How to play Atari Flashback Classics Switch on Mac

Game summary

"The most comprehensive collection of arcade and home console classics comes to the Nintendo Switch. Packed with 150 all-time favorites, rare gems, and inimitable homebrews, Atari Flashback Classics SWITCH is designed to take advantage of the Nintendo console’s unique controls and functionality to bring new life to these iconic Atari games. With all-new achievements, leaderboards and social features bringing players together, combined with an amazing archive of classic artwork make Atari Flashback Classics Switch the most complete Atari collection ever!" GAMES LIST: Atari 2600 Games 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe A Game of Concentration Adventure™ Adventure™ II Air Raiders™ Air-Sea Battle Aquaventure Armor Ambush™ Asteroids® Astroblast™ Atari Video Cube Backgammon Basic Math Basketball Blackjack Bowling Brain Games Breakout® Canyon Bomber Casino Centipede® (untagged) Championship Soccer Checkers Chess Circus Atari® Code Breaker Combat® Combat 2 Crystal Castles® Dark Cavern ™ (Night Stalker) Demons to Diamonds Desert Falcon Dodge ‘Em Double Dunk Fatal Run Flag Capture Football Frog Pond Frogs and Flies Golf Gravitar® Hangman Haunted House® Holey Moley Home Run Human Cannonball International Soccer™ Maze Craze Millipede® (untagged) Miniature Golf Missile Command® (untagged) MotoRodeo Night Driver Off the Wall Outlaw Quadrun Race Radar Lock Realsports® Baseball Realsports Basketball Realsports Boxing Realsports Football Realsports Soccer Realsports Tennis Realsports Volleyball Return to Haunted House Saboteur Save Mary Sea Battle ™ Secret Quest Sentinel Sky Diver (untagged) Slot Machine Slot Racers Space Attack™ Spacewar Sprint Master Star Raiders Star Strike™ Starship Steeplechase Stellar Track Street Racer Stunt Cycle Submarine Commander® Super Baseball Super Breakout® (untagged) Super Challenge™ Baseball Super Challenge™ Football Super Football Surround Sword Fight™ (untagged) Swordquest: Earthworld Swordquest: Fireworld Swordquest: Waterworld Tempest® (untagged) Video Olympics
First released: Dec 2018

Play Atari Flashback Classics Switch on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Atari Flashback Classics Switch 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).

Atari Flashback Classics Switch 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 Atari Flashback Classics Switch like you would on any PC.
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