How to play Barney Bear Goes to School on Mac

Game summary

It's the first day of school for Barney Bear! Barney Bear Goes To School is a colorful, musical game for children ages 3-8. Barney Bear begins on the morning of the first day of school. The player must help Barney wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast and make his way to school. Once through this short, interactive story, Barney enters the school room. Here, the room itself is a menu of activities and games for a child. There are the numbers and counting games, the alphabet and letter games, colors, shapes, toys, and objects all with accompanying sounds and descriptions. There is also a painting easel that allows children to fill-in the colors over a dozen different pictures. This delightful game allows even very young children to play without any adult supervision.
First released: Dec 1991

Play Barney Bear Goes to School on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Barney Bear Goes to School 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).

Barney Bear Goes to School 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 Barney Bear Goes to School like you would on any PC.
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