How to play Thunder Alley on Mac

Game summary

THUNDER ALLEY for Game Boy Advance features characters first presented to the gaming community in TEN PIN ALLEY and TEN PIN ALLEY 2 available for Play Station 1 and Saturn systems. The stock car racing game comes loaded with tons of fast-paced action and entertaining tracks. Choose from eight different characters to blaze out on one of four diverting tracks. The game was created with the realistic laws of physics that are applied to real stock car racing to provide a realistic racing feel. The game offers a practice racing mode that allows players to get the feel for the basic controls including 'A' for accelerate and 'B' for brake. Tournament mode has players racing to earn points that are awarded based on the finishing position of each player's character. Every course has its own unique set of obstacles that can get in the way, but the player can drive over them with power ups. Power ups also provide the driver with improved steering and speed. If the player wins the game's final tournament, a secret play mode is unlocked and can be played by the winner. Fans of racing games including cart or other forms of transportation should give THUNDER ALLEY a try and won't be disappointed. In a game that offers fun graphics, sound effects, and tracks that can be played over and over again, this game guarantees hours of unique and endless entertainment.
First released: Jul 2004

Play Thunder Alley on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Thunder Alley 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).

Thunder Alley 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 Thunder Alley like you would on any PC.
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