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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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AIM: NihonTiger90
MSN: hurricane317 at hotmail.com
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Twitter: brianszabelski
GMail: brianszabelski at gmail.com
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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

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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Out with a whimper: Championship Gaming Series folds Brian Szabelski | 10:25 PM on 11.18.2008 5 comments

http://screenburnfest.com/2008/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/cgs_logo.jpg Championship Gaming Series is dead. Bet you didn't know about that, did you? Bet you or anyone else didn't even care. In fact, people didn't care about it so much so that Joystiq is the only one who even reported it today. DirecTV, or more precisely News Corporation, has pulled the plug on the whole thing and left a letter on their site, stating it was "an idea whose time came too early." Ha. It was an idea whose time came too early? I doubt that. I happened upon this over the summer, and really, I am shocked it lasted this long. The kids playing Forza 2, for example, were awful because they kept trying to take each other out instead of, you know, racing. I'm sure there was some talent to be found, but it clearly wasn't on display in that game. On top of that, the entire team format, featuring teams that were more like pro sports clubs, was dumb. General managers, team jerseys and everything else never hid the fact that half the teams didn't even have kids from the places they were representing. I think the entire Chicago team didn't have a single kid from the entire state of Illinois, or something ridiculous like that. So goodbye, Championship Gaming Series. We will not miss you and your lame gimmicks.