How to play Arcade Pinball on Mac

Game summary

Enhanced for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display! Miss the 8-bit days of sprites and beeps, yet still addicted to the thrill and dynamism of modern apps? Want to have your cake and eat it, too? Get your paws on digital pinball moguls Gameprom's latest release, Arcade Pinball and get all your kicks in one dazzling app! This unique table features pinball bumpers and targets, plus a color monitor where you can take on a variety of old-school digital minigame challenges – a space scroller, car racing, missile defense, a block breaker, and more. And like many Gameprom tables, Arcade Pinball pushes the digital environment to deliver more than a mechanical table, while capturing the same feel and response of a real physical pinball game. Arcade Pinball is available now – your own portable mini-arcade! FEATURES – 7 games rolled into one pinball table! – 6 mini-games, each with its own unique, attractive graphics in retro, 8-bit style! Play the mini-game on a mock LCD display set in the center of the pinball table! Each mini-game has at least three skill levels! – Choose for yourself which mini-game want to play. You can score points in mini-games chosen from the Mini-Game Selector or by playing the ongoing game in the table center during general gameplay! The higher your progress, the more points you'll gain! – awesome 3D cinematic graphics – Super-detailed graphics in retro, 8-bit game style – Choose whichever mini-game you want to play! – Full support for MacBook Pro Retina Display! – Original music, sound effects, and gameplay! – Multiball! Play with several balls simultaneously! – local and online high scores – hours and hours of pure action in your very own hands
First released: Nov 2012

Play Arcade Pinball on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Arcade Pinball 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).

Arcade Pinball 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 Arcade Pinball like you would on any PC.
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