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Oh, hi there. Didn’t see you enter. Anyways, welcome to my humble little blog. For those of you not familiar with who I am, the name’s Brian. I’m 24 years old and hail from Findlay, Ohio. I work at the local newspaper here as a copy editor, putting my four long years of college to actual use. Kind of. I think.

For those of you who might recognize me from elsewhere, I work as Assistant Gaming Editor over at Blogcritics Gaming and as Features Editor over at Tomopop. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it because I get to do a lot of cool shit with a lot of cool people.

I've been gaming since the relatively young age of around 3 and I've played plenty of games, both good and bad. I'm continuously expanding my gaming collection, which has become more of an archive in recent years as I'm focusing on collecting older, less well-known titles. You'd honestly be surprised on what people are missing out on in bargain bins...



Other than gaming, I love anime, manga, sports, movies, TV, and a whole lot more. I also happen to have something of a legendary love for Cammy, to the point that I am the site's unofficial official Cammy fanboy. And yes, I do play as her in Street Fighter and do so quite well, too.

Also, I am Chad Concelmo's B.F.F., my prize for coming in first in The Great Retro Quiz .18 - ActRaiser. Accept no substitutes. Not even Aerox.

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Mad props to Ghost for this amazing card!

Great Retro Quiz! Results

Punch-Out! featuring Mike Tyson


Star Fox (winner)
ActRaiser (winner)
Dolphins!!
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Kart


Castlevania
Contra
Donkey Kong Country
Smash Bros.
Zelda II

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(Yes, that’s one of Dtoid’s own, Hollie (a.k.a. phoenix-blood). I met her at PAX and she is awesome.)





(Ooooh, I think I found a new favorite :3)

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A Sad Anniversary Today Brian Szabelski | 12:42 AM on 10.05.2007 11 comments

Time sure seems to pass by fast. When I happened upon this little factoid in my surfing today, I actually took a moment out to pause and think about what an impact it had. That factoid is that ten years ago today, on October 4, 1997, legendary game designer Gunpei Yokoi was killed as he stopped to help at the scene of an accident. Yokoi is perhaps better known for his successes like Metroid, as well as some of his failures like the Virtual Boy. Regardless, it's important to remember Yokoi's contributions. Here's but a short list of everything he's contributed to gaming: - The Game Boy - Metroid - The Virtual Boy - Game & Watch - Kid Icarus - R.O.B. - Intelligent Systems (indirectly - they were originally part of Gunpei's R&D1 squad), who created Fire Emblem, Paper Mario and Famicom/Advance Wars - The fact that Nintendo is even in gaming. Yamauchi came to Gunpei to come up with a hit toy, and he succeeded. Gunpei was moved to product developer, and from there, the rest is history. If you'd basically like that in video form, click here. I know some of you are visual learners. Yokoi's contributions shouldn't be forgotten. He's one of the most important people in gaming history, up there with the Bushnells and the Miyamotos of the world. In fact, his ideas still live on in the very DS and Wii you play today - using withered technologies in new ways that not only produces a cheap but fun form of gaming for the consumer, but one that is easy to produce. We miss you, Gunpei.