Found an old box of games
 

can a load and run a game from 10 years ago speced to run on Win95 on a machine running Win 7?

Do i need to load an emulator or something?

Use a virtual machine and load the games onto it. Quick walkthrough here (and link to a windows 95 .vhd file iin case you don't have the 95 disks):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbGeOwuIrbg

or use DOS box

Thanks i have the old Cd's and boxes so will have a play