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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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Worst. Character. Ever. - ROUND 1, MATCH 10 Brian Szabelski | 12:39 AM on 12.02.2007 28 comments

When I started the "Worst. Character. Ever." tournament, I looked at the bracket and figured out who would probably be in the finals. So far, things have been going according to what I thought they might be, but in Match 9, there was the promise of an upset. The vote started strong for Sora, but then towards the end, a surge of votes came in for Navi. It was close. It was very, very close. So close that it came down to the wire... ROUND 1 – MATCH 9 (Navi Bracket) (1) Navi - 10 votes (16) Sora (Kingdom Hearts) - 12 votes ... but Navi is gone. Sora pulls off the major upset and knocks out Link's annoying-as-hell fairy. Didn't see this coming, but apparently the Sora hate is stronger than I thought. So who does Sora face in Round 2? It's time to find out: Number of good games = 0 .vs The character from FFX that no one wants to remember. Tidus battles Barbie. Voting time begin!