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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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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 5 Brian Szabelski | 10:57 PM on 11.21.2007 26 comments

Thanksgiving cannot stop the Worst. Character. Ever. tournament, though it might cause fewer people to vote until after they’re finished stuffing themselves with food. Here in Detroit area, where my folks live, we have a few traditions, but none is more so than coming together around the TV to watch America’s Thanksgiving Parade in the morning as they make their way through downtown. No, there are no shootings; downtown Detroit’s actually the safest part of the city. In the afternoon, we all gather around again for the annual bitchfest known as the Lions’ Thanksgiving football game, where we watch only because it gives us something to complain about until we get so fed up we start talking about the Red Wings. You just kind of get used to it. Speaking of turkeys, we had two in the last match-up. Who won? ROUND 1 – MATCH 4 (Shaq Bracket) (5) Shadow the Hedgehog - 17 votes (12) Clown Man (Mega Man) - 12 votes Much, much closer than I expected, but Shadow the Hedgehog moves on to face Guilty Spark in Round 2. With half the Shaq Bracket’s Round 2 filled, we’ve got another 4 matches to go, beginning with this next interesting pairing. Could we have an upset in the making here? Annoying jackass vs. Annoying Jackass Bubsy vs. Bam… cast your votes now!