How to play Big Nose's American Adventure on Mac

Game summary

You are Big Nose the Caveman and for reasons unknown you have been transported through time and landed in modern day New York City. You have set up camp beside a zoo but you are appalled that the animals are kept in cages so you have vowed to set them free. In this platform game which scrolls in multiple directions when you move, you must traverse over three levels across the USA in Manhattan, The Wild West and the Golden Gate Bridge to save your animal friends. You must shoot or avoid other people and creatures that roam the level because when touched you lose one of three lives. A joystick or keyboard can be used to control your hero.
First released: Dec 1992

Play Big Nose's American Adventure on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Big Nose's American Adventure 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).

Big Nose's American Adventure 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 Big Nose's American Adventure like you would on any PC.
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