Don't use the store-bought Disc Doctor things, they don't work so well....my boss used to have this disc buffer, super high speed, he was able to fix every game I ever saw him buy from anyone except ones that had what appeared to be knife wounds in them. I had several unplayable games, and he was able to fix them, they look almost new.
EDIT---and sorry to contradict people saying to buy the disc doctor, but I own one, used it a few times, it seemed to work short term, but the games it "fixed" seemed to crap out totally soon after.
DOUBLE EDIT---On a side not, while we're talking about busted games, I tried to take my original copy of Tekken 3 out of it's case about 2 years after I got it (had been playing it all the time of course) and as I did it basically exploded, minimum about 8 pieces. All I could do was stand there and look at the pile of pieces, and about a minute later, commence with expletives.