How to play Return of the Ninja on Mac

Game summary

What your enemy fears the most is something it cannot see: You! A mysterious army has attacked the land of Koga and stolen an ancient and sacred scroll. As a highly trained ninja, it's up to you to find out who is behind the trouble and recover Koga's precious treasure. To accomplish this, you'll need to recover six secret ninja tools hidden from the invaders. The enemy army may outnumber you a thousand to one, but you are a master of stealth-- and every military leader knows that a blind enemy is a vanquished foe. -Play as a male or female ninja character. -Collect six special ninja tools. -Earn ninja trading cards by completing levels -Trade ninja trading cards with other Return of the Ninja game owners.
First released: Apr 2001

Play Return of the Ninja on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Return of the Ninja 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).

Return of the Ninja 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 Return of the Ninja like you would on any PC.
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