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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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What'd You Get? - Special Wednesday Post-PAX Edition Brian Szabelski | 10:15 AM on 09.03.2008 20 comments

Being at PAX meant I missed doing What'd You Get? this week, and with PAX being full of things to buy, that's no good. Not with the delicious amounts of swag and the shopping trips to Pink Godzilla and the random encounters with homeless people on the streets of Seattle. No, everyone did get something, whether it was as simple as a hangover or being set on fire to awesome figures or video games. This week, I ended up getting a few things: - A copy of the Japanese version of Legend of the Mystical Ninja, once and for all relieving me of Konami's turd-tastic English translation. The game is otherwise the same. - A Blue Knight Castle Crasher figure, signed by Dan Paladin himself. I planned on buying the whole family + the Barbarian, but it turns out I didn't have enough room in my suitcase to fit them all. Which sucks. :( - Insane amounts of swag, some of which will be given away to you, the Destructoid community, in future contests! Hope you like Deca Sports wristbands. :p - An assortment of smaller figures, including Indiana Jones one-coin figures, a Shy Guy keychain and a bunch of Final Fantasy ones. Also, Kapkomi brought a Cammy figure along with him that turned out to be the alternate version of one I have. Of course, that's a good thing because I didn't have it before hand, and I'm obviously thankful for it :) And with that, I pass the question on to you all: What'd you get this week?