The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK's fastest thrill-ride

A fun point in the article: Burton got into the industry via Rollercoaster Tycoon experience:

> Curiosity became an obsession in his teens, when he started to play RollerCoaster Tycoon, a computer game that allowed him to devise his own rides. [...] In the end he won the job, he said, on the strength of those speculative rollercoasters he had made in a video game.