
	Platform PC Genre Adventure Developer/Publisher Sierra On-Line Released 1993
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Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist

Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist was an attempt at a "cleaner" game by Al Lowe, who was best known for the Leisure Suit Larry series. Much to everyone's satisfaction, this was only a partial success as this game still includes the same level of sick jokes, site gags, and near fatal flatulence that you come to expect from our man Al. Just remember, there is no such thing as too many sheep-lovin' jokes in a computer game that would just limit his greatness.

You control Freddy Pharkas, an ex-gun fighter who had his left ear shot off in a gun fight with the villainous Kenny the Kid. After that experience, he decides to give up the gun fighting lifestyle and becomes a pharmacist. With his pharmacology degree, he moves to California and becomes Coaresgold’s alchemist for a post-gold rush town. Your goal is to figure out who is trying to run people out of your town all the while thwarting their attempts at scaring the populace away - and keeping up with your prescriptions.

To help you on your way are your girlfriend, the schoolmarm Penelope, your advisor, the grizzled Whittlin' Willy, and your faithful Indian companion, Srini Lalkaka Bagdnish from India. You’d think that for the most part they would be a pretty useless group, and you'd be absolutely right, however, you have your pharmacology

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talents and maybe you could find a six shooter (it is the West so no six day waiting period for you). The game possesses a veritable cornucopia of interesting characters, the villainous Sheriff and P.H. Balance at the Bank of Bob and who could forget Sissy, the boy whose mother dresses him funny.

The game requires you to face off against these challenges: horses with lethal flatulence, a severe case of diarrhea, a crooked poker player, a gang of sheep rustlers, and finally a rematch with

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Kenny the Kid. Never in this game does the direct approach work, so you’d better dust off that bass-awkward way of thinking and down a cold sixer before working through these problems. You might want to bring along a four year old to help you solve some tricks because they sometimes take the most base way of thinking to solve these problems.

There is no way to truly express how great this game was and still is, anything written would fall short of describing how much this game meant to Sierra fans in the early '90s. This game is drop down funny and let me tell you that if you've never played it before that you are really missing out on a phenomenon, and if you've done it before dust it off and relive those great memories and this time sit through the whole credits. At the end of the credits are a collection of "goof-ups" that would make Jim Carrey proud, and don't forget to read all the credits for a collection of great one liners (the one about killing or maiming 81 animals because they wanted realism still makes me chuckle).

- Tazman


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