How to play Game & Watch: Life Boat on Mac
Game summary
This G&W game uses the concept of rescuing passengers jumping from the deck of a ship, by trying to land them in two lifeboats attached to a string, being pulled by two men. Each of the previously mentioned lifeboats can only contain four passengers at a time!. Once that number is reached, passengers will only be welcomed in the sea by sharks. Unloading the lifeboats to save the passengers from this fate is mandatory. Game B ups the ante by deploying only one lifeboat instead of the two in Game B. The pace and frequency of the passengers will increase accordingly.
First released: Oct 1983
Play Game & Watch: Life Boat on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Game & Watch: Life Boat 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).
Game & Watch: Life Boat 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 Game & Watch: Life Boat like you would on any PC.
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