How to play Garfield: The Search for Pooky on Mac

Game summary

Garfield has lost his favorite Pooky Bear...Young players must help Garfield in his search for Pooky. The game takes Garfield through his best known haunts interacting with his favorite characters e.g. Jon, Odie and Arlene to name but a few. No cat's tale would be complete without the usual encounters such as: dogs, mice, spiders & scraps of food. True to his character Garfield can not resist eating as much as possible throughout the game but food equals' energy & energy enables this fat cat to perform extraordinary moves throughout his adventures in the game. At the same time all sorts of obstacles will have to be avoided, such as web spinning spiders, happy Odie rushing towards Garfield, bad food, annoying kids, angry pit-bulls and more.
First released: Nov 2005

Play Garfield: The Search for Pooky on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Garfield: The Search for Pooky 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).

Garfield: The Search for Pooky 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 Garfield: The Search for Pooky like you would on any PC.
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