mac-cellar said:

So what am I doing with this Powerbook?  Well, I've used it to introduce my 10 year old son to Civilization II.  One of my favorites, and still stands up to any later version of the game.  My son loves history and I thought the game might interest him, but I wasn't sure how he would react to an old game played on old hardware, especially when he's used to the Wii, XBOX, Nintendo DS and Minecraft.  Long story short - he absolutely loved it.

So there you have it.

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gog.com, good old games, is a great place to visit if you want to introduce someone to some old games without needed to have old hardware on hand.    I gather that they package up the old games with DOSBOX or similar already wrapped around the old game in the installer.   The installations they sell, at very reasonable prices, are compatible with Win7 or 8 and usually with 10.6 or later.   I suspect that they would also work with 10.5 as long as it's running on Intel hardware.   By specifying 10.6 they can guarantee it's an Intel CPU.

If you subscribe to their weekly newsletter, you'll get some excellent deals, like old Civ versions for less than $3 each.

The only caveat to my gushing, is that the games are sometimes older DOS versions with poorer graphics than newer windows releases might have.   At least, I've seen folks complain about this in the comments.  If in doubt, read the user comments, but also keep in mind that if the comments are old, the game may have been "updated" (missing expansions added, version changed from DOS to Windows) since then.   And, I guess it's never the Mac version of the game, for those games that had nice Mac versions.