How to play Happyland Adventures on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

HappyLand Adventures is a platforming game with puzzle elements. In HappyLand Adventures you play as a rabbit running around saving small animal like creatures called happylanders. When you touch them, they start following you around. These creatures are often hidden on the map, and it requires you to explore each map to find them all. Once you have one (or more) you can drop them off at specialized safe zones. If you die, any happylanders following you will be returned to their original location. In order to finish a level you must drop off a certain amount of happylanders. When you have done so a message will tell you that the level exit is open Along the way you meet people that you can talk to in order to get hints as to where to go next in order to proceed through the level. You can also pick up fruits that you find to gain more points, and hearts that function as a health bar. Each enemy you hit will take one heart away, if you hit an enemy when you have no hearts left you will die. You are out to rescue the happylanders, small animal like creatures. Rescuing these will rid the world of evilness. As a nice bonus, the download includes a level editor you can use to create your own levels, and you can download extra ones from the game's website. Thumbs up for this charming freeware underdog.
First released: May 2000

Play Happyland Adventures on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Happyland Adventures 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).

Happyland Adventures 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 Happyland Adventures like you would on any PC.
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