Sierra Saturday: Let's Play Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist - Ep.1 - Exposition
20It's Sierra Saturday! Let's play Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist! Where the affable eponymous pill-slinger Freddy does his best to keep the residents of Coarsegold in the year of 1888, through the questionable medicine of the wildest of the West. Does it have good ol' fashioned western snake oil medicine? You betcha! Culturally insensitive stereotypes? Of course. Raging alcoholism? What good old West fantasy wouldn't? Saddle up your hoss, and join us on our journey.
In this episode:
Reading medicine labels
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Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a standalone Sierra On-Line point 'n click adventure created by Josh Mandel and Al Lowe in 1993, and was described by Computer Gaming World as "The Blazing Saddles of computer games." It's an irreverent and unsubtle thrashing of Wild West tropes, and follows the misadventures of a former gunslinger-turned-pharmacist in the Coarsegold, California of the 1880s, trying to help maintain order through medicine, and keep a distance from his past.
The NPCs are playing the non-talkie DOS version, using the DOSBox Pure core through RetroArch with custom CRT shaders.
Sierra Saturday is a weekly series on the Level 0 NPCs channel, where Matt & Luke relive their childhoods playing classic adventure games of the '80s and '90s (and beyond?). Sierra adventure games were a special breed of dark humor, brutally unfair puzzles and unforgettable characters, and we hope you enjoy this walk down memory lane with us.
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Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is copyright © Sierra Online & Activision Blizzard
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00:00 Intro
00:17 Matt sort of sings
05:09 Press Play
06:28 The ol' disclaimer
15:56 Big Pharma
28:13 Obvious passion for the bit
31:10 Wrappin' up
32:54 Lew bails
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