Run snow leopard AND mavericks

Is there a way to have older OS's on a machine?  I just got a new iMac and it came with Mavericks.  Now none of my games work because it doesn't support "PowerPC" games.  On Snow Leopard they worked just fine. Not that I play them often but every now and then I'd like to play Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, etc...  I won't even get started with Sim City 4.
Thanks

Parallels will run Snow Leopard Server with no troubles... and (if you go through a WHOLE SERIES of convoluted steps and make a specially modified ISO or DMG of it) Snow Leopard. Same with VMWare. BootCamp is for Windows only.
Also, if your machine is old enough to take a Snow Leopard install on the Mac HD, (it would have to have come with SL), you can partition your Mac HD and install Snow Leopard on one partition, Mavericks on the other.
I had a G5 iMac with a 500Gb HD and I had OS10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 ALL installed on it in separate partitions.

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