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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 2, MATCH 11 Brian Szabelski | 1:38 AM on 01.26.2008 19 comments

So I guess today's been a long, cruddy day. I had to run into work because the Web site for my university's newspaper crashed and we didn't know why. After hours of trying ot get a hold of someone, I finally found out it was a server somewhere out in Massachusetts going down and taking down the company that hosts our site. Add to that boring classes, other work, and the fact that Xbox Live has been shitty, and I'm not in the best of moods. Blah, blah, blah... segway into Worst. Character. Ever. Tournament... last match results... ROUND 2 – MATCH 10 (Tingle Bracket) (5) Kao the Kangaroo - 18 votes (13) Natalya – 3 votes Once again, another blowout, this time in favor of Kao the Kangaroo. He moves onto the quarterfinals to face Aerosmith. Only two matches remain in Round 2. Who moves on? You decide: Sucky game, good music. But still, sucky game. vs. Able to make an entire series suck with a single game! It's a battle of the men, as the Cheetahmen battle Superman in an epic contest of suck. Vote now! (Voting ends 12:00 a.m., January 28, 2008)