I've had great success running Win 95 games on modern hardware. I just had to do it in Wine, amusingly enough.

Frustratingly, wine for windows isn't a thing...

Except it is (at least for the use-case of 16-bit apps that are unsupported by a 64-bit Windows) https://github.com/otya128/winevdm although no updates since 2021, but maybe it was "good enough" for whatever they were targeting.