The Dreamcast Junkyard DreamPod

DreamPod 32 is here and Tom, Rob and Mike are here to guide you like leviathans of truth and justice through the latest breaking news developments from the world of Dreamcast! Rob’s been buying new Saturn games since his last appearance on the show and Mike reveals his unbridled love for all things Uncharted. Tom discusses how Super Magnetic Neo is actually incredibly cerebral despite the childish...

DreamPod 31: Where bullet heaven quickly becomes bullet hell! Yes, episode 31 is here and your regular hosts Tom, Ross, Mike, Caleb and Aaron are joined by a special guest host in the form of DreamcastHub.com’s Stephen Robinson to discuss a genre that is synonymous with the Dreamcast: shmups. Perhaps the most divisive of all the genres represented by the Dreamcast’s rich and varied library, your h...

Episode 30 of DreamPod has landed, and it’s a NAOMI special! With Tom off on holiday (well, unpacking after his move), the Junkyard’s men in Japan and Australia - Ross and Scott respectively - take over the podcast and discuss the games they’ve been playing in the recent past, and there’s a special guest appearance from Ross’s squeaky chair. Ross moans about the state of gaming on the current gen...

Regular DreamPod hosts Tom and Mike sit down once again to discuss the latest news bursting forth from the Dreamcast community. Ross was also meant to be involved, but a slight technical glitch called ‘British Summer Time’ put paid to that (sorry Ross). Regardless, the intrepid duo plough on to bring you the lowdown on the recent charity event the Junkyard was involved with, and Mike explains why...

The DreamPod returns for episode 28 and it’s back to business as usual. Tom, Caleb, Mike and Ross reconvene to discuss all the most pertinent issues from the world of Dreamcast, and get sidelined along the way (as usual). Tom speaks a little bit about Noiz2sa - a game that was released years ago but which he has only just discovered; while Ross enlightens the team on the wonders of Sega Hard Girls...

Tom and Caleb convene once again to discuss some (mostly) Dreamcast-related topics. What's the best scrolling beat 'em up on the system? Who did the voice over work in Draconus Cult of the Wyrm? What is a Wyrm? These questions and more are tackled with fervent maniacal gusto, while elsewhere Caleb confesses to having never owned an Amiga or a Spectrum, and this leads on to the recent con...

Tom and Mike are joined by Ross, the newest member of the DCJY team. Ross hails from the UK but lives in Japan and so your hosts take the opportunity to discuss some slightly obscure corners of the Dreamcast library. CSK Holdings and their strange Dreamcast/health insurance console editions come up in conversation, as does Tom's obsession with ice hockey games. Mike reveals the additions to t...

Rob, Tom, Mike, Xander and Scott return for another action packed episode of The Dreamcast Junkyard DreamPod. On the show the Scott talks about why he bought 17 copies of recently released Dreamcast game Leona’s Tricky Adventures, Mike calls out the entire fighting game community, Tom reveals how he unveiled yet another cancelled and unseen game from defunct developer Fenris Wolf and Xander talks...

Tom, Rob and Caleb are joined by creator of the DreamPi and Dreamcast Now! service, Luke Benstead. While the team are slightly sidetracked by the price of lesser-known PAL games, and Rob's recently acquired liquid cooled Dreamcast, the main meat of the episode is geared towards Luke's outstanding work getting the system back online without the need for a broadband adapter. With little mo...

Happy New Year! The first DreamPod of 2016 is here as Tom, Caleb, Gaz and Aaron reconvene to talk about the games they played and the gifts they received over the festive period. After the pleasantries have been dealt with, the team once again discuss Project Dream and the news that the initial publicity for the campaign was not handled by the main players involved. Tom then goes on to talk about...

Join Tom for a short, sharp look back at the highs and lows of 2015 on The Dreamcast Junkyard. A slight diversion from the usual episode format, DreamPod 22 is full of thanks to those people who have made the Dreamcast community a great place to be in 2015. Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog , join our community on Discord , follow us on Twitter , like our Fac...

Christmas is here, so join the Dreamcast Junkyard DreamPod team for a festive knees up! Tom, Rob, Aaron and Caleb convene once again to get in amongst the nitty gritty, and are joined by a special guest in the form of a gate-crashing Santa Claus with an incontinent reindeer. If that alone doesn't make you want to tune in to DreamPod 21: Christmascast, how about this: The team discuss their la...

Episode 20 of the Dreamcast Junkyard DreamPod has landed, and boy do we have a show for you! Regular hosts Tom, Rob, Caleb and Aaron are joined by Carlos Oliveros from one of the most exciting independent developers on the Dreamcast - Spanish indie outfit Retro Sumus. The team get down to business from the off, discussing important issues such as Rob’s recent purchase of a Hi-Saturn, Carlos’s acti...

Episode 19 of the world's premier Dreamcast podcast is here. Tom, Caleb and Rob get together once again to discuss the burning issues from the community including: the Nomura Home Trade stock market disc, the strange Gundam Katana dev GD that appeared on eBay, and the best water-based racers on Dreamcast. In this episode, your intrepid hosts also take questions from listeners and Rob admits t...

Regular hosts Tom, Caleb, Scott and Aaron are joined by guest Mike Phelan to discuss the creation of The Dreamcast Junkyard Ultimate Collectors Guide. That's not all this episode has in store though, as your intrepid team swore an ancient oath long ago to bring you entertaining Dreamcast-related news and nonsense, and that oath will never be broken. To this end, marvel as Scott speaks of his...

Tom, Rob and Caleb get together once again to grind joyfully through the latest Dreamcast news. Topics covered in this episode include Rob's appointment as the new Features Editor at T3 Magazine, the awesome response we got from Play Expo Manchester and the weird and wonderful questions we fielded from the general public. Tom picked up both a RetroN 5 and a Neo-Geo CD and Rob was on hand to d...

Tom, Caleb and Rob convene for another episode of the DreamPod, but this episode is different in that there is a glut of new Dreamcast hardware and software to discuss. Volgarr the Viking, Fruit'Y, Saber Rider and Alice Dreams Tournament are discussed up front, while Hucast's Ghost Blade and the distribution issues of said game are tackled too. Tom's views on the DreamConn V2.0 wire...

After being glutted on so much tasty Shenmue goodness in Episode 14, the bulbous and greedy podcast gods demanded but a small DreamPod sacrifice this week, a fact that allowed our intrepid team of pod denizens to escape in record quick time. To the DreamPod's faithful however, be not afraid, as despite the short run time Episode 15 of the DreamPod still contains plenty of juicy Dreamcast good...

DreamPod episode 14 is here folks, and it's a corker. Regular hosts Tom and Rob are joined by YouTuber and Dreamcast aficionado Adam Koralik; and also welcome the voice of Shenmue's Ryo Hazuki, Corey Marshall. In this Shenmue-tastic episode, topics of conversation include how Corey got involved with the Shenmue series and he recounts some tales from the early days of auditioning for the...

Episode 13 of the DreamPod has landed like an overfed goose on the surface of a tranquil pond, as your hosts Rob, Caleb, Scott and Tom straddle the international date line once again to talk about all things Dreamcast from the comfort of their own homes on three different continents. Now the science bit is out of the way, here's what you can expect in this episode: Scott documents the difficu...

Episode 12 of DreamPod has it all. Sort of. Not only does Caleb treat the team to his best 'I can't come to work because I'm sick' voice, but Tom, Gaz and Rob also discuss the finer (and not so fine) points of Metropolis Street Racer; the 'Save Shenmue HD' bandwagon; and the DreamPod's nomination for a UK Podcasters Award. The second half of the episode comprises...

Caleb, Rob and Tom return for episode 11 of the DreamPod. Topics of conversation include: the most competitive local multi-player games on Dreamcast, the phenomenon of having your controller ports stop working (and Tom's slightly unconventional repair method), the DreamConn Bluetooth controller, VGA monitors, and using a light gun on CRT TVs. Caleb also explains what a 'Pizza Roll'...

Tom and Caleb are joined by new Junkyard team member Scott (aka Doc Eggfan) as your intrepid hosts journey into the murky world of the Australian Dreamcast launch. In an episode spanning three continents and three different time zones, other topics of discussion include the Australian Dreamcast advertising campaign, the unused VMU features planned for Headhunter, the benefits of owning five Lindbe...

With a roster big enough to challenge that of The King of Fighters 98, the DreamPod returns for Episode 9 wielding exclusives and authoritative commentary like a barbarian warlord in the midst of battle. Seriously, this pod has it all. From an exploration of some weird Japanese exclusives in What We've Being Playing, through a cheeky discussion about the recently revealed images of the SNES C...

Tom, Rob, Gaz, Xander and Caleb return for the much anticipated Episode 8 of the DreamPod. In what turns out to be a top show, Caleb reports on GameStop's recent expansion into the retro Dreamcast market, Tom discusses the rabbit hole he fell down in his search for the fabled Dreamcast Barber and the whole team answer some great reader questions about Sega's last home console. In additio...