>>1086831
I know I suggested Parodius, but there's a lot of good SNES games.
Tetris Attack is a puzzle game with cute characters I've suggested before.
Donkey Kong Country 2 is one of the best platformers ever made and has amazing music and presentation to the point I get a few drum beats stuck in my head every day.
https://youtu.be/vT9w3zk5vsc?si=Ln8gyaaFSk_d8Ixj
Chrono Trigger is an RPG thats a bit shorter than most, its less open ended but still its an rpg and may not be what you are looking for.
It is an amazing game too though, with akira toryiama doing the art direction and a dreamteam of composers and programmers.
Playstation era you have the original 3 resident evil games, twisted metal 2, silent hill, parasite eve, and a bunch of arcade throwbacks like the namco collection or the updated frogger game, etc.
N64 you have mario and banjo kazooie for platformers, dk64 and conker for meme platformers, doom 64 is a neat spooky take on doom with all new levels and artwork, Battletanx 2 is a fun tank shooter with a storyline, goldeneye/perfect dark are fun throwback shooters that kind of play like ass now if you play with the original controllers, but they have mouse and keyboard patches that make them feel fucking amazing.
For dreamcast Jet Grind Radio, tony hawk 2, Ikaruga, Powerstone 1 and 2, MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2, RE code veronica, Shenmue is a funny one to stream once or twice but very long and tbh a bit too realistic and boring for a full stream. MDK2 is cool and weird, slave zero is a big mecha in a cyber city game thats neat.
A lot of the older retro games are either short games you dont actually try to beat like puzzle games or arcade style games. Or they are licensed platformers like bugs bunny or something silly. Some of those are still good, like the SNES cool spot game. Others were basically proto shovelware. Its kind of hit or miss if you recognize the thing from outside of video games.
A lot of the best older games are either long form platformers/exploration games like Super metroid or Zelda a link to the past, but they could be beaten in maybe 6 streams or so? Just depends on how lost you get. Otherwise they are RPGs with long stories and plots, with chrono trigger being about the only one thats short enough and narrow enough in scope that it doesnt FEEL like a long ass game, and plays pretty quickly too.
If you do play try to get the playstation version for the extra anime cutscenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Sb9CZEz9A
I legit cant watch this without goosebumps