In Search Of The Barber
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 The various Dreamcast advertising campaigns hold a certain fascination for me. The It's Thinking and Mr Sega/Yukawa campaigns from the US and Japan respectively were massively successful and we've...
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Pictures Speak A Thousand Words
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 Yes, we've already posted this on Facebook and Twitter but it seems a shame not to post it here too. Created with VMU tool, some people have misconstrued this to mean that we think the recently-ann...
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Praying In Yamanose
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 Thanks to a mischievous little Tweet from Shenmue creator Yu
Suzuki yesterday depicting a forklift outside of the E3 Expo the Internet
promptly broke.
And it wasn't the first time.
Look what...
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A Guilty Pleasure
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 If you are a regular visitor to the Junkyard you might have noticed that I rather like the genre of versus fighter. I love its immediacy, its shock factor, its brutal disregard to conform and evolv...
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The Madness Of The SEGA Spud Dive
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 Sega's various Dreamcast advertising campaigns are well documented here at the 'Yard. We've looked extensively at the efforts of the Japanese, American and European arms of the company to push the...
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Whitening A Dreamcast Without Retr0brite
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 A yellowing Dreamcast is a sad sight indeed. Its once gleaming white shell turned a grimy shade of mustard, a reminder of the fun that it has given to countless gamers over the years. Tired, worn o...
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Parental Guidance
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 Nowadays it seems that having a PEGI 18/Mature/Adults Only sticker plastered on the front of a game box is just par for the course. Stuff like Grand Theft Auto V, The Last Of Us and even Killzone a...
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Official UK Dreamcast Magazine: Demo Editions
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 It's pretty much standard practice for a console to have it's own officially-licensed print magazine, and the Dreamcast was no different. The Official UK Dreamcast Magazine is well known for it's m...
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The Bugs Of MSR
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 I make no secret that Metropolis Street Racer is one of my favourite racing games. Sure, I've been pouring hours into Driveclub over the last few months, but no game helped me hone my virtual racin...
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Top 5 Games That I Would Play If I Were Stuck on a Desert Island
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 I'm sure you've seen it before. The "what X would you take if you were stuck on a desert island?" or "What X would you Y if that was the only thing you could Y?" Or something of the sort. Those sil...
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Defense Commander - Dreamcast Tech Demo
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 There are quite a few Dreamcast tech demo videos and images knocking around on the internet - from the Irimajiri 'floating head' and Tower of Babel videos to the less well-known Future City sequenc...
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BBC News: The Unexpected Archive
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 The BBC News website is a service I use on a daily basis - indeed it's usually my first port of call if I want to read the news while I drink my coffee in the morning. Interestingly though, it's al...
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Throwing Sticks In Rivers
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 Why did the Sega Dreamcast fail? It's an interesting and popular question that, in light of Sega's current existence as a sort of undead shadow of its former glory, is never too far removed from...
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Guest Article: Why I Hate The Dreamcast
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 The Dreamcast Junkyard is, as the name suggests, all about the Dreamcast. While we do tend to focus on some fairly obscure and largely forgotten aspects of the console's criminally brief lifespan, on...
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The Stars My Destination
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 Space. The final frontier. The immortal words of many a commanding officer of the Starship Enterprise. As a species, we have pretty much conquered the surface of our homeworld so why not cast our...
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