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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
MySpace: Click
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 8 Brian Szabelski | 10:53 PM on 11.27.2007 19 comments

It's been a busy week so far for me. Tests and papers and quizzes have come flying down the tubes because the semester is growing to a close for me, and top of work, Japanese Club and Taiko drumming, I've been short on time to play a lot of the new games. However, I've still had time to keep the tournament going, and we've had seven first-round matches completed so far. Apparently, it's been a success so far, far more than I imagined and enough to push me into the top 50 C-Blogs. So once again, thanks everyone for voting! How'd the last match go? Here's the results: ROUND 1 – MATCH 7 (Shaq Bracket) (7) Liu Kang - 2 votes (10) Maxi - 13 votes The vote is in: it's Soul Calibur's Japanese pirate moving on to the next round. And so begins the last match of the Shaq Bracket. One character is infamous. The other? Barely known: STOP LAUGHING! vs. Don't know who he is? I didn't either. Don't know who Wild Woody is? Wikipedia is your friend. Basically, a pencil comes to life. It sucks. Yay. Duck Hunt Dog vs. Wild Woody... let the one-sided battle and debate begin!