How to play Active Life: Magical Carnival on Mac

PlatformsPortable console

Game summary

Active Life: Magical Carnival is a multiplayer, family-friendly Action-Party game that allows families and friends to visit an amazing and active theme park without leaving home. The game is a part of the popular Active Life franchise exclusively for play on Wii and utilizes the Active Life mat controller (not included). Designed for multiplayer fun, Active Life: Magical Carnival supports up to 10 players in cooperative and competitive play. Additional features include: dozens of themed carnival attractions, four multiplayer modes and multiple difficulty levels. Trapeze gameplay from Active Life: Magical Carnival An exclusive carnival party for Wii. View larger. An Exclusive, Active Multiplayer Carnival Experience for Wii Grab your friends and family and experience a virtual theme park like no other with Active Life: Magical Carnival. Explore an array of dozens of vividly imagined carnival attractions, including haunted houses, a lively circus tent, a pirate ship on the high-seas, a colorful parade and exciting fantasy zone. A veritable thrill-ride of activities will keep you moving as you tame lions, steer pirate ships, explore game areas, ride a flying carpet and much more, all from the comfort of home. Combined mat and Wii Remote control example from Active Life: Magical Carnival Simple, clear controls. View larger. Load of Modes Active Life: Magical Carnival contains a play mode to suit every player. 'Party at the Park' mode lets up to 10 players play in a series of individual or team-based activities that gives everyone a chance to get in on the action, while 'Dream Attraction' mode allows one to four players to experience dozens of themed carnival attractions including: Circus, Parade, Horror, Pirate and Fantasy attractions. The versatile 'Free Play' mode offers easy access to individual attractions. Finally, invite a friend to the carnival in the two-player 'Let's Go Out' mode. In this option you can send an invite to a Mii on your M
First released: Nov 2011

Play Active Life: Magical Carnival on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Active Life: Magical Carnival on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Active Life: Magical Carnival installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Active Life: Magical Carnival like you would on any PC.
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