Every PlayStation Classic Game Ranked, Worst to Best

Launching on Dec. 3, the PlayStation Classic promises to transport nostalgic gamers back to the '90s with 20 preloaded classics, including Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII and Grand Theft Auto. But for every Resident Evil and Twisted Metal on the retro console's lineup, there's a stinker like Destruction Derby or Cool Boarders 2. As such, we've ranked every single game on Sony's upcoming nostalgia box, so you can skip the filler and get right to the good stuff once you pick your console up.

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Intelligent Qube is a 3D puzzle game in which you must get from Point A to Point B without getting crushed by increasingly complex sets of moving cubes. While this is probably the most obscure cut in the entire collection (and not the best puzzle game on the system), those looking for a good mental challenge will probably get an hour or two of amusement out of this one. — Mike Andronico

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Perhaps best known as "that game from the demo disc," Jumping Flash! is a first-person platformer that has you bounce around 3D levels as a robotic rabbit named Robbit (seriously). While it doesn't hold up to the standards of today's 3D platformers, Jumping Flash! was an important showpiece for what 3D games were capable of on Sony's then-new console. It's, at the very least, worth popping into this game to see what gamers once considered "revolutionary." — Mike Andronico

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In the earliest days of the PlayStation, when your options for racing games pretty much consisted of Ridge Racer, Wipeout and Jet Moto, Destruction Derby may have offered enough to steal your attention for a short time, despite its nonexistent track design and bare-bones gameplay. However, PlayStation owners wouldn't remain that desperate for long. And that's why, if we were forced to choose, we'd much rather have the game's more fleshed-out sequel on the roster here. But even then, the sequel would also have struggled for the spotlight against Ridge Racer Type 4's staggering production values and Twisted Metal's timelessly addictive multiplayer thrills. — Adam Ismail

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Mr. Driller is a simple but addicting puzzler that blends some of the basic digging gameplay of Dig Dug with a color-matching mechanic that rewards good strategy and fast reflexes. While it's not the best puzzle game on the PlayStation Classic, Mr. Diller is worth dipping into to get a few rounds of colorful block-destroying fun. — Mike Andronico

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At the height of '90s extreme-sports fever, Cool Boarders 2 may have been fine enough. But it simply hasn't aged well, with its dodgy collision detection, sparse graphics and painfully slow gameplay. It also didn't help things that a few months after Cool Boarders 2's late-'97 release, Nintendo trotted out 1080° Snowboarding on the N64, which was pretty much better in every conceivable way. That relegated this PlayStation title to being the kind of game you desperately tried to convince your friends was as good as the one you all really wanted to play. — Adam Ismail

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Mudokons are friends, not food! Nowhere is this more true than in Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. Abe, the titular protagonist, fights to free his people from enslavement and overhears the company overseer's plans to turn those people into the next affordable treat. Over the course of this classic platformer, Abe will liberate his fellow Mudokons while gaining incredible powers from his people's lost history. Widely praised during its debut, Oddworld offers a great mix of puzzle and platforming action. — Sherri L. Smith

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One of the first popular tactical shooters, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six stood out by favoring strategy and stealth over running around and going guns-blazing. While the game was a hit on PC thanks to its compelling campaign and then-novel multiplayer format, its PlayStation port isn't nearly as beloved, due to its inferior graphics and features. Still, if you're a fan of modern installments such as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, you should at least check out how the series began. — Mike Andronico

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