Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist Outtakes

**SPOILER ALERT: The first few seconds reveal the game's surprise ending, so don't watch this video unless you have already played the game or don't plan to play it in the near future or don't mind being spoiled.**

Long before Pixar started putting "outtakes" in the credits of their animated feature films, Sierra On-Line decided to put outtakes in the credits of their comedic western adventure game, "Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist".

FPFP came out in 1995 and it isn't a very well-known Sierra game (as opposed to the King's Quest and Gabriel Knight series), but as a creation of Al Lowe (of Leisure Suit Larry fame), it's positively bubbling over with humor both risque and juvenile, slight innuendos and a lot of gross puzzles.

...And it's the only adventure game I know of with outtakes in the credits!

Incidentally, the odd noise Shrini makes at 3:38 seems to be a recording error that wasn't ironed out in the speech version. In the non-speech version, he says, "Wotta you talkin' about? That wassa perfect! You doan' know an Indian accent-a iffa she hits you over da head!". Also, the director is played by the game's actual director, Josh Mandel, with Cam Clark as Gil/Freddy. UPDATE: I was very mistaken -- the director is played by an unidentified actor that is definitely NOT Josh Mandel.

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This video took much too much time and effort to complete. Using SnagIt to capture the video from the Windows version of FPFP screwed up the color palettes, and after playing through the entire DOS version (since I had no saved games for that version and couldn't find any to download), found that DOSbox's video capture feature doesn't capture MIDI music in FPFP (though it DID capture MIDI music in SQ6).

After experimenting over and over again to get the music synced with the video in Windows Movie Maker, the program suddenly became incapable of exporting an 18-meg video (the estimated time remaining went up and up while the progress bar remained at 0%). My final solution was to recapture the video with SnagIt while it was playing in WinAmp while playing the recorded MIDI music in another program, making sure to start it at *exactly* the right moment so it was correctly synced with the video. Amazingly, this worked...but was it all worth it?

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• freddy
• pharkas
• frontier
• pharmacist
• outtakes
• sierra
• online
• al
• lowe

[ryan489]

did they release a CD version of this game? I've played it before but it never had voice acting in it.

[Akril]

Yes, they did.

[LunaMoth116]

I think it was well worth it, for those of us who will probably never get to see or play the game. Thanks for all your hard work - I for one definitely appreciate it. 8-)

[Akril]

You're welcome!

[fradina]

Where did you happen to find this game?

[Akril]

I bought it at a computer fair a few years ago. It may be available on eBay or Amazon.

[Ixillius]

i could never get past the pharmacy part XD

[HardWarUK]

So glad I was old enough to a PC gamer in the early 90's!!!

[flavoredwallpaper]

This was my first of many adventure games. Good times, I still have my old floppies somewhere. Funny to hear voices, I need to check out this version.

[Alessio2468]

lol, great game!

[FooJones]

I liked this game. I never did finish it though.

[kakterius]

marvellous ^^ i played it in german a really good game... my cd broke right before the end ^^ and i never knew there where funny outtakes^^ i wonder if they are in english in the german version too... ah and by the way Simon 3D (as bad as the controll of the character and grafics and so on is it has one of the greatest endings ever ^^ with funny outtakes too^^ )

Kabooz

[ShinDarkfox]

That recording error sounds like a burp or hiccup. XD I think the effort was worth it though. Had no idea DOS games were so difficult to record. O_o

[KHayes666]

One of my favorite games of all time, everytime you give something to the banker he acts all confused and barks at you :-)