The weird video gaming antiquities that turn up never cease to amaze me. This one is an early 90s PC point and click style adventure game. ‘Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist’ is a game where you play as the title character who owns a pharmacy in the old west and keeps his past life a secret…yes, it’s as strange as it sounds. I read that this came about when one of the game’s creators tried to say frontier and rancher quickly and somehow spat out a word that sounded like pharmacist, so that’s the direction it went.

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