Software Adventure Games - Freddy Pharkas
Assault Trooper
Genre: Adventure Game
Production: by Sierra On-Line
Publication date: 1993
Description:
"Al Lowe, author of Leisure Suit Larry, abuses the Old West in computerdom's first Comedy Western: Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist.And you get to live that legend...
the tall-but-twisted tale of a man raised as a gunslinger, who game it all up for his first love: pharmacology!The year is 1888; the setting, post-Gold Rush California.
As Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist, you uncover a treacherous plot to turn your once-thriving metropolis into a ghost town.
With pestles and pistols, you defend your bucolic burg from one catastrophe after another: arson, stampedes, hired guns, riverboat gamblers...even terminal flatulence!Al Lowe has stolen...er, immortalized...every Hollywood Western cliche' and character, adding his own perverse twists to produce his funniest game yet! You'll meet the pretty-but-shy Schoolmarm, the Madame with a Heart-of-Gold, the faithful Indian sidekick (Srini Lalkaka Bagdnish), and a cast of the most memorable characters ever to grace your monitor's silver screen."