Comedian Alasdair Beckett-King was a die-hard adventure gamer until he discovered Morrowind: 'The first time I loaded it up, I walked straight into a little pond and was killed by a fish'

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Alasdair Beckett-King first encountered games through playing Dizzy on a ZX Spectrum bought by his parents. "We got a second-hand Spectrum with a black and white monitor. I don't even know if kids know that was a thing. So I played Dizzy in black and white. It's a hard enough game in colour!"

When he eventually got his hands on a PC, Beckett-King was drawn to adventure games like The Secret of Monkey Island and Full Throttle. It's a passion he's maintained all his life, through film school into his initial career as a game developer, creating games like Read Entire Article