How to play PAC-MAN on Mac

Game summary

One of the most popular video games in arcade history! 2015 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductee Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent outrunning pesky ghosts and chompin’ on dots? Now you can have the same arcade excitement on your mobile devices! Guide PAC-MAN through the mazes with easy swipe controls, a MFi controller, or kick it old school with the onscreen joystick! Eat all of the dots to advance to the next stage. Go for high scores and higher levels! Gain an extra life at 10.000 points! Gobble Power Pellets to weaken ghosts temporarily and eat them up before they change back. Avoid Blinky, the leader of the ghosts, and his fellow ghosts Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, or you will lose a life. It’s game over when you lose all your lives. NEW MAZES!!! In addition to the pixel for pixel recreation of the classic original maze, the game is packed with new different mazes. Challenge your skill to beat them all! We are constantly updating the game with new maze packs that you can buy to complete your PAC-MAN collection. HINTS and TIPS!!! Insider pro-tips and hints are being made available for the first time in-game! Use these to help you become a PAC-MAN champion! FEATURES: • New tournaments • New Visual Hints and Pro-tips • New mazes for all new challenges • Play an arcade perfect port of classic PAC-MAN • Two different control modes • Three game difficulties (including the original 1980 arcade game) • Retina display support • MFi controller support Supports iOS 7.0 or later
First released: Oct 2008

Play PAC-MAN on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play PAC-MAN 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).

PAC-MAN 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 PAC-MAN like you would on any PC.
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