Playing PC games on iMac

As a complete newcomer to apple, I'm struggling to load my kids Sims games onto the new computer. Is it possible? Do I need a patch? Or do I need a whole lot of new games just for the mac? Please tell me its not the latter.

If you have an Intel Mac you can set up Bootcamp and run the PC games under the Windows system. I tried VM Fusion but the Windows games, Command & Conquer and Call of Duty, were not playable - even with a 2.8 iMac with 4 GB of ram. I had Vista Ultimate on the Windows partition and ended up putting XP on it since it ran smoother. Finally just rebased the entire system with Leopard and set up Bootcamp with Vista Ultimate. Games play great. I am not aware of any patches or emulators that will allow you to play your PC games directly on a Mac OS.

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    thanx much
    KM

    Well, mostly for Game Playing, you'd want to use Boot Camp & Install Windows, but slower action games can be played in Windows using one of these...
    Parallels...
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    VmWare Fusion...
    http://www.vmware.com/mac
    VirtualBox...
    http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

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