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The Making Of: Rez - Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Timeless Masterpiece

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"When we first made this work, it felt like magic".It's almost remarkable to think that Rez is now over 20 years old – especially when you consider it has recently been used to showcase the PSVR2's much-hyped eye-tracking technology. If you look at games …
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The Complete Guide to Commercially Released Dreamcast Indie Games

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 4 months ago

The fact that we're still blathering on about the Dreamcast some 20 odd years after the console's demise is testament to two things - the fact that we're sad little people still holding on to a mere glimmer of nostalgia about our youth as we rapidly approa …
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PlayStation And Dreamcast Veteran Shuji Utsumi Is Now Sega's Western Big Boss

Time Extension about 4 months ago

He's also worked at Disney and Q Entertainment.Sega has announced that Shuji Utsumi has been appointed President/COO and CEO of Sega America and Europe this week (thanks, VGC).Utsumi – whose most recent title in the company was Co-COO, President of Consu …
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Vanishing Point: The Dreamcast's Secret Ridge Racer

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 4 months ago

In early January 2001, while most were still nursing hangovers and recovering from eating too many mince pies, Vanishing Point released on both the Dreamcast and PlayStation to little fanfare in what was an already overcrowded genre. As such, it unfor …
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Hands On: Octopus Arcade Stick - A One-Stop Solution For Fighting Fans

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Dreamcast, Saturn, Switch, PS4... and more?If you're a serious fighting game fan, you'll almost certainly own an arcade stick of some description. Titles like Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown and King of Fighters were always designed to be played in the arc …
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6 Games that Scratch the Shenmue Itch

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

There really isn't anything quite like Shenmue. As most Dreamcast fans know by now, the gameplay of Yu Suzuki's magnum opus, which juxtaposed snail's pace sleuthing around Japanese suburbia with frantic Virtua Fighter ass kicking, was polarising back when …
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Sonic Heroes PS2 Prototype Discovered 20 Years Later

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Take a look at the development of Sonic's first PlayStation game.The video game preservationists Hidden Palace have shared an early PS2 build of Sonic Heroes online, giving a closer look at the development of Sonic's first-ever game on a PlayStation consol …
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11 Unseen Prototypes From Cancelled Vectorman PS2 Project Surface Online

Time Extension about 5 months ago

The game was being developed by Pseudo Interactive.CombyLaurent — a Swiss video game preservationist whose work we've covered in the past — has recently announced that they have managed to archive 11 prototypes of a cancelled Vectorman PS2 game that wo …
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The Dreamcast Junkyard's choicest cuts and hottest takes of 2023

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

Well, here we are again. A whole 12 months since the last time we did one of these yearly roundup articles, and 10 months since I decided to retire from the Junkyard for the sake of my fragile sanity. Going against my better judgement, I thought it would b …
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The Best Dreamcast Merchandise: a Post-Christmas Breakdown

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

As a group of proudly obsessed Dreamcast fans here at the Junkyard, we don't simply leave our admiration for Sega's 128-bit box of wonders at talking endlessly about the games, hardware or accessories that most people associate with the console. For us, th …
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Feature: Playing The CeX Retro Lottery

Time Extension about 5 months ago

You never know what you're gonna get?Buying retro games today usually involves hitting eBay, trawling Facebook Marketplace or visiting one of the tiny handful of dedicated vintage gaming stores around the world – but, if you're in one of the regions wher …
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Dreamcastic Christmas 2023: Heart-warming Tales from DreamPod Listeners

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

Ahead of recording episode 125 of the DreamPod, which first aired as part of RadioSEGA’s illustrious Winterfest and is now available in all the regular places, we appealed to our listener base to send us their festive Dreamcast-related ideas, memories an …
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Ian Micheal has released a Christmas Collection for Dreamcast!

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

Cover by The Sega GuruOn the 23rd day of Christmas, Ian Micheal gave to the community... a Christmas collection for the Sega DC.Ever since his work on the Sega Powered demo disc, homebrew extraordinaire Ian Micheal has really been experimenting with the id …
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Treasure Wants To "Make Something" Next Year

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"...for the first time in a while".Japanese studio Treasure has created some of the finest games of the '90s and '00s, with the likes of Gunstar Heroes, Radiant Silvergun, Guardian Heroes, Ikaruga, Alien Soldier, Sin & Punishment and Gradius V in its b …
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Dreamcast Title 'Rainbow Cotton' Has Been Hiding A NSFW Secret For 23 Years

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"A bit of a, um... fun?".Easter eggs in video games aren't a new thing – they started life right at the dawn of the industry, with Atari's 1980 game Adventure being one of the most notable early examples.However, new secrets are always being discovered …
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Check Out These Sega Dreamcast And Mega Drive Wireless Headphones

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Only available in Japan, sadly.Japanese company Onkyo has just released some wireless earbuds which feature official Sega Dreamcast and Mega Drive branding, we're pleased to reveal.As reported by 4Gamer, the company is launching the earbuds in limited quan …
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DCJY welcomes Nick Thorpe

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

In episode 126 of our podcast, the DreamPod, Kev and I welcome Nick Thorpe - the features editor for the excellent Retro Gamer magazine - to chat all about his career and the brand new issue 254, a Dreamcast special of the mag that releases today on t …
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Title Defense: The True Story of Why it Never Came to Dreamcast

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

Some time after the publication of our article on the lost boxing sim "Title Defense" last year, I was contacted by friend of the Junkyard and all-round Dreamcast super-sleuth PC Wizard. Intrigued by the promise of Title Defense after reading that ver …
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Dreamcast Lightgun Game 'Death Crimson 2' Getting English Fan Translation

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Death Crimson 2 was originally released in 1999.The Japan-exclusive light gun shooter Death Crimson 2, originally released for the Sega Dreamcast, is about to get an English fan translation patch (as spotted by Sega Saturn SHIRO!).The project lead Derek "A …
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Sega Is "Evaluating" A New Virtua Fighter

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"It’s something we’re working on".At this year's Game Awards, Sega delivered the welcome news that it is resurrecting some of its classic franchises, including Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Shinobi on modern-day systems – …
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New Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi Games Announced by Sega!

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

If you are a Sega enthusiast, I'm sure you are already well aware of the big announcement they made last night at The Game Awards. If you still need filling in, then here's the news: Sega have announced new games based on some long-neglected IPs, and much …
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Sega Announces The Return Of Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, And More

Time Extension about 5 months ago

New era! New energy!Sega has officially revealed that it is bringing back a ton of its beloved video game series, including Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Shinobi, and Streets of Rage.Sega announced the development of these titles at last night's G …
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Chit Chat • Fightcade - Online P2P Retrogaming

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Fightcade is an awesome online p2p program using a very nice frontend. Mainly for players of arcade games such as Neo Geo, Naomi, Dreamcast and more. Check it out here and learn how to use it. https://youtu.be/jJAWf5D2qL... Posted by justjamie …
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Dreamcast Graveyard: Websites We Miss from the Post-Sega Era

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 6 months ago

While logging into Phantasy Star Online the other night, with my GD-ROM screeching away under the immense pressure of having to load a lobby with three other players, it struck me that my character is now 18 years old. That’s a bloody long lifespan …
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20 Years After Arsenal, Sega Is Sponsoring A Football Team Again

Time Extension about 6 months ago

LQBT-focused London Falcons get a rainbow Sega logo.Sega has a proud history when it comes to sponsoring football teams. Starting with the 1999-2000 season, Sega's logo famously adorned Arsenal's away kit, making it one of the most iconic shirts in Premier …