Thinking of buying a macbook, but I have old Windows games and....

I'm wondering if they will work good on the macbook using bootcamp.
most of my games are like all of the pc games of star wars, Xwing, tie fighter, tie fighter VS xwing and alot others.
I was thinking of buying (God Help ME) a Gateway 610X a all in one with a 17" LCD on eBay refurbished for $644.90 including shipping.
Now I love macs I have a G5 iMac and a G4 eMac but I like to play my old games, some are 10 yrs old but I love them, yes I am a star wars geek!
I did have a Compaq EVO N600c but when I tried to update the BIOS if failed and wiped the BIOS, DOH!!!! So now I have a good Compaq paperweight,LOL!
thanks!!
Jim

Using boot camp, if they will even run in Win XP, then they will run just fine on the MacBook running Windows XP.

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