How to avoid playing old games that suck:

Any game, that when you play it you have to draw maps. Those games suck.

That will result in a painful game experience basically.

Some games have an instruction manual that tells you to draw maps as you go through the game.

However, in some cases even though it tells you that you have to do so... sometimes you can get through that game without doing so.

Games where you can get lost in it... and getting lost isn't fun means that it's a bad game.

Games, when getting lost in it...  it still manages to be fun means that it's a good game. For example metroid and legacy of the wizard.