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New Xenocider Footage Released By Retro Sumus
Thumbnail Xenocider is a game we've been keeping a close eye on here at the Junkyard, ever since it was first announced by Spanish developer Retro Sumus back in 2015. Initially a Kickstarter-funded Dreamcast...
  By Tom Charnock
Readers Share Their Rare & Unusual Dreamcast Items
Thumbnail A couple of years ago, we the writers of this blog shared our collections with the readership and allowed the internet at large to bask in the fuzzy glow of the weird and wonderful items of Dream...
  By Tom Charnock
Quick Look Video: Alice Dreams Tournament
Thumbnail Some of you out there may have started to receive your copy of successful Kickstarter game Alice Dreams Tournament. We'll have a full review coming soon (well, as soon as all of the Dreamcast Jun...
  By Caleb
Review & Emulation Analysis: Breakers
Thumbnail Until very recently, I'd never heard of Breakers. A game that was solely the preserve of Neo-Geo aficionados - and even then those who tended to walk on the more obscure side of the tracks -...
  By Tom Charnock
Metropolis Street Racer: The Development Diaries
Thumbnail I do occasionally find myself browsing old websites via the Wayback Machine, and they usually tend to be websites linked in some way to the Dreamcast. Whenever I flick through the manual of an old...
  By Tom Charnock
Expanding the Dreamcast Collection Part 5: The Sega System SP
Thumbnail It’s been an interesting journey, and one that I for one have certainly learnt a lot from, but unfortunately this won’t quite be the send off befitting a series of systems that once dominate...
  By The 1 Ross
Video Review: Millennium Racer: Y2K Fighters
Thumbnail At the risk of this becoming the Millennium Racer Junkyard, I've put together a shortish video review of the recently discovered futuristic racing game. Hopefully you'll find the video informative...
  By Tom Charnock
Previously Unknown Dreamcast Game Millennium Racer: Y2K Fighters Discovered
Thumbnail This is pretty damn cool. Ever heard of Millennium Racer: Y2K Fighters? Not many people have. It was developed by Creat Studio and released on the PC back in 1999 and it appears that a Dreamcast po...
  By Tom Charnock
A Very Early Look At Dungeon Ross
Thumbnail Dungeon Ross is a self-titled dungeon crawler for the Dreamcast that was put together in a weekend for Global Game Jam back in January 2017. Created by the two-man team made up of Ross Kilgariff an...
  By Tom Charnock
You Can Still Use Dial-Up To Surf The Internet With A Dreamcast
Thumbnail In recent times much has been written about the Dreamcast's ability to get online with a Raspberry Pi and a few other easily available components. The DreamPi method has single handedly revitalis...
  By Tom Charnock
Dreamcast, GDQ, and Speedrunning
Thumbnail During the past three years, I've biannually destroyed my already terrible sleep cycle due to a certain event: Games Done Quick. GDQ is a fun speedrunning marathon that raises money for two main ch...
  By B# Major General
Xenocider Box Art & Pre-order Poster Revealed
Thumbnail Xenocider is coming, and Retro Sumus is determined to make an impression with its impressive 3D shooter. If you grabbed the demo version in 2016 you'll already know that the game is well worth wait...
  By Tom Charnock
Senile Team Reveals Intrepid Izzy For Dreamcast & PC
Thumbnail Senile Team recently teased us with news of a brand new Dreamcast game in development...and now they've unveiled full details! Intrepid Izzy is a 2D side-scrolling platformer in the style of Nint...
  By Tom Charnock
AGES II: Sega Game Archives Music Arrange Album
Thumbnail When is a Dreamcast game not a Dreamcast game? Why, when it's a music CD of course! AGES II from Japanese studio Woodsoft is just that - it's a music CD full of re-imagined music tracks from classi...
  By Tom Charnock
A Quick Look At Free-DC
Thumbnail As you're no doubt aware, the Dreamcast was served by a plethora of online services depending on the territory. In Europe we got the Dreamarena service; the US got SegaNet and in Japan Dreamcast ow...
  By Tom Charnock
Why Dreamcast?
Thumbnail As popular as this blog may have become in recent years - I still have no idea why people want to read my rambling diatribes about a long-dead games console, by the way - I don't go around in real...
  By Tom Charnock
Senile Team Teases New Dreamcast Game
Thumbnail I can't keep up with all these new Dreamcast releases. First we had the announcement about Rush Rush Rally Reloaded and Breakers et al; and then there's the imminent release of Alice Dreams Tournamen...
  By Tom Charnock