Can I run both OS 10.7 and OS 10.6.8 on my iMac ?

Because I have learned that I lose all my Mac games and some other applications, I was wondering, since I have more than enough space on my 1 TB hard drive, if I could retain the Mac OS 10.6.8 that previously ran these programs in a partition.

Yes. I have done something similar, except I kept a small partition to boot Leopard instead of Snow Leopard, for best compatibility with old software. In fact, I have had that small Leopard partition for a while now since I have a few old titles that will not run in Snow Leopard but run fine in Leopard.
If you already have a second partition, and it's large enough to accept a clone of your current Snow Leopard boot partition, then just clone it over.
If you already have a second partition but it's a little on the small side, install Snow Leopard onto it fresh. You don't have to move any of your personal media and data to the smaller partition. You don't even have to move the old PPC-only applications - they can continue to reside on your main/large partition that you'll be upgrading to Lion.
If you don't have a second partition, be sure to perform a full backup to an external device before repartitioning. If all goes well nothing will happen to the data on your drive, but you shouldn't take any chances when rewriting volume allocations. If it were me, I'd do a full bootable backup to an external drive, then wipe and repartition the drive, and finally restore back to the first/larger partition just created.

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