How to play Mahjong Haouden: Kaiser's Quest on Mac

Game summary

A mahjong game with an RPG element. Players move around a map beating monsters at mahjong. Mahjong Haouden: Kaiser's Quest ("Mahjong Overlord: Kaiser's Quest") is a mahjong game released exclusively for the PC Engine. The game features a handful of RPG heroes as they set out to remove the various monsters and villains that have taken over their kingdom. To defeat these monsters, the player must beat them in mahjong games. The player has three characters they can choose between initially, and more become available later. The mahjong side of the game offers a standard one-vs-one mode. The player has to win a few games to obtain 100% of the points available, and more points can be earned depending on how the player won.
First released: Mar 1992

Play Mahjong Haouden: Kaiser's Quest on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Mahjong Haouden: Kaiser's Quest 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).

Mahjong Haouden: Kaiser's Quest 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 Mahjong Haouden: Kaiser's Quest like you would on any PC.
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