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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 26/09/2026

Castlevania turns 40 years old today! The first game was released September 26th, 1986 for the Famicon Disk System.

Cover art for the 1986 Famicon Disk System release of Akumajō Dracula, the Japanese version of Castlevania. It shows Simon Belmont viewed from behind, brandishing a whip. He stands in front of a looming castle, with Dracula's grinning face in the sky.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 01/09/2026

Castle Wolfenstein was released for the Apple II in 1981 this month, making the Nazi-wrecking series 45 years old.

A photo of the manual and game disk for Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple II, released in September 1981. The cover of the manual shows a black and white illustration of a soldier in World War II uniform running away from a German castle.

A screenshot from Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple II, released in 1981, with primitive videogame graphics. The player character is a prisoner in green. A German soldier stands on a platform above.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 26/06/2026

Titan Quest came out 20 years ago today. I put a lot of hours into this game. I know a few newer expansions came out since 2017, but I haven't played them -- I heard mixed reviews about the new expansions. The base game was a lot of fun though.

Cover art for Titan Quest, showing a Greek-styled hero battling a four-headed hydra.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 11/06/2026

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was released in North America for the Gameboy Advance 25 years ago today. I can't say it's one of my favorite games in the series, but it has its charms. The card magic system was interesting.

A screenshot from Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. Three vampire hunters confront Dracula and woman in a red dress in a gothic throne room.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 27/05/2026

Dragon Quest was released for the Famicon on this day in 1986. It wouldn't see a US release until 1989. This version uses a password system to save progress. All characters, including the Hero, face forwards at all times -- directional sprites weren't added until the NES version.

A Japanese Famicon game cart for Dragon Quest, released in 1986. It is a black cart with a sticker showing a cartoon warrior in blue armor with a sword and shield fighting a dragon.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 27/03/2026

That's because hammerhead shark populations have declined by 80-90% since 1990. So many amazing animals aren't talked about much anymore because their populations have declined so much that most people never encounter one.

A screenshot of an X post that says "Nobody fell off harder than the hammerhead shark. Was a top shark for me as a kid and now completely obsolete in media and conversation."

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 24/03/2026

Thrift store finds today. All three in a $1 grab bag of toys.

A plush Pikachu, plush Raichu, and plush Mewtwo from Pokémon sitting on a car dash.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 23/03/2026

This week's streams: 🚀 Super Mario RPG on Wednesday at 7 pm EST 🚀 Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin on Friday at 7 pm EST 🚀 Alba: A Wildlife Adventure on Saturday at 10 am EST

A livestream schedule for Wobblerocket. Wobble is streaming Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars on Wednesday at 7 pm EST. He is streaming Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin on Friday at 7pm EST. He is streaming Alba: A Wildlife Adventure on Saturday at 10 am EST.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 22/03/2026

I'm playing with a hardmode modded Community Center bundles mod. Every bundle is like this -- hundreds of iridium-quality items required for completion. It's a pretty interesting challenge, requiring the addition of other mods to help you consistently acquire iridium items.

A screenshot from Stardew Valley showing the Vegas Hard Bundle Scavenger Hunt mod, which replaces the necessary crops for the Sumnmer Crops bundle with hundreds of iridium crops.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 20/03/2026

Hey friendos, are we friends on Steam? If not, let's be.

A Steam friend code for Wobblerocket. The code is 83259196

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 20/03/2026

Stardew Valley with 500 mods gets a bit crowded...

A screenshot from Stardew Valley. 19 NPCs are crowded into Pierre's shop for aerobics class.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 13/03/2026

Had to cut stream short after about an hour. The minecart sequence in Super Mario RPG is a big trigger for my photosensitivity. I kinda figured it might happen. Mode-7 graphics always do a number on me and this one is particularly troublesome. But we got the next Star Piece, so we made progress!

A screenshot from Super Mario RPG for the SNES, showing Mario riding a Minecart using the SNES's Mode-7 graphics to simulate a 3D environment.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 13/03/2026

I stared at this for 10 minutes going "what the hell is Rillgokrad" before I realized what it said. 😂

A handwritten text saying Ridley & Kraid statues.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 13/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

A screenshot from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES, with the player trying to navigate through a terribly dangerous underwater area.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 11/03/2026

No stream tonight, but this is what we have coming up this weekend. All streams on my Youtube channel! 🚀 Super Mario RPG (SNES) - Friday @ 7 pm EST 🚀 Alba: A Wildlife Adventure - Saturday @ 10 am EST 🚀 Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Sunday @ 7 pm EST

A stream schedule for Wobblerocket. This Friday at 7pm EST, he is playing Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. On Saturday at 10 am EST, he is playing Alba: A Wildlife Adventure. On Sunday at 7 pm EST, he is playing Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 11/03/2026

Joshua Kobza earns $14.5 million in annual compensation. That's 658 times more than the wages of Burger King's lowest paid employees.

A lame Burger King ad about which overpaid CEO takes bigger bites of their fast food burgers, while those CEOs earn hundreds of times more than their workers.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 09/03/2026

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was released for the SNES 30 years ago today (in Japan -- a NA release came a few months later). As a kid, I remember thinking that an RPG was a weird choice for the Mario franchise, but it was (and is) an absolutely amazing game.

Cover art for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super Nintendo. It shows Mario, Princess Peach, and Bowser standing in front of a castle impaled by a giant sword.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 09/03/2026

I woke up this morning and this little shit had broken into the trash can because there was an empty potato salad container in it.

A completely innocent looking calico cat on a cat tower.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 08/03/2026

Caught a handful of new Pokémon today. I think this guy is my favorite.

A screenshot from Pokémon GO. A Scorbunny has been caught. It looks like a cartoony rabbit with red tips on its ears.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 06/03/2026

Tales of Phantasia received a North American release for the Gameboy Advance 20 years ago today. It was the first official English port of the game (although unofficial fan translations of the original Super Famicon rom were available for some time prior). Great game.

A screenshot from Tales of Phantasia for the Gameboy Advance. Three party members are fighting two falcons. Cress, a warrior with a sword and shield, is leaping to strike the birds, while Mint, a female priest, and Chester, an archer, look on.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 06/03/2026

Getting in a little Pokémon GO while I wait on the credit union to open. These two have always been some of my favorites.

A screenshot from Pokémon GO. An Oshawott, a small blue and white otter-like Pokémon has been caught.

A screenshot from Pokémon GO. A Zigzagoon, a fluffy racoon-like Pokémon has been caught.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 05/03/2026

Artwork of Castlevania's Dracula from Konami Wai Wai World, a 1988 game book released by Konami featuring some of the characters from its videogames.

A black and white illustration of Dracula. He hovers slightly off the ground, holding his cloak around him, and is shown cloaked in mist. He has dark hair and a high collar and is surrounded by bats.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 03/03/2026

I mean,okay, but it looks like this.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 02/03/2026

This guy was kind of a pain to catch.

A screenshot from Pokémon GO. A Diggersby, a large rabbitlike Pokémon with fists on the ends of its ears, has been caught.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 02/03/2026

I've gotten sucked back into Pokémon Go. Havent played since it first launched.

A screenshot from Pokémon GO. A ghostly Pokémon that looks like a hooded ghost with a skull for a face, called a Duskull, has just been caught.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 02/03/2026

Playing some New Super Mario Bros. I love this game.

A photo of a blue Nintendo DS Lite. The player is playing New Super Mario Bros.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 02/03/2026

The Nintendo DS Lite was released 20 years ago today in Japan! Still one of my favorite little handheld systems.

A Nintendo DS Lite handheld gaming device. It has a black case, a clamshell design, with two screens, a cross-shaped directional pad, and four buttons labeled Y, X, B, and A.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 01/03/2026

Some upcoming streams on my Youtube channel: 🚀 Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Tonight at 7 p.m. EST 🚀 Special bonus Dinkum stream - Tuesday at 7 p.m. EST 🚀 More Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Wednesday at 7 p.m. EST

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 28/02/2026

Depending on your choices in the gamebook, Simon and his co-star, Lucy Lane, can live happily ever after, or she becomes a vampire who stays loyal to Dracula.

A panel from The Devil Castle Dracula: The Battle of Old Castle, a Castlevania gamebook from the mid 1980s. It shows the character Simon lying on a hospital bed, covered in bandages with an IV drip. Beside him is a fair-haired young woman, looking concerned and relieved.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 28/02/2026

Cover art for The Devil Castle Dracula: The Battle of Old Castle, a Castlevania gamebook published by Futabasha in 1987. I really love the artwork here.

An anime-style cover for a Japanese gamebook based on Castlevania. It shows a young actor named Simon Belmont wielding a whip. Behind him is a monstrous demon holding a mask that looks like Dracula. In the background is a gothic castle in silhouette.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 27/02/2026

Here's an ad showing off a bunch of Tiger Electronics LCD games. I had a couple of these as a kid - Jordan vs Bird One on One and Ninja Gaiden. Pretty sure I also had some off brand games as well.

An ad for Tiger Electronics LCD games from the 1990s. It shows a number of handheld LCD games, plus some game wrist watches in the top left.

An ad showing a collection of Tiger Electronics LCD handheld games from the 1990s.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 27/02/2026

New Pokémon starters just dropped.

Three Japanese Bosozoku sushi bois. They look like little dudes made of rice with dramatic hairdos made out of fish.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 27/02/2026

🚀 Immediately after posting this, one of my followers came through! I'll be streaming a bonus Dinkum stream on Tuesday at 7 pm EST!

A promo graphic for Dinkum, a life sim game similar to Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. The player is in the foreground holding a shovel. In the background are various villagers and animals from the game.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 27/02/2026

Artwork of Dracula from The Legend of Satanic Castle: The Vampire Hunters, a Castlevania choose-your-own-adventure book published in 1990 by Futabasha, published only in Japan. The book is considered non-canon. It follows descendants of the 4 playable characters in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.

A black and white illustration of Dracula, one half of his face in shadow with lightning striking behind him. He has one gleaming visible eye and bares his teeth.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 27/02/2026

I feel like Simon Belmont smells like garlic...

An illustration of Simon Belmont from the Castlevania games. He is a muscular man with blond hair, dressed somewhat like a barbarian, wielding a whip.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 26/02/2026

A preview article in Nintendo Power 76 for Dracula X, the SNES remake of Rondo of Blood, mentions a character named Josef who doesn't appear in the game. It's hard to tell if this was just the author's creative liberty, or a name for a cut character.

A photo from a Nintendo Power article about Castlevania Dracula X. on the right, Richter Belmont is shown holding a whip. He is a young man with a blue tunic and white headband, striking a pose. On the left is text reading "Josef burst into my house, sweating with fear. "Josef? What is wrong, my friend? Here, sit down." He stared at me, eyes wide, his trembling mouth working in spasms. "Richter...it is Annet and Maria. They're gone. Dra-Dracula has taken them! The Lord of the Undead lives again!"

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 26/02/2026

This cancelled Castlevania character is known only as The Rival. He appears to have a planned rival for Richter Belmont, possibly a character for Rondo of Blood or for the cancelled Sega Genesis 32X title commonly known as Castlevania: The Bloodletting.

A videogame sprite from a cancelled Castlevania game, showing a man wearing a red tunic over a black undershirt, with a cross on his chest. He has blond hair.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 25/02/2026

In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, you fight the zombie trio -- fake zombified versions of Trevor, Sypha, and Grant from Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. The sprite for Trevor is actually a modified version of a sprite for Richter from a cancelled game called Castlevania: The Bloodletting.

Two videogame sprites side by side on a red background with some bats between them. Both sprites have similar poses. The sprite on the left has a blue vest and black pants, while the sprite on the right is wearing green armor. The sprite on the left is labeled Richter from Castlevania: The Bloodletting, while the sprite on the right is labeled Fake Trevor from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 25/02/2026

Stream will start an hour later than normal tonight so I can get in a slightly longer nap. We'll be playing Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin! Stream starts at 8pm EST.

A Screenshot from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. Jonathan, a male figure in red and Charlotte, a female character in blue, are fighting a huge blue cattle-like beast with exposed ribs.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 25/02/2026

There's a 1968 film with Christopher Lee called Dracula Has Risen From The Grave that has Dracula crying tears of blood -- this may have been the inspiration for the name of the track.

Christopher Lee as Dracula, crying tears of blood.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 25/02/2026

You're alive! Good job. Here's your gold star.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 24/02/2026

Kain the Dragoon from Final Fantasy IV. This image is one of the Steam wallpapers from the PC port of the 3d remake.

A 3D image of a knight wearing armor shaped like a dragon, holding a spear, facing right on a black background.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 24/02/2026

Artwork of Richter Belmont from Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls. GoS was a mobile game, discontinued in 2020. But the artwork is pretty nice.

A young man wearing a sleeveless blue tunic, a white headband, leather wrist guards, and a dagger sheathed on his belt.

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 23/02/2026

Gilles de Rais, a contemporary of Jeanne d'Arc, appeared in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness for the N64 as a vampire, so it wouldn't be the first time that the series has drawn from historical figures of the era.

Artwork of Gilles de Rais from Castlevania 64. He appears as a blue-skinned vampire with grey hair and facial hair, wearing a high red collar.

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