Dreamcast!
Thumbnail Looking for something to do this Hallows Eve? Perennial Dreamcast developer Ian Micheal and Adam Burrell have got you covered with his latest Dreamcast compilation release, especially for Halloween.T...
  By James Harvey
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
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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