Since you mentioned The Bard’s Tale, here’s what I had to say about it on the “Video Games You’ve Played Recently” thread (see also 521, 524, and 525). In short, an extraordinarily satisfying trip! 
I also hate a lot of old games I used to play a lot. Looking back on it it’s doubtful that I ever actually liked most of them, but I was a kid in a 80’s Hawaii and it was either that or vandalize street signs. Even at the time, there were so many goddam annoyances and cheap tricks and bum steers and outright swindles. I had nicknames for them. Good Yuarki, it’s been four decades and I still remember “End Catchoff” (something barely scratches the teensy little tip of your enormous ship/vehicle/vessel and you take the same damage if you took a missile squarely in the engine deck), “Miss By One” (you come up one quillionth of a whatever short and suffer the same result as if you’d taken a nap the whole time), and “Coincidency Mahhnn” (basically every “natural 1” story you’ve ever heard back to back). And that’s when the game wasn’t simply freakishly difficult. 
(Yeah, I went there, because they always did.)
Bottom line, I have the Internet, DVR, and a snazzy Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ (oh yeah, gotta remember to close out that thread sometime 
), and my tolerance of video game BS is at an end. At the same time, DOS emulators now allow save states, so I want games that take advantage of that. That’s necessarily going to limit my possible selection. Below The Root. Executive Suite. Trek Trivia. The aforementioned Bards Tale trilogy. Demon’s Forge. Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony (the only Origin game I ever completed). Maybe a Zork or two. Believe me, I tried getting into 4 x 4 Off Road Racing and The Ancient Art of War, but some games are just beyond help. (Everything I said about Sid Meier’s Pirates in this thread still holds)
So, selective perception? Not that fun in the first place? You tell us. (If graphics are your main concern, I really think you’ll enjoy some of Steam’s selections.)