Samuel J. Bartholome

== Childhood ==
Samuel J. Bartholome was born on March 17th, 1978, to the dismay of his parents. After 2 years of living with their son, the Bartholome Family finally decided to put Samuel into an orphanage. There, he spent 5 years until he was adopted by Judy and Robert Greye, a recently-married couple.
After his adoption, Samuel was placed in a prestigious private school in Boston, Massachusetts. His life continued normally until age 14, when his father passed due to complications with a liver transplant. Due to the severe cost of the funeral, Samuel had to be taken out of the private school.
In 1994, at age 16, Samuel was given a Nintendo 64 as a birthday gift. After playing a few games for an hour or two, he realized the power that video games had, mostly as a tool for activism.
== Adulthood ==
Samuel attended a community college located in New York, until dropping out 2 years later due to mental health. Shortly after dropping out, he founded Sybonn Interactive, a third-party game development company. In 2001, Sybonn Interactive released their first game, Go, Mushroom! for the Nintendo Gamecube.
After the success of his game, Samuel moved into a 2-story home in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore, Samuel met his soon-to-be wife, Heidi Roshcovitz.
In 2004, Samuel Bartholome married Heidi Roshcovitz. They never had a proper wedding ceremony due to monetary constraints. After they moved in together, Samuel and Heidi began developing games together with the help of 2 of Samuel's college friends.
Sadly, Roshcovitz passed away in 2010 due to a head-on collision with a drunk driver.
== Sybonn Interactive ==
As mentioned earlier, Samuel is the founder of Sybonn Interactive, a video game company active between 2001-2014.
The company's first official release, Go, Mushroom! was innovative at the time for using the video game medium as a means of social activism. The game was one of the first to feature a specific gender setting for their character, rather than just male and female.
After losing his wife to a drunk driver, Bartholome put 97% of all of his games' revenue toward Mother's Against Drunk Driving, an organization dedicated to preventing death from drunk driving incidents.
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