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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.

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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 2, MATCH 1 Brian Szabelski | 10:56 PM on 01.03.2008 26 comments

After being side-tracked for the better part of the last few days, I'm back at the computer, if only for a few minutes tonight. Just enough time, though, to type up the next entry for the Worst. Character. Ever. Tournament as it makes the jump to the next round. Last time, we saw the exciting conclusion to the first round begin. But who walked away the... uhhh, "winner"? ROUND 1 – MATCH 24 (Tingle Bracket) (2) Boogerman - 3 votes (15) Tak - 15 votes And Tak is the last one to make it out of Round 1 alive. Also with that makrs the beginning of the much shorter Round 2. Voting is still the same: pick the worse of the two character, most votes moves on. Voting is still open for 48 hours. Voting for this match will go until 11:59 p.m. on January 5, 2008. Results won't be posted until January 6th due to reasons mentioned below. But here's our first two survivors. Who will win? Aaron Carter beat you. vs. Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... froggy? Shaq against Big The Cat in the opening match of Round 2. Voting begins now! As a side note, this is my last post until Sunday. I will be at Ohayocon in Columbus, Ohio. Until then, but I'll be doing a write-up on the experience, so look for it next week. Also, I'm bringing the helmet I made with me. HADOUKEN!