1,2,3&4) Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, and Resident Evil, because… obviously. MGS and SH each only had one game on the PS1, so there aren’t really any alternative options, and I can’t decide which TR or RE is the best, so I’m just going to go with the first ones.

5) Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. There’s probably going to be at least one Crash game on here, seeing as Crash was one of the two PS1 mascots, and I think it should be this one. I know there’s a good chance it’ll be Crash 1, because it’s the original, and it was the only one to have been made with only the D-Pad in mind (since analog controls aren’t being included), but Crash 3 was a much better game. It let you play levels in any order you wanted, it let you replay bosses, it’s levels were more varied, and you got new abilities as you played. Besides, they already included Tekken 3 over Tekken 1, and it’s not like Analog sticks are necessary in a game like this.

6) Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssey. I pick this one since you don’t need to have played any of the other games to understand it, and because it only used one disk (I get the feeling that things would get complicated for multi-disk games on a simplified system like this).

7) Rayman. The second game may be more popular overall, but when it comes to PS1 games specifically, this seems like the more appropriate choice. While it wasn’t an exclusive, it was very much synonymous with the PlayStation, Rayman 2 on the other hand was better known on the N64 and Dreamcast, and it’s PS1 version was lacking a lot of the content from those games. This is also one of the last 2D platformers to have been released back when 2D was still the genre’s standard, and is probably the only significant one to have been released on the PlayStation during that time. Also, modern Rayman games have returned to the 2D style, so it might be good for fans of Legends and Origins to see where that style of gameplay started.

8) Spyro The Dragon. Like Crash, I figure there’s going to be at least one Spyro game on here, and personally, I’d prefer the first game. Unlike Crash 1 this game’s simplicity feels right, as it’s balanced out with more interesting gameplay elements like breathing fire and gliding, and unlike it’s sequels, it never adds so much that it loses that simplistic charm.

9) Jet Moto 2. There should be at least one futuristic hovercar racing game on here, I was going to go with one of the Wipeout games, but I doubt this system is going to support link-cable multiplayer, and I think they’d want to take advantage of the kind multiplayer it does have. May as well make use out of those two controllers the system comes bundled with.

10) Medal of Honor. There needs to be at least one First-Person Shooter (not counting Jumping Flash), MoH seems like the right choice just because A) it’s the first game in a long running FPS series, and B) it has multiplayer, something that’s kind of a standard for FPS games these days.

11) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Nintendo included Castlevania games in both of their mini-consoles, they even included two of them in the first one, despite one of them not even being very good. If Simon’s Quest was good enough for the NES Classic, this genre defining game should definetly be good enough for the PlayStation Classic.

12) Twisted Metal 2. We’ve got two racing games so far, why not add in a vehicle combat game as well?

13) Pac Man World. There’s already been two confirmed games owned by Namco, since they’re clearly on board with this console, why not include a game staring their company mascot? Granted this isn’t the most well known game, but it is well liked by those who’ve played it. It also includes the original arcade game, which is always good to have.

14) Parappa the Rapper, or Um Lammy Jammer, or Vib Ribbon, in any case there should be at least one rhythm game.

15) Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. Again, we know Namco is giving this system support, so why not include Klonoa? It’s a very underrated game and series, and is also one of the earlier examples of 2.5D games.