How to play Family Trainer: Fuuun! Takeshi Jou 2 on Mac

Game summary

The sequel to Family Trainer: Totsugeki! Fuun Takeshi Shiro and the ninth game to be made for the NES Power Pad/Family Trainer by Bandai and Human Entertainment. Like its predecessor, it is based on Japanese TV show Takeshi's Castle. The ninth Bandai Power Pad game, Family Trainer: Fuuun! Takeshi Shiro is Bandai's second license game based on Takeshi's Castle. The player must fight through a series of physically-demanding and bizarre challenges using the Power Pad accessory in order to reach a showdown with the fortress' owner, a fictionalized version of Japanese entertainer "Beat" Takeshi Kitano.
First released: Jan 1989

Play Family Trainer: Fuuun! Takeshi Jou 2 on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Family Trainer: Fuuun! Takeshi Jou 2 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).

Family Trainer: Fuuun! Takeshi Jou 2 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 Family Trainer: Fuuun! Takeshi Jou 2 like you would on any PC.
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