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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 5 Brian Szabelski | 11:27 PM on 01.13.2008 25 comments

The weekend is ending. I have work tomorrow morning and an interview to conduct with our local representative in Congress, so I’m nervous about that, but excited at the same time. I have to get up early to actually get dressed and get there on time. Once I get that done, it’s classes and studying for my Japanese 302 quiz that’s at 9:30 in the morning on Tuesday. Yay. However, it’s not studying time right now. It’s fighting time, as in the next match of the Worst. Character. Ever. Tournament. This time, we see a Soul Calibur loser battle a writing tool that is quite a tool. But who won? ROUND 2 – MATCH 4 (Shaq Bracket) (7) Maxi - 8 votes (15) Wild Woody - 15 votes I guess you can pencil Wild Woody in for the quarterfinals, lulz! ... ... Okay, that was a terrible pun. But enough with that. It’s time to move on to Match 5, which sees the first two survivors of the Navi Bracket meet head-to-head. Like last time, it’s a match up between two very deserving characters: Generic Square Enix character vs. The Paris Hilton of Video Games Sora battles Barbie in the next match of Round 2. Voting begins now! (Voting for this match will go until 12:00 a.m. on January 16, 2008.)