How to play Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact on Mac

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Game summary

Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact is the sequel to Thexder, an amazing game originally developed in Japan and later released to the USA. Fire Hawk: Thexder is well known for its eleven game music tracks, which were of a quality that was relatively unknown for video games released in the late 1990's. Game play consist of the player in the role of a robot battle unit that transforms into a space fighter jet "Fire Hawk" depending on the current action. When battling, the player maneuvers the robot transformer which can levitate and float while firing at enemy objects, creatures, droids and bots in order to clear the room in order to proceed. The robot battle unit transforms into the "Fire Hawk" space ship jet in order to move quickly and to navigate narrow connecting tunnels. Ultimately the goal is to conquer the invading alien species by navigating the catacombs to clear alien enemies and disable the alien mothership. There are 9 different combat missions that must be completed to disable the mothership. (Retrogameworks) Front Box Cover and Back Cover - Fair Use - MobyGames.com Credits Contributed by Trixter (8781) on Mar 22, 1999
First released: Oct 1990

Play Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact 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).

Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact 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 Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact like you would on any PC.
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