How to play Winky Trap on Mac

Game summary

Winky Trap is an arcade action game similar to Pac-Man. You control Winky in a maze; your goal is to eat all dots in order to score points and move on to the next maze. It's a hacked version of Mouse Trap where the characters where replaced from ColecoVision's game Venture. Only 5 games were produced and they all sold over 200$ each.
First released: Dec 1997

Play Winky Trap on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Winky Trap 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).

Winky Trap 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 Winky Trap like you would on any PC.
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