How to play Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory on Mac

Game summary

Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory is a single-player platform game created for the Atari 8-bit family by Ron Rosen and ported to the Apple II and Commodore 64. The music for the Atari 8-bit version is by Gary Gilbertson (using Philip Price's Advanced Music Processor) and published in 1984 by Datamost. Robert McNally performed the Apple II translation.[2] The player controls a humanoid robot that must climb and jump its way through a factory. The factory is filled with suspended platforms, ladders and conveyors belts. The game includes a built-in level editor.
First released: Dec 1983

Play Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory 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).

Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory 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 Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory like you would on any PC.
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