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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
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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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What'd You Get? - Goodbye 2008 Edition Brian Szabelski | 1:14 PM on 12.29.2008 19 comments

Well, this has certainly been one hell of a year. There were a ton of great games and great things to get, but alas, 2008 is almost over, and What'd You Get? is taking its final bow for the year. Mostly because next week is 2009... it's not like this is going away or anything. If you're new, to play along, just post what you got. If you're old, I don't need to explain that, do I? A few months ago, I mentioned a bunch of games I had bought that would be Christmas presents from my parents: No More Heroes, Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection, Mag Kid: Slide Adventure, Kanji Sonomama DS Rakubiki Jiten and Exclamation Warriors. I finally got all of those for Christmas, which was pretty much a present to myself, as it turns out. Unfortunately, that's about it for me, as I got a few other things (a sweater, a tool kit, money, a new volume of Yotsuba&! to read, etc.) but nothing else really gaming-related. What'd everyone else get this week for (insert your holiday of choice here)? ------------- Blogger's Note: Also, if you haven't checked it out yet, go vote for the Community Moment of the Year and Dtoid Story of the Year awards that I'll be handing out tomorrow by going here. And to answer a question in the comments from GuitarAtomik: Yes, Necros on fire counts. Anything that involved the community, be it C-Blogs, forums, Failcasts, PAX, NARPs, etc. counts. And you can be as specific as you wish; PAX in general or anything that happened specifically at PAX, like the said fire incident are both potential choices, for example.