How to play Horrid Henry's Big Box of Pranks on Mac

Game summary

TIME TO GET HORRID AND PLAY SOME PRANKS! Big Box of Pranks is a fast and funny, action-packed collection of mini-games based on Horrid Henry’s love of pranks and mischief. Featuring your favorite characters and all of Henry’s nemeses from the BAFTA nominated TV series; play through a wide range of fast moving mini-games. The difficulty level increases as you progress through all the pranks, becoming more and more frantic until you lose all your lives!
First released: Jul 2015

Play Horrid Henry's Big Box of Pranks on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Horrid Henry's Big Box of Pranks 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).

Horrid Henry's Big Box of Pranks 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 Horrid Henry's Big Box of Pranks like you would on any PC.
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