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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.

Contact Info:

AIM: NihonTiger90
MSN: hurricane317 at hotmail.com
Skype: NihonTiger90
Twitter: brianszabelski
GMail: brianszabelski at gmail.com
MySpace: Click
Steam: NihonTiger




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

Nihon's Gallery of Hotness:









(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)

Psst, more here.

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A somewhat disappointing weekend... Brian Szabelski | 12:27 AM on 01.07.2008 9 comments

This was supposed to be a weekend full of win. I'd be getting my Destructoid helmet, going out for a romp through downtown Columbus to spread the gospel of Destructoid to all in attendance at Ohayocon. Or so I thought. Things did not go as expected. To begin with, my camera went on the fritz this weekend, and I couldn't fix it until I got back to my computer to see what I needed to do. So pics... I gots none. On top of that, my Mr. Destructoid helmet is out of commission at the moment. Turns out that in transit, the eyes fell off the helmet, and until I glue them back into place, the helmet's not complete. So I didn't get to wear the helmet at all because I couldn't fix it while I was there. Not to mention that I got a bit sick, we got bumped from our hotel room and had to go elsewhere because of overbooking, and everything in the dealer's room was wayyyyyy overpriced. On the other hand, I'm back behind a stable Internet connection for online gaming (satellite internets do not work with Xbox Live), I've got CoD4 working again, there was a great panel involving members of the Ohio 501st Garrison (and I got to spend time with my friends. Oh, and I got to play Rock Band finally, too. So I guess the whole thing turned out okay. Unfortunately, no pictures are available, but I have started a hot gaming babe collection over to your right. ... Is it wrong that I'm noticing that the girl with the Super NES is playing Street Fighter II on Blanka's stage with Blanka fighitng probably Zangief or Dhalsim?