Formatting HD to run system 7 or just buy a vintage mac?

my niece has a bunch of games from her childhood that she would love to have again but they obviously don't work with leopard. i was thinking i could format a hard drive and load system 7 on it, but i'm not sure if there are other factors i'm not thinking of, hardware issues. i'm not sure how to get around the floppy issue, for one, but there may be video components that are different and might render the game useless, no? would it be better to just buy an old mac LC or something?
thanks!
mary

Mary,
You want to emulate / run System 7 on your Mac Pro ? or on some other, as yet unnamed, Mac ?
There's some choice in a System 6 or System 7 emulator.
mini vMac, or Basillisk II. Use google to find them.
mini vMac will emulate an old compact black and white Mac with a motorola 680x0 processor, like the Mac Plus, or SE.
Basillisk II will emulate a black and white, or colour Mac with a motorola 680x0 processor, like the LC, LC II, Mac II, etc, up to a Quadra.
It all depends on the games you want to play, ie. compatible with System 1 to System 7.1 (mini vMac) or System 7.1 to System 7.5.5 (Basillisk II).
Or you could pick up an old Mac for $10.

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