How to play Popeye: Rush for Spinach on Mac

Game summary

Popeye: Rush for Spinach has Popeye throwing the gauntlet in a series of races on different vehicles, trying to defeat the fierce opposition presented by other popular characters, such as Olive Oyl, Wimpy and Brutus. The Magic Pockets-developed game features four fully playable characters, 12 races in richly detailed and interactive landscapes, 13 locomotion types for each character, and a four-player link mode with confrontation and cooperation.
First released: Apr 2005

Play Popeye: Rush for Spinach on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Popeye: Rush for Spinach 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).

Popeye: Rush for Spinach 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 Popeye: Rush for Spinach like you would on any PC.
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