How to play Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game) on Mac

Game summary

Based on the film that's an adaptation of the Street Fighter franchise. Street Fighter: The Movie is a 2D, one-on-one fighting game that utilizes digitized graphics. You have a selection of 16 playable characters, 14 are immediately available and two are hidden. The roster mostly contains the familiar Street Fighter cast, even including some that are not in the film, such as Akuma. In addition, some characters are exclusive to this very game such as Sawada and Blade. This game is not to be confused with the home ports of Street Fighter: The Movie and it and the Arcade version are regarded as separate games. While the home ports use assets contained in the Arcade original, the stages and overall gameplay are different. The Arcade original features more experimental mechanics, whereas the home ports contains more traditional Street Fighter gameplay, mostly in the vein of Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
First released: Jun 1995

Play Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game) on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game) 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).

Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game) 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 Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game) like you would on any PC.
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