My Dreamcast Collection...

How do! Lord knows it's been an absolute age since I've posted anything of note on the DCJY and I'm not about to buck that trend now. You'd be right in thinking that as a contributor, I'm about as much use as a chocolate fucking teapot. I did want to do a stellar review of Half Life, which I'm currently right in to, only to remember that our esteemed leader Tomleecee did it ages ago.

However, the chances of me actually playing and reviewing some games that haven't appeared here on the 'Yard, just got a little bit bigger, as for the first time ever, I've actually collected all my Dreamcast games up and put them (very anally) into alphebetical order. You can see them in the shitty picture attached to this post, but even with the latest CIA spying equipment, you'd be fucked if you tried to read the titles on their spines.

So be prepared for me to bore the arse off you with a long and pointless listof all the games I currently own for The Dreamcast. Actually, I say pointless, but it'll be good for insurance purposes if I ever get burgled again and will give me something to crack one off over when I fancy a ham shank...

Are you ready? Well here goes... (Oh, I'll throw in a few cover shots, to break up the monotony and to prevent your retinas imploding, every once in a while ...

PAL Releases:

Alone In The Dark

Bust A Move

Blue Stinger

Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command

Championship Surfer

Chicken Run,

Chu Chu Rocket

Confidential Mission

Crazy Taxi 1 & 2

Daytona USA

Dead Or Alive

Deadly Skies

Deep Fighter

Disney's Dinosaur

Dragon's Blood

Ducati World

Dynamite Cop

18 Wheeler

Ecco

Evil Dead: Hail To The King

F1 World Grand Prix

F335 Challenge; Passione Rossa

Fighting Force 2

Floigan Bros

Fur Fighters

GK: Giant Killers

Grand Theft Auto

Gunbird2

Half Life

Head Hunter

Hidden & Dangerous

House Of The Dead 2

Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000

Jet Set Radio

Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure

Kiss Psycho Circus

Kao The Kangaroo

Looney Toons Space Race

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2

MDK 2

Metropolis Street Racer

Mortal Kombat Gold

NBA Hoopz

NBA Showtime

Outtrigger

Pen Pen Tricelon

Phantasy Star Online

Planet Ring

Plasma Sword

Powerstone 1 & 2

Prince Of Persia: Arabian Nights

Quake III Arena

Rayman 2

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing

Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Resident Evil: Code Veronica

Re-Volt

Sega Bass Fishing

Sega GT

Sega World Wide Soccer 2ooo (Euro Edition)

Sega Rally 2

Shadowman

Shenmue

Shenmue2

Silent Scope

Skies Of Arcadia

Silver Zero

Snow Cross Championship Racing

Soul Calibur

Soul Fighter

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack

South Park Rally

Space Channel 5

Speed Devils

Spiderman

Star Wars Episode One: Jedi Power Battles

Star Wars Demolition

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (I had it after all Caleb!!!)

Stunt GP

Super Runabout

Sword Of The Beserk: Gut's Rage

Tee Off Golf

Tech Romancer

The Grinch

Timestalkers

Tokyo Highway Challenge

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2

Toy Commander

Toy Racer

Trick Style

UEFA Dream Soccer

UEFA Striker

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Unreal Tornament

Urban Chaos

Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense

Virtua Athlete 2K

Virtua Fighter 3Tb

Virtua Striker 2

Virtua Tennis 1 & 2

Vanishing Point

V Rally 2

Wacky Races

Walt Disney World Magical Racing Quest
Wetrix

WWF Attitude

WWF Royal Rumble

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

Wild Metal

Imports:

D2

Death Crimson OX

Godzilla

Ill Bleed

Last Hope

PRO YAKYU TEAM DE ASOBU SERIES

Samba De Amigo

Seaman

Sega Marine Fishing

Sega Smash Pack

Typing Of The Dead

Zombie Revenge

Plus a variety of homebrew, emulators and CDRs (including Propeller Arena Ikaruga, REZ and Rival Schools...)

So there you have it! Are you sleeping yet? Before you tell me, I know, there's a ton of shite games in there, but my Dreamcast collecting was something of an obsession in the glory days of Gamestation...

Now many of these games have never been played so if there's something you'd like me to play or review let me know.... On the other hand I've dipped into quite a few, so if you've ever wondered about any of them, I might be able to tell you if there of any merit!

Hopefully I'll get to play a few hidden gems - point me in the direction of anything thats there that you've loved! Cheers!

More shmupping action on the way...

Tired of every new Dreamcast release being a shmup? Well, I got to admit, it gets a little annoying sometimes, but as long as there are new projects for our console that's a good thing, I guess. To cut to the point, all this talk is because I've just discovered a new shmup being developed for the Dreamcast by the same guys that brought us Last Hope. Remember Last Hope? Neo-Geo quality graphics? Hard as hell? Well, this one is also going to be a horizontal shmup (I prefer vertical ones myself), and it's probably going to be as hard, since the guy admits that it's going to be a "memorizing shooter" (that means, forget reflexes, you need to know exactly where the next enemies will come from or you won't survive), but this time around this is going to be a Dreamcast game and not a Neo-Geo port, and the graphics really show that. Just see for yourself:

Nice, huh? According to the developer (I think this is not really a project by NG:DEV.TEAM, but a side-project from some of its members) DUX will be released as soon as June/July with a price of about 20 euros.

Zero Gunner 2

While I'm preparing my first DCJY-exclusive write-up, Father K suggested that I could repost stuff I had written for my personal blog, the badly titled NebachadnezzaR's Place of Awesomeness, which is a rather great idea since here my posts will have a much broader audience. So, what follows is a copypasta of my ramblings regarding Zero Gunner 2, exactly like you can read on my blog (no changes made). Enjoy:

"After the blast I had while playing Zero Gunner, I couldn't wait to try out its sequel, now on a real console instead of an emulator, so I popped the game in, turned on the Dreamcast, and...well, I liked some things but there's also some stuff that I really hate, so in the end I guess I have mixed feelings about this one.

To start with the good things, this game is beautiful. Really. Sometimes I end up forgetting just how powerful the Dreamcast is, and when I see it in action it blows me away. The textures are very detailed, the models have a great design to them, in that arcade fashion that only the Dreamcast seems to show, and the stages are really unique and impressive.

The gameplay is also very enjoyable for the most part, but the rotation system just fucks it all up. Unlike in the original ZG, where you would first lock onto an enemy and then rotate around him, here there's no lock-on system and you freely rotate your choopper. So far, so good. The problem is in the way this is done. To rotate you have to hold a button (thus stop firing) and then use the d-pad to rotate your ship. Now imagine doing this when all hell is broking loose around you! It's confusing, unintuitive and worse, it will most certainly make you loose lives, because you'll get so disoriented you'll loose any sense of direction and invariably run into enemy fire.



Unfortunately this is necessary, since enemies (and sometimes bosses) come from all directions, and sometimes the screen moves sideways or down instead of up. Shit... To make things worse, although this game offers many difficulty options, even the easiest setting is hard as hell. After two unsuccessful tries where I would always end up running out of credits in the last level, I thought "fuck it" and resorted to my life-saver, the Code Breaker cheat disc. With unlimited lives I eventually was able to beat the fucking game, but I immediately put it back in the shelter, since there's no extra modes to keep you busy, only a replay mode where you watch a previously saved game.

I may seem angry at this game for being so hard, but that's not the case. Hey, Under Defeat it fucking hard, I was never able to beat it, and I still love it. My problem with Zero Gunner 2 is that it's not only hard due to unforgiving enemies, but also due to a fucking control scheme that makes no sense! You don't loose because you suck, you loose because the control scheme to rotate the damn chopper is insanely unintuitive and impractical, and that's basically my major complaint about this game. Of course you can eventually get the hang of it you practice enough, but I doubt it's worth it when the Dreamcast as such an awesome library of shooters.

I would still recommend it to shmup fans, but be prepared for a challenge."

PS - As a bonus here's a picture of my (somewhat) customized Dreamcast. The picture is a little old, and right now the console looks a little different (I won't say exactly what I did to it because you would call me crazy...), so maybe I'll take another photo sometime, if you guys are interested of course.

Welcome Nebachadnezzar!

Lord knows that this site has benefitted from the contribuitions from Caleb, and now I'm inviting the awesome Nebachadnezzar to sew his Dreamcast seed all over the 'Junkyard. (ooer!)

Welcome Nebacha! May we bask in the glory of your Dreamcast knowledge! Oh and BTW, enjoy the video! I'm not sure it's been here before...