How to play Power Lords on Mac
Game summary
Power Lords is a game released for the Odyssey 2. It is based on the toy line from the 1980s that bears this name.
To start the game, press 1 on the keyboard.
You have just arrived at Volcan Rock - an artificial planetoid defended by a laser-eyed space serpent and other minions of the evil Extra-Terrestrial Alliance!
Use the joystick of the right hand control to fly the space sled.
Press the action button to fire your lasers.
Warning! Your space sled can be destroyed by falling lava, rocks, contact with the space serpent's body or a blast from it laser eyes.
Gryptogg, Raygoth and Arkus of the Extra-Terrestrial Alliance, will periodically open doors in the volcano to fire a gravitational ray. The higher your score, the stronger the artificial gravity fields will become and the more likely you will be drawn to your doom.
Direct hits of your lasers will stun the space serpent and destroy falling rocks. You can defeat the gravitational ray by blasting the door in the volcano.
SCORING:
- Blasting lava during volcanic eruption: 3 points
- Stunning the space serpent: 15 points
- Hitting an open door: 45 points
- Destroying lava rock: 75 points
- Surviving a volcanic eruption: 1000 points
The score of your current game appears at the lower right of your screen.
The high score in a series of games will appear at the lower left of your screen.
Two question marks request the initials of the high scoring player. The high scoring player enters his or her initials through the keyboard. The high score and the high scoring player's initials will remain on the screen until a higher score is achieved in succeeding games.
To start a new scoring round press RESET and then press 1.
First released: Dec 1983
Play Power Lords on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Power Lords 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).
Power Lords 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 Power Lords like you would on any PC.
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