Freddy Pharkas was one of the fastest guns in the American West of the 1880's. However in one particular gunfight with an outlaw named Kenny he was outgunned and Freddy had his ear shot off. This traumatic experience caused Freddy to give up his pistols and enroll in the school of pharmacology. Blocking out the memories of his past, Freddy arrives in the town of Coarsegold with the dream to own and run his own pharmacy. Working with the town's doctor, Freddy is able to fill prescriptions, mix concoctions and diagnose simple symptoms. Business among the townsfolk is brisk however, the good times are not to last as suddenly townsfolk are run out of town and businesses are being foreclosed and boarded up. Freddy must deal with the town's problems, and discover the larger plot, or risk having a fancy shop in an empty town and losing all his customers.

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a humorous point-and-click adventure game bearing many similarities to other Sierra titles in the same genre, in particular Leisure Suit Larry series. Players use the command bar at the top of the screen to choose a verb command that is combined with locations and objects visible to the player. Freddy can walk to new locations, look at particular objects, attempt to use objects, talk to people and enter his inventory to access items that have been picked up. Like other Sierra games, successful actions add to the player's score, judging the player on 1000 points.

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Alternate Titles

"多情藥師酷牛仔" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
"הטוב הרע והרוקח (The Good, the bad and the pharmacist)" -- Hebrew spelling
"Freddy Pharkas, le Cow-Boy Pharmacien" -- French title
"Freddy Pharkas: Cowboy Farmacéutico" -- Spanish title
"Freddy Pharkas: Cowboy Apotheker" -- German title
"Freddy Pharkas, Apotheker im Wilden Westen" -- Alternate German title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (German Language Edition - Deutsche Sprachausgabe)	DOS
	Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist	DOS	$13.95
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User Reviews

Remember those times when adventure games were fun?	Unicorn Lynx (132760)
Very funny and inventive, but not without flaws	Adam Luoranen (78)
Freddy Pharkas rules... all other games BURN IN HELL!	B14ck W01f (37398)
A classic, hilarious sierra adventure	Andrew Grasmeder (205)
Novel adventure with flawed implementation	pogalogen (14)
This game could have been much better than it turned out	OceansDaughter (105)
Okay, it's funny. But those puzzles are grotesque!	-Chris (7375)	unrated
Sierra mix more good medicine	jossiejojo (43)

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The Press Says

Adventure Classic Gaming	Apr 17, 2006	5 out of 5	100
Freegame.cz	Jul 22, 2007	92 out of 100	92
Power Unlimited	Nov, 1993	8.9 out of 10	89
Datormagazin	Jun, 1993	4 out of 5	80
Adventure Gamers	May 06, 2004		80
Power Play	Jun, 1993	74 out of 100	74
PC Player (Germany)	Jun, 1993	68 out of 100	68
Aventura y Cía	Dec 07, 2002		60

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Trivia

There was a demo version of Freddy Pharkas on a Sierra sampler CD. When you wanted to acess a new area or use a special item, a little window would pop up and contain a FMV with Al Lowe that explained that if you want to use this, get the full version. If you continued trying to use the item, you would get hauled off to jail by a sherrif.

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