Parallels Desktop is not an emulator, an emulator emulates a different architecture, Parallels virtualises, meaning, it only runs OSs of the same architecture as the host (x86, x64).
You are likely talking about Rosetta which was a functionality (The actual emulator) present in OS X up until 10.6.8, it would translate PPC (the former Mac OS architecture) code to x86.
You can run OS 10.6.8 Server on Parallels, which in turn, because it has Rosetta, can run PPC apps.
Clarification: G4, G5 and i5 are CPU models/variations, not architectures or platforms. G3/4/5 are PPC; Pentium is x86; Core 2, i3/5/7 are x64 (which also runs x86 code).
Last edited: Dec 29, 2014