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About Me

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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The richest man in Japan iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis... Brian Szabelski | 12:49 AM on 05.08.2008 13 comments

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Yes, it is Hiroshi Yamauchi, who apparently has become insanely rich off the part of Nintendo he still owns. Yamauchi, formerly Japan's third-richest man for the same reason, has jumped to the top of Forbes' list of Japan's 40 richest people. Obviously, it's the Wii and DS' success that has pushed the former CEO to the top of the list, but I wonder how much longer he'll stay there. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Yamauchi. I still happen to think he's got a lot of sway in Nintendo's recent actions (explaining why they're making so many stupid mistakes like in the old days) and I feel like he both dropped the ball on the Gamecube and helped hold Nintendo back for so many years while everyone else ran past them. Now they're trying to catch up, and it's half-working. I really don't know if to salute him or flip him the finger, so I guess I'll just leave it be for now.