Status Roach Nov 5, 2025
Article: Roberta Quest - We connected King’s Quest creator Roberta Williams to comedy writer Mike Drucker, who may be her biggest fan, for a conversation about the series’ legacy and a generation’s connection to it by Mike Drucker
Early in our first conversation, I talked about her influence on my generation’s creative life and education. I’m being serious when I …
Article: Roberta Quest - We connected King’s Quest creator Roberta Williams to comedy writer Mike Drucker, who may be her biggest fan, for a conversation about the series’ legacy and a generation’s connection to it by Mike Drucker
Early in our first conversation, I talked about her influence on my generation’s creative life and education. I’m being serious when I say King’s Quest literally helped teach me to read. I asked her how she felt about so many people having that same experience.
“I just sort of thought of it as a game, you know?” she said. “I'm just doing a game, but at the time, you don't really realize how it might be affecting people, or especially kids. You just don't really think about that. You just think, you know, this is fun. I wanted to be entertaining. I wanted to sell well. I wanted to, you know, go out there and people appreciate it. Because I was in my 20s, early 30s, and you don't think like that, ‘like, oh, it's gonna teach kids to read and it's gonna teach them another language,’ maybe, if they're from another country or they're learning how to solve puzzles. I mean, you kind of do, but not in a big way. But now I really, truly understand it, because I've been told so many times, and I've come to the point where I almost feel like I'm a mom or a teacher to a lot of kids out there.”
