Rowdy Peetam
Content manager game database, movie database
Hi everybody, my name is Rowdy. I was born in Assendelft thirty-two years ago and still live there with my wife Sandra, our beautiful newborn son Nicky Anthony and a sweet albeit psychopathic cat called Eef. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, reminiscing the good old days we had so far while having one or two beers. Other things I like to do are watching movies (everything) and TV series (Get A Life, Carnivale, The Shield, Lost, Prison Break, Buck Rogers), playing soccer, playing chess, reading books (The Dark Tower by Stephen King) and comics (Soda - by Philippe Tome and Bruno Gazzotti is an all-time favourite of mine -, Marvel, Image) surfing the internet, changing diapers and playing video games of course!
It seems like centuries ago when my dad introduced me to Pong and I haven't really recovered from the impact it had on me since then. Unfortunately I was unable to buy the Atari 2600 around that time but when I finally began to make money by delivering newspapers, all my money was spent on games and consoles like the NES, the MegaDrive 32X, SuperNES, Nintendo 64 etcetera, etcetera. I have many favourite games but the ones that stand out are Double Dragon II (NES), Road Rash and StarFlight (both MegaDrive), Wolfenstein 3D (SNES) and Ocarina of Time and GoldenEye (both Nintendo 64). I think I own quite a few games but unfortunately most of the stuff lies hidden somewhere on our attic. It's a shame really, I know :-)
I studied at the Economic College in Zaandam where I - instead of doing homework - spent a lot of my spare time playing videogames and reading about them. So while everybody else was at home reading the notes they made earlier that day, I was busy expanding my knowledge on games by reading various English game magazines (such as the utterly brilliant Mean Machines). I still have those magazines and every now and then I leaf through them. Ahhhh, doing so brings back sweet memories.
Because I never really exactly knew what I wanted to do later, I kinda rolled into my first job as an order picker at ID&T. During this period I was offered the chance to review games and movies for their magazine called Thunder Magazine and voila! I finally knew my destiny!! :-) For the last three years now I've been working as a free-lancer for a major Dutch website called
GameZ.nl, while maintaining a completely different full time job. I wrote a lot of reviews, previews, specials about soon-to-be-released games and even visited some game events such as the 2007 edition of the UbiDays where I interviewed various important game developers. I even got to interview legendary games developer Yoshiki Okamoto during another games event!!
At Collectorz.com
So just when I thought that life couldn't get any better I stumbled upon an open vacancy for Content Manager Games for Collectorz.com. I wrote in, got invited and here I am, managing the Games Database and processing your submissions. So if you got a question, a remark or simply want to chat, please do not hesitate and contact me. Game on!
