Cam Clarke as Freddy Pharkas Lewis Arquette as Whittlin' Willie / P. H. Balance Bill Bryant as Doc Gillespie Michael Gough as Kenny the Kid / Salvatore O'Hanrahan Nicholas Guest as Srini / Hop Singh Jocko Marcellino as Smithie Richard Paul as Chester Field / Sheriff Shift Jan Rabson as Sam Andreas / Wheaton Hall / Zircon Jim Laffer Neil Ross as The Narrator Susan Silo as Helen Back / Madame Ovaree Kath Soucie as Penelope Primm Development history Al Lowe has said that he considers Freddy Pharkas one of his funniest games. He gives a good deal of credit to Josh Mandel, who co-wrote the game, as well as some of the songs including the opening and closing ballads. (Mandel was a collaborator on several Sierra games, including the Space Quest series and The Dagger of Amon Ra.) 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 not only left out many jokes, but many clues and hints as well". Lowe admitted that his goal was to make a comic western game in the vein of Blazing Saddles. Freddy Pharkas definitely contains its share of scatological humor: it may very well hold the distinction of the first computer game in which the player must capture a horse's flatulence in a paper bag. Reception Charles Ardai praised the game in Computer Gaming World in 1993, stating that "Freddy Pharkas is the Blazing Saddles of computer games", with better humor and puzzles than the Leisure Suit Larry series and