How to play Touch Pong on Mac
Game summary
Touch Pong is the first game EVER brought to the Mac App Store to use the brand new Touch Bar.
Pong - one of the first games ever created, brought to you using the newest apple hardware.
FEATURES:
• Brand new Touch Bar support to control your Pong paddle
• A computer opponent which improves as you play!
• Three difficulty modes to test your skill: Easy, Standard & Difficult
• Local Multiplayer - Player 1 can use the touch bar or arrow keys and Player 2 uses the trackpad.
• Simple, modern and high quality graphics
• Can be played on Macs without Touch Bar too
FEATURED ON:
Venture Beat
"If you have a new MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, then there’s a great new game for you to play. It’s a variation on Pong, the Atari classic from the 1970s."
Macworld
"Ferdinand Loesch’s TouchBar Pong turns the new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar into a modern take on the classic video game Pong."
"a perfect way to kill some time and play with Apple’s latest innovation!"
CNET
"This is by far the funnest of the group, and works well enough to play for an extended amount of time."
Popular Mechanics
"Pong is one of those classic games that never dies, it just gets reborn into different forms. In this case, it's reborn on the Macbook Touch Bar. Control your paddle with the touch bar, or for less fun, with the arrow keys."
First released: Jan 2017
Play Touch Pong on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Touch Pong 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).
Touch Pong 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 Touch Pong like you would on any PC.
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