which "can make a jaded player laugh out loud frequently". He wrote that although "satirizing the Wild West is by no means a new idea", the developers "manage to find new jokes to crack and new ways to crack old ones ... never runs out of material", including satires of other computer games, both Sierra's and others'. Game Informer in September 2006 called it one of the best adventure games of all time, and gave it a Retro Review score of 9.0. According to Al Lowe, Freddy Pharkas "sold well into six figures." However, he noted that the game and Torin's Passage "had a reputation as failures at Sierra". He explained that the game sold over 150,000 after roughly a year, which inspired the team to re-release it on CD-ROM. This new edition "sold well for two years", and drove the game's lifetime sales to 500,000 copies. Lowe remarked, "It turned out to be quite a successful game and probably should've had a sequel, but because it took three years to get those big numbers, Josh had moved on by then and other things had happened, so it fell through the cracks." In 2011, Adventure Gamers named Freddy Pharkas the 78th-best adventure game ever released. References External links Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist at Al Lowe's personal website Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist review (Adventure Classic Gaming) with commentary from Josh Mandel 1993 video games Adventure games Classic Mac OS games DOS games Medical video games Point-and-click adventure games ScummVM-supported games Sierra Entertainment games Video games scored by Al Lowe Video games scored by Aubrey Hodges Video games set in California Video games set in the United States Western (genre) video games Windows games Video games developed in the United States Single-player video games