How to play Sesame Street: Elmo's 123s on Mac

Game summary

Get ready to come and play and learn in SESAME STREET: Elmo's 123s for the Game Boy Color. Preschoolers love Elmo it's a simple fact of life and your kids or siblings will have a fun time here while they learn their numbers. There are four basic math concepts to be enjoyed: addition, subtraction, counting, and number pattern recognition. Elmo is the official welcoming committee to visitors from the Planet Zap, and he needs help counting all the stars so his visiting outerspace pals will turn the Sesame Street lights back on. Four cheerful and challenging games await: "How Many Stars," "Beam That Number," "Adding Countdown," and "Take It Away." In "Stars." you'll count how many stars that a speeding spaceship has left in its wake; "Beam" has you beam a spotlight over three patterns. Correctly match the patterns to the number in the lower right hand of the screen and watch rockets blast into space. "Countdown" has you flying with your jetpack and solving three addition equations, and "Take It Away" is similar, only learning subtraction is the goal. SESAME STREET: Elmo's 123s from NewKidCo will keep you entertained while you master your numbers.
First released: Apr 1999

Play Sesame Street: Elmo's 123s on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Sesame Street: Elmo's 123s 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).

Sesame Street: Elmo's 123s 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 Sesame Street: Elmo's 123s like you would on any PC.
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