This isn't a relationship query directed at tasty young women but rather asking, when you look back on the really dusty old stuff from the late seventies - what are the oldest games you could be arsed to play again?

Off the top of my head I can only think of these three:

DragonStomper (Cassette tape - driven) - Atari 2600
Tunnel Runner - Atari 2600
Pengo - Coin-Op or Atari 2600
Bump 'N' Jump - Coin-Op or Intellivsion
EDIT

Not specifically from the 70's but dating as far back.

This is strictly related to video games or can other types of entertainment (music, movies, etc.) be included? If this is strictly video games, well I was not fortunate enough to own Atari in my childhood days (no Commodore or Amiga either), so it will be DOS games. On top of my head, I am willing to play (and I actually did play it just a few years ago) The Black Cauldron (1986): http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/black-cauldron

Well, my rule has always been that if she's over 40, she pays double my hourly rate...

Oh, you mean games.

Well, the oldest games I still play on a regular basis are on Intellivision. Night Stalker, Astrosmash, Buzz Bombers, Space Spartans, B-17 Bomber, so on and so fourth... So, I guess, 1979 is the oldest for me. I'd be hard pressed to think of the last time I played a game older than that. I know Atari 2600 launched in 1977 but those launch titles are kind of embarrassing (except maybe Space Invaders) and I don't play 2600 anymore.

Hmm not counting pinball...

Space Invaders - any platform as long as its not a "remixed" version. Can't improve on perfection.
Tetris - see above.

I like some of the older Atari games like Red Baron or Crystal Castles but only when I'm in the mood. Since my first gaming platform was the NES (already old when I first played it around 90 or 91 but new to me) I usually stick between about 1985 and 2003 in my gaming habits though.

As far as other media are concerned I'll read anything as long as I find it interesting, rarely reach farther back than the Victorian period though. I'll watch films from the nineteen-teens or earlier (Mostly Charlie Chaplin but also things like Edison's Frankenstein or The Man Who Laughs) if I find them interesting.

I've been tempted to see if I can find the plans so I can build my own copy of Tennis For Two

I'm something of a media history buff though, I've got a copy of Georges Méliès A Trip To The Moon on a disc somewhere

I'll push a hoop down a dirt road with a stick. I win the thread!

On the top of my head: A Mind Forever Voyaging

http://www.mobygames.com/game/a-mind-forever-voyaging

As with text adentures, as long as the writing is good, you can go way back

From the 70's? Space Race.

From I'm not sure it's the 70s and might have been early 80s? Quix. Still one of my all time favorite games.

LOL!

I am prepared to throw a spear at a wooly mammoth... errr Wumpus...

Wizardry.

I have no idea how old it is, but I still think Pong rocks.

I find that the time in which I started playing a genre is normally the furthest back I can go. For instance I started playing RPGs in 1997 with Fallout and Baldur's Gate, so when I play RPGs from a while before 1997 it's sometimes hard for me to deal with their older mechanics and graphics. I started playing shooters in 1993 or so with Dark Forces and Doom 2 though, so I can play any shooter from around that time and in that style.

I started gaming in the late 80s on the NES and then SNES, so platformers and JRPGs I can usually play from those systems and eras. My first games on the PC were early adventure games like King's Quest and Space Quest, so I can play pretty old games in that genre (though I tend to avoid ones with text entry).

That said I am hoping to spread out a bit, especially with RPGs. I have bought Might and Magic 1-7 here on GOG as well as Betrayal at Krondor and plan to try and play some of those this summer when new releases aren't coming out as much. Hopefully I can get into them and have some fun.

That wasn't very nice - I was born in 1979 :-/




Just joking - the oldest games I remember were from the Speccy days. I suppose the arcade/action genre didn't age very well, but some Turn-Based Strategies - hell, yeah!

Of course, I am referring to the gems of Julian Gollop - Chaos (1985) and Laser Squad (1988). True classics.

Oh yeah, Action Adventure also has some Good Very Old Games, like Head Over Heels (1987), or Batman (1986).

2006 games are almost still playable if I squint a bit, but I doubt anything from before then still works to be honest.