St. Andrew’s Adventure (1983)

This is the first visit of the All the Adventures project to Ireland. I can’t fully say “this is the first adventure game from Ireland” due to the possibility of something slipping through the cracks (and also the fact I haven’t finished 1983) but we can still assert 1983 as a general starting point; anything that came before that was too obscure to be noticed by the various modern archives. (We have an author upcoming from Northern Ireland with a game from before 1983, but it wasn’t written there, and of course in a political-border sense it’s a different country.) From a 2021 video introduction to St. Andrews College Dublin, an international school for elementary through high school students. 1983 does seem somewhat late given how much adventures were booming in the UK just adjacent; this isn’t a situation like New Zealand with physical isolation from computer distributors. So it’s worth a rewind: December 6, 1921 marked the start of Ireland as an independent country with the…