User permissions stopping apps from running

I have an old Indigo iMac which I'm giving away to a family with Primary (elementary) aged children. It is running 10.3.9, has a 500MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. I set up an admin user and then two limited users for the kids.
Everything runs correctly when logged in as the admin but about half the games simply show as the generic Application icon and won't run.
I had all these games stored in a folder on my server and simply copied them across on the network (This all happened at the school where I teach).
I have logged in as both users and studied the permissions via Get Info and tried to alter the kids permissions to match the admin but nothing has worked. I've repaired permissions from disk utility and generally banged my head on the desk, all with no success.
Any ideas?

Provide a link to games so we can try.
Are these classic games? did you download the original file from your server? Maybe the resource fork go messed up.
You say the games work on the iMac g3 400 in admin id?

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