How to play Richard Scarry's Busytown on Mac

Game summary

This early version is different from its PC counterpart with this version featuring six different stages to choose from and each with their own type of gameplay: • Bruno's Deli: The player takes control of Huckle Cat as they help Bruno serve his customers by selecting the items they have requested on a conveyor belt. • Captain Salty: The player uses Huckle again and uses a crane to piece together Salty's ship by dropping them in the required spot which is marked. • Building House: This is essentially the same as Captain Salty's stage, except this time around the player is building a house instead of a ship. • Delivery Truck: The player uses Huckle and Lowly Worm to deliver various objects to their required shops while avoiding various obstacles such as trashcans, crossing chickens and chairs to name a few. • Fire Station: This time the player takes control of a pig fire fighter and transverse Busytown in a fire truck, collecting various firefighter-related objects while avoiding obstacles. After each object is collected, the player is then taken to a house fire where they must put out the fire and rescue the trapped animals inside. • The Wind: The player can become the wind and shown a top-down map of Busytown and using a whirlwind can interact with various objects on the screen to view animations. Additionally, the player can choose these different locations at the main screen that has the player become Lowly Worm and fly around the map using his Apple Helicopter. It also features many characters from Scarry's children's books.
First released: Dec 1993

Play Richard Scarry's Busytown on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Richard Scarry's Busytown 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).

Richard Scarry's Busytown 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 Richard Scarry's Busytown like you would on any PC.
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