I sometimes think that the easy access to reviews/previews/videos is sometimes ruining the pure joy of gaming.  For those of you old enough to remember doing so, I miss just going into a store and picking out a game simply based on looking at the back of the box (NES/SNES days).  Nobody told me whether a game was good or bad.  I went in blind.  You maybe read a Nintendo Power article once in awhile, but if you didn't have a subscription (like I didn't), ignorance was often bliss.

Does anyone else sometimes think that the easy access to information has actually been a negative in some ways?

Nope! I ended up with "Hogans Alley" because of box art and no reviews. That game sucked!

Do I want rubbish games? No! Though a good box art does always help me buy a game

Back in the day I chose tons of great games blindly based solely on the box art/screenshots. Mega Man 2, Gunsmoke, Castlevania, Ducktales; just to name a few. There are even many games I remember enjoying and only finding out years later that they weren't considered "good" games at the time. I'm talking about going into a game blind with no preconceived notions. Joy-gasm.  Obviously there were some stinkers as well.

I get where you're coming from. It's "back in the innocent days" kinda nostalgia.

That was awesome..I remember pickin many good games,but many bad also.
Worst was Chaos Strike or what it was..
Best would be Silent Bomber.

SAME HERE

like 5 - 10 years ago, that used to be the deciding factor for me!

Yeah, I remember doing this as well. Good times.

I do miss looking at the back of the box to determine whether I buy the game or not. I think I still do that today. I never really look at reviews these days.

Now, people focus more on what is wrong with a game rather than what it does well. Nothing is perfect, but unfortunately we reject many awesome games solely because they are not, or do not meet a certain "journalists" agenda.

Most games, you can judge accurately by what's on the box if you are old enough. I have read enough about gaming in the past 2 years that I can walk into a Gamestop right now and pick the winners from the stinkers.