News: Win shooters and guides!

There is a competition going on over at The Dreamcast Junkyard right now. The challenge is to identify 25 Dreamcast games from just looking at the VMU. For someone like me, who never owned an original VMU (I only have third party ones with no screen/buttons), this is absolutely impossible - but I am sure lots of you can enter this competition and have a very good chance at winning:

1st prize: Dux 1.5 + Redux: Dark Matters + The DCJY Ultimate Collectors Guide
2nd prize: Dux 1.5 + The DCJY Ultimate Collectors Guide

There will be two winners of the first prize and three winners of the second prize, so there are five winners all in all. I would say that is pretty good odds if you are up for the challenge!

News: The Dreamcast Junkyard Ultimate Collectors Guide is available as a physical copy

If you are a die hard Dreamcast collector chances are you have come across the wonderful website that is The Dreamcast Junkyard. You might also have looked through the guide to collecting Dreamcast games written by Mike Phelan. It is a guide that lists every game ever released for the system world wide, including the indie titles and even upcoming ones. This guide has now become a real physical thing to hold in your hands for the relatively low price of £10 + £4 in shipping (roughly $20 all in all).

Bear in mind that the guide is not a coffee table kind of book, it is meant to be a tool for collectors. This means there is no bells or whistles. It is pure text, charts and checklists back to back. For a closer look at the guide check out this YouTube video.

If you want to buy a copy then here is a link to their shop.

News: Sega bling for our feet

For 7,500 yen, or roughly $60, you can now get your feet the deluxe package they have been dreaming about for years and years. There are three versions of shoes which include Dreamcast, Saturn and Mega Drive/Genesis. We have all long yearned for some new footwear in just the right retro style, have we not? To show the world that we mean business. Well, not me personally because I rock fairly generic black military style steel-toe boots and have been for the last two

decades. But I know for a fact that there are a lot of sleek sneaker lovers (or what ever this kind of shoe is called, do not ask me, I am too old to understand anything) out there and these shoes should be right up their alley. As long as they like Sega, that is. Anyway, I have digressed. Where was I? Oh, that is right. It does not matter what the answer is to my initial question - I honestly find it hard to come up with any reasons at all as to why anyone would not want to buy at least one

pair of ANIPPON's newly released Sega shoes. They are absolutely gorgeous if you ask me. Feast your eyes on these puppies, listen to the voice of your hearts and go grab your wallets. See you on the block!

News: Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs

Team Saber Rider have bought the license to make a 16-bit gun-and-gun based on the 1987 TV series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. They are aiming for a release on PC, Mac, Linux, 3DS, Wii U, SNES, PC Engine and Dreamcast. Yeah. What a odd and wonderful list, right? The PC Engine version is particularly interesting to me but it is because of the Dreamcast release I am covering this bit of news on VGL. They are running a kickstarter campaign right now. It is nearly funded with four days left to go, so I see no reason as to why this would not make it.


I take for granted that most of my readers fondly remember Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, so I think I speak for all of us when I say "Hurray!".

News: Pier Solar HD remake?

Pretty much exactly two years ago Watermelon gave us a very delayed RPG for Mega Drive/Genesis - which was Pier Solar and the Great Architects. It sold out in notime and demands huge prices nowadays. Now Watermelon is asking for $139 000 over at Kickstarter to produce a remake which will be released on PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox Live Arcade and... Oh yeah, of course, Dreamcast. I hope they get what they ask for because Pier Solar is absolutely worth playing.

News: NEO XYX announced

NG:DEV TEAM is up to mischief once again, this time with a vertical shoot 'em up named NEO XYX. I very much enjoyed both Gunlord and Fast Striker so I have every bit of faith in them delivering another solid shooter. As with all their releases, it's not just a Dreamcast version but a Neo Geo one as well. I for one am getting the Dreamcast version because I could never quite justify getting a Neo Geo in terms of the prices versus the game library. Anyway, I should not digress. In the time being I do not know anything about NEO XYX more than the fact that it is, as I said, a vertical shoot 'em up and contain six stages and six bosses. Here is a brief gameplay teaser.

News: Polyko ported to Dreamcast

The game with the short name Polyko's Super Jelly Bean Quest in the Sketchbook of Illusion has been ported to Dreamcast by the Senile Team (Rush Rush Rally Racing). The price for this project is nothing. It is completely free and can be legally downloaded from Senile Teams homepage along with some cover art so it fits snugly into the gaming shelf.