Terminal - emacs command problem

Reading some interesting information on a Mac Hints website, I discovered you could play some simple games in Terminal using the 'emacs' command. But it doesn't seem to work.
I can get the list of games using the: *ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play* command but when I type 'emacs' after to enable the playing of the games I get the following message:
*dumpemacs: Must be run as root unless -n is used*
*emacs: child exited with status 1*
According to the website I read, it should start emacs, then I use Esc+x to go back to the prompt then type the name of the game I want to play but after that message has appeared, if I type the name of a game, I just get 'Command Not Found'
What is wrong?

Fixed the problem!
I think it may be something to do with upgrading from Jaguar to Tiger but instead of typing 'emacs', if I type 'emacs-21.2.1' emacs starts up fine and I'm then able to access the hidden games and programs.
Although I've solved the problem, is it possible to get it to run the emacs command by just typing 'emacs'?

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