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Honestly? Pretty much anything from the N64 era or earlier. Anything from before the PS1 will run great at the lowest power settings, and will stretch your battery life out for like 8-10 hours. Maybe not a huge concern if you have access to an outlet to charge, but I’m assuming you’ll be on your own for the whole flight.
Arcade games are good for maybe an hour at a time, but quickly become too repetitive for me. Don’t sleep on the old RPGs and adventure games, as those will be fairly good at stretching gameplay into dozens of hours; Chrono Trigger is easily a ~25 hour game for the casual first-time player, and will be consistently entertaining for most of that time. Super Metroid will take at least a few hours to beat, especially if you’re not a repeat player who already knows where to go.
If you have access to a charger, then your potential library will expand massively as you can loosen your power restrictions. The PS1 was the golden era of JRPGs, for instance. FF7 is a classic for a reason. Legend of Dragoon is stellar and will easily last 40-60 hours of gameplay. Legend of Legaia had a small release and was completely overshadowed by the bigger players, but has a cult classic following these days.