Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist CD

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (CD)	Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (CD)
 	
Developer(s) 	Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s) 	Sierra On-Line
Director(s) 	Josh Mandel
Producer(s) 	Josh Mandel
Designer(s) 	Al Lowe, Josh Mandel
Writer(s) 	Al Lowe, Josh Mandel
Lead Programmer(s) 	Steve Conrad
Lead Artist(s) 	Bob Gleason, Karin Young
Composer(s) 	Aubrey Hodges
Platform(s) 	MS-DOS, Windows 3.x
Release 	1994
Genre(s) 	Point-and-click adventure
Mode(s) 	Single-player
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist CD is a comic Old West adventure computer game created by Al Lowe (of Leisure Suit Larry fame) and Josh Mandel (of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon fame) and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. It was dubbed "the Blazing Saddles of computer games" by Computer Gaming Magazine.
== Gameplay ==
On at least one box containing the CD-ROM version of the game, it states "Meet the Great-Great Grandpappy of Leisure Suit Larry!", referring to Zircon Jim Laffer who makes a (belated) appearance in the game. However, the game's original intent may have instead been to portray Zircon Jim as Leisure Suit Larry's great-great-great uncle. [edit] Copy Protection
As a form of copy protection, the recipes for the prescriptions are only found in the manual.
==Development History==
There are some differences with script between the Floppy and CD versions. In particular the cd abridges many lines, many of the narrator's comments are cut and replaced with generic you cannot do that messages.
The name labels from above characters portraits are removed, since the CD-ROM has no subtitles their names are not seeable in the CD version.
There is some adlibbing that goes on in the CD-Rom version, therefore some spoken dialog is missing from the game texts.
Mandel had explained in a commentary the reason why there were so many more jokes in the Floppy Disk version as compared to the CD-ROM version of the game, "I had co-designed, directed, produced, and written the floppy version; there were no plans at all, at the time, to produce a CD version. When sales of the floppy version justified a CD version, I was no longer available to produce and direct it, having by then started on SQ6. Al Lowe was then tapped to do the casting and recording of the CD version, but the game already had so much text in it that, when it came time to record the inventory text, Al just stopped—he was, he said, tired of sitting in the sound studio. As I had written the vast majority of the game’s text and dialogue, I pointed out to him that, in the process of cutting roughly 15% of the game’s text from the recording, he’d left out many of the jokes".
==Credits ==
*Game Designers / Writing / Dialogue / Story: Al Lowe and Josh Mandel
*Director / Producer: Josh Mandel
*Lead Programmer: Steve Conrad
*Art Designer: Bob Gleason
*Lead Animator: Karin A. Young
*Programming: Steve Conrad, Cynthia L. Swafford, and William Shockley
*Additional Programming: Juan Carlos Escobar, Brian K. Hughes, and Doug Oldfield
*Systems Programming: Vana Baker, Ed Critchlow, Dan Foy, Brian K. Hughes, Ken Koch, Jack Magné, J. Mark Hood, Terry McHenry, Martin Peters, Larry Scott, Christopher Smith, and Mark Wilden
*Artists / Animators: Bob Gleason, Ruben Huante, Phy "No Relation" Williams, and Karin Ann Young
*Additional Animation: Jeff Crowe, Joan Delehanty, Maria Fruehe, Gloria Garland, Michael Hutchison, Tony Margioni, Jerry (Gerald) Moore, Cindy Walker, Christopher "Smokehouse" Willis, and Deanna Yhalkee
*Character Designer: Ruben Huante
*Composer / Sound: Aubrey Hodges
*Additional Sound Effects: Richard Spurgeon
*Quality Assurance: Mike W. Pickhinke
*Customer Service Liaisons: Mike Weiner and Karry Buchanan
*Configuration Lead: Douglas Wheeler
*Quality Assurance: Mike (Michael) Brosius, Dave Clingman, Keri Cooper, Lynne S. Dayton, Tina Deardorff, Mike (Michael D.) Jones, John Meek, Diana Mulligan, Sharon Simmons
*Additional QA: Joe Carper, Judy Crites, Bill Davis Jr., John Ratcliffe, Sharon Hoban-Smith, and Danny A. Woolard
*Special Thanks to: Bob (Robert) Ballew, Nathan Gams, and Alan Mandel
===Voice Cast===
*The Narrator: Neil Ross
*Freddy Pharkas: Cam Clarke
*Penelope Primm: Kath Soucie
*Whittlin' Willie / P. H. Balance: Lewis Arquette
*Doc Gillespie: Bill Bryant
*Kenny the Kid / Salvatore O'Hanrahan: Michael Gough
*Srini / Hop Singh: Nicholas Guest
*Smithie: Jocko Marcellino
*Chester Field / Sheriff Shift: Richard Paul
*Sam Andreas / Wheaton Hall / Zircon Jim Laffer: Jan Rabson
*Helen Back / Madame Ovaree: Susan Silo
This adventure game is a work of fiction and is protected under the law under the general heading of parody, which means we can get away with everything we said and did in the game. If not, we'll just fall back on that old "the people and events described herein bear no relation to any real or imagined people and events" loophole.
A total of 34 animals were injured or maimed in the making of this game. After all, we could accept nothing less than total and complete realism.
==Availability==
The CD-Rom versions (along with the floppy version) can now currently be obtained on GOG.com since February 02, 2017.
==External Links==
*Freddy Pharkas website
*Al Lowe's Humor Site, Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist
*Sierra Help, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist Help
*The Sierra Chest, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
*Moby Games, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
*The Cutting Room Floor, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
*Sierra Music Central, Freddy Pharkas Soundtrack
===Larry Larry Dot Net===
*Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
*Freddy Pharkas Hints
*Freddy Pharkas Points
*Freddy Pharkas Walk Thru
*Freddy Pharkas Ads
*Freddy Pharkas Ballad
*Freddy Pharkas Manual
*Freddy Pharkas Outtakes
===Museum of Computer Adventure Game History===
*Museum of Computer Adventure Game History, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (CD-ROM)
*Museum of Computer Adventure Game History, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (SierraOriginals)
*Museum of Computer Adventure Game History, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (SierraOriginals Alt. 3)
*Museum of Computer Adventure Game History, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (SierraOriginals Alt. 4)
===Guides and Walkthroughs===
*GameFAQs, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
*The Walkthrough King, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
*The Spoiler Centre, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
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