Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993) PC Playthrough - NintendoComplete
398A beginning to end playthrough of the CD DOS version of Sierra's 1993 Western/comedy graphic adventure, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist.
A thoroughly representative example of the best the games that the classic point-and-click genre ever saw during its heyday on the PC. Headed up by Al Lowe (the mastermind behind the Leisure Suit Larry games), this one somehow manages to trump every one of Mr. Laffer's adventures, and it even gives ol' Larry a cameo in a saloon here!
The voice acting is hysterical, putting it right in line with the general nature of the quality of the game's entire script. The graphics are amazingly detailed and animated for its time, and the puzzles are wickedly difficult but extremely clever... except for those infuriating med lab puzzles that served as the games copy protection scheme. The jokes often get raunchy, but not the blatant kind that many games went for (as in "boobs, hahaha"): it relies a lot more on innuendo and amusing puns than straight up vulgarity for the sake of shock value.
If you haven't played this game, do it! It flattens most of Sierra's thoroughly excellent adventure game lineup, and shows up the great majority of LucasArts' efforts from the same era. In short - it's goddamn stellar.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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