games or no games?
It tastes like what a pharmacist thinks that a horse thinks that an apple tastes like.
have you used dos before?
If you can manage with command line once in a while. Slackware is probably a good middle ground for you, oldest non-fucked-with distribution. Artix is also viable
If it is too difficult try MX, nitrix or devuan.
You can download thumbdrive versions of any of the above and boot them, test drive; move along if you don't like it.
Here is a list of other non-systemd distros you can also choose from; non-systemd because systemd presents a large attack surface.
https://itsfoss.com/systemd-free-distros/
It isn't obvious on the page, but the button at the bottom of each article is the link to the distro site