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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.

Contact Info:

AIM: NihonTiger90
MSN: hurricane317 at hotmail.com
Skype: NihonTiger90
Twitter: brianszabelski
GMail: brianszabelski at gmail.com
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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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Where would Destructoid be without Colette? (not related to that stupid meme going on earlier) Brian Szabelski | 10:54 PM on 05.09.2008 39 comments

So I heard it was someone's birthday today? Yes? Well, in that case, it's a special day today for our own Colette Bennett, Queen of Destructoid (apparently... I didn't assign that title) and editor-in-chief of Tomopop. She's a totally awesome person who brings us wonderful things, like gaming news, cute stuff, awesome toys, and a love of Taiko Drum Master that perhaps eclipses my similar love for those games. But she's also awesome for different reasons. She didn't have to respond to an e-mail from a 21-year-old college kid who had only written for some gaming Web sites, a student newspaper and a few personal blogs. But for some reason, the scrappy little kid with the figure collection got to be a guest editor at the shiny new blog, then an associate editor over at Tomopop. And somehow, he turned out to be pretty good at this blogging thing. So here's to Colette. Don't ever stop being awesome. Also, your Chocobo is out back in the giant box with the bow. You might want to get it out of the box before it passes out from a lack of oxygen. We kinda wrapped over the air holes. Attached photos: