Description
Set in the American West of the 1880s, Freddy Pharkas was one of the fastest guns in the west. 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 Corsegold 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 side-scrolling adventure game from
Al Lowe. As such it has many similarities to other Sierra adventure games including
Leisure Suit Larry (Al Lowe's previous work) and
King's Quest. Players use the action bar at the top of the screen to choose an action type that is used on 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.
Alternate Titles
- "多情藥師酷牛仔" -- Chinese Title (Tradition)
- "הטוב הרע והרוקח (The Good, the bad and the pharmacist)" -- Israeli title
- "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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Trivia
In the Saloon, switch the music by talking to the piano player and ask
"Zircon Jim's Theme". It's the Leisure Suit Larry Theme :)
