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Interviews: Petrick Jongkind
1. Introduce yourself to the Club
Nintendo members.
I'm Petrick. You write that with an "E" because it is a combination of
the names Peter and Erik. I'm 23 years old and live in Meerkerk, a village south
of Vianen. I still live at home and go to work with my car.
2. What school have you done?
I follow a free education at the evening MEAO (economic). I have six subjects.
For four subjects I have done the final exams. Then there are two subjects
remaining those are Business economics and Informatics. I hope I can finalize
those subjects soon.
3. Do you sport?
I'm a member of tennis club Meerkerk, so I play tennis. Sadly enough I don't
have much time for doing that. Except for tennis, I do almost anything
sometimes: volleyball and soccer, if it happens to be, just for fun.
4. What are your hobbies?
Video games of course. Those are the number ones for me. I also like to go out
with friends and sometimes just drink something at a terrace, but you can't
obviously call that a hobby.
5. Do you watch a lot of TV and
what are your favorite shows?
To be honest, I don't watch any TV at all. Of course I'm sitting in front of it
sometimes but then I'm mainly channel surfing". According to me more people
are doing that?
6. What is your favorite music
/artist?
I don't have any special preference. I just like about any music and also in
there is some classic music. I like "Queen" if you specially want to
hear a name from me.
7. How did you come to Club
Nintendo as a game counselor?
I came to Club Nintendo as a game counselor, because I accidentally read an
advertisement. I already was a video game freak, so I applied for it and they
took me on.
8. How long are you working at
this job?
Already for six months now….That is not so long compared to my colleagues of
course, but I think that I know as much as they do. All together it's a lot of
information, but at one moment you will get used to it! I don't want to quit for
the time being, also because we, all together, form a good team and are enjoying
ourselves.
9. About which video game do you
get the most questions?
At this moment questions concerning "Battle of Olympus" are at the
top. We also receive pretty many quetions about "Gargoyle's Quest".
That's now just my favorite game. I can say I'm a specialist in it. As a matter
of fact, all of my colleague game counselors do have such a game specialism.
10. What is the hardest question
you ever had?
Some questions about "Solstice" are difficult for me. But as I said in
my last answer, for that game we have a specialist too. That is Carola. If I
don't know the answer, I simply ask her.
11. Last question. Which game for
the Game Boy, the Entertainment System and the Super Nintendo are at this moment
the number ones in the video game hit parade?
Game Boy: Gargoyle's Quest, NES: Super Mario Bros. III, Super Nintendo: Super
Tennis.
*** This interview was taken from Club Nintendo #5 1992 and was translated from Dutch to English by Ruudos.***
Interviews
Game counselors:
Barbara Beckman
Robert de Boer
Sigfrid van Driel
Gertjan Fortuin
Erik Hol
Petrick Jongkind
Eva Snijders
Laurens Stolker
Carola Struik