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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

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)

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What'd You Get? - PAX Edition Brian Szabelski | 12:54 PM on 08.31.2009 11 comments

Well, it's here. PAX officially starts on Thursday, though some people are getting in early. Personally, it seems odd that it's coming up so quickly, because I've got so many things left to do before I even get on the plane. @.@ Of course, one of those is What'd You Get, where we all talk about the things we got this week. Me? I was going to be picking up Batman: Arkham Asylum, but because I've heard the PS3 version's the one to get, I am holding off on it for a bit until I actually go out and buy my PS3 Slim. I know, it's gonna be hard to hold off on playing this because I've been looking forward to it, but if I could survive this long and survive the delay the game's release had, I can make it a few more weeks. Oh yeah, and I also have to save my money for something else gaming-related, too. Let's just hope everything keeps steady around here, especially with so many fellow companies in my field of work filing for bankruptcy and teetering on the edge of total destruction. That's it for me this week. See you all at PAX on Thursday if you're going, and regardless of that or not, tell me what you got this week!