Older Mac games on a an Intel-based iMac

Does anyone know if it is possible to play older (1995 and up) Mac games on a new, Intel-based iMac?

Seconded. Emulation is the only way to run Classic games on Intel Macs. Rosetta is the framework that allows Intel Macs to run PPC Mac programs (for OS X). Before the Intel switch, Mac's also used something called the "classic environment." This allowed OS X users to run OS 9-compatible applications in OS X, but this is impossible under OS X.
I don't have any experience with SheepShaver. I believe Q (which is Mac port of a emulator called QEMU) can emulate PPC environments (I know QEMU can; so I can only presume Q can). But as the previous poster mentioned, the only legal way to get the ROM images you need is by actually owning a PPC Mac.

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