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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 6 Brian Szabelski | 10:42 PM on 11.23.2007 19 comments

In life, there are winners and losers. And heck, sometimes, perennial losers can become winners, and perennial winners can become losers. Like my high school football team that choked every year in the playoffs until this year when they made it to the State Finals in Detroit. That's where I spent most of my evening, but was it worth it? Michigan High School Athletic Association - Division 4 State Football Finals Marine City - 21 Detroit Country Day - 7 Yep. So congrats to Marine City High School for finally winning a state title, even though they did it four years after my graduation. But we've got a more important winner to talk about: the winner in the next match-up of this tournament of losers, which I guess really isn't winning at all. Here's how Match 5 went down: ROUND 1 – MATCH 5 (Shaq Bracket) (6) Bubsy - 4 votes (11) Bam Margera (Tony Hawk series) - 20 votes Well, I guess that's our major upset of the bracket, though it's not a big one. Bam moves on to take on the next winner in Round 2. And just who do we have in Match 6? One's a robot that appears to be made of Slinkies. The other is apparently one hell of a mechanic, but an awful fighter pilot: Worst. Wingman. Ever. vs. Dr. Wily Must Have Been Drunk That Night... Slippy vs. Spring Man... let the battle and debate begin!