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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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Nintendo to hold another fall press conference; nothing important to be announced Brian Szabelski | 10:29 PM on 09.16.2008 8 comments

Expect lots of this. So, perhaps you've heard by now: Nintendo's holding a little press event at the beginning of next month. According to the company that listed the event, Nintendo is set to announce "new products", something that flies in the face of what they said at E3. Naturally, this has excited some people, but not me. Last year, they pulled a similar stunt, and while a few notable games were announced, there were no megatons. I expect this year to really be even more dull, with Nintendo spending most of the time talking about Wii Music, Wii Sports Resort, and maybe one or two DS titles they neglected to mention at E3. There won't be any big shocking announcements, no new DS, no Wii storage solution on the horizon. I know this how? Mostly based on past history and just a gut feeling. This company does not like to make big announcements months in advance; rather, they wait a few weeks ahead of time to spring the news on an unsuspecting public. I doubt they've changed this strategy, so the press conference will likely be about games they already have revealed. The only possible "surprise" is a Disaster: Day of Crisis release date for Europe and North America, but that game even looks dumb, so it's not much of an announcement if you ask me. What do you folks think? Will this be a dud or dynamite?