How to play American Girl: Mia Goes For Great on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

American Girl: Mia Goes for Great tells the story of teenage kid Mia and her dream to participate in the National Ice Skating competition. The game takes part in her home town, where she interacts with friends and relatives which helps her to achieve her goal. During the game the players will get involved into two fun mini-games - Snowflakes and Rink Sweep, which are related to the storyline of the game. Players get the sense of ice skating from the featured Program Builder, which allows you to set up individual routines and rehearse the moves in order to get prepared for the competition stage. During the competition the player presses the assigned keyboard keys which are different for each move. The game features fifteen locations, seventeen unique characters and lots of items you collect during the game.
First released: Feb 2008

Play American Girl: Mia Goes For Great on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play American Girl: Mia Goes For Great 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).

American Girl: Mia Goes For Great 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 American Girl: Mia Goes For Great like you would on any PC.
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