I've had pretty good luck running most older games via Windows with Parallels on my M1 Macbook Pro.

Microsoft now officially supports Windows via Parallels as “an authorized solution” on M1 & M2 Macs. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602718/microsoft-window...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-usin...