In the game, a streaming video player will require the role of Freddy Pharkas, a 1880s-era pharmacist in the town of Coarsegold, California. Freddy was another time the gunslinger, but sought the newly career fallowing his survive shootout, where "Kenny the Kid" shot off one of his ears. Inside its place, Freddy at present wears the silver prosthetic ear.

Throughout a town, businesses come either existence bought or even owner come existence frightened away from town. Person is patently trying to require on top a entire region, however world health organization? & how come? A slimy sheriff doesn't seem eager to help, and then it's as much as Freddy to buy out a details.

A cast includes a town's nonconcentric husb& and story teller Whittlin' Willy, Srini (Freddy's "Injun" sidekick - actually Indian-as-in-India), town schoolmarm (& Freddy's love interest) Penelope Primm, & Madame Ovaree, world health organization diarrhea a local brothel.

A game utilizes Sierra's SCI1.1 engine, and features 256-color hand-drawn art, scaling sprites and a mouse-driven interface. Freddy Pharkas ran under two DOS and Windows 3.1. It was freed within two floppy disk and CD-ROM versions, the latter with fully voiceover speech for 100% characters. A punt's manual is entitled A Modern Day Book of Health & Hygiene, the parody of 19th century medical texts. It contains tools necessary for solving guide puzzles.

Notes
Freddy Pharkas is placed around Coarsegold, California, which was a location of Sierra's headquarters inside 1993.

A villain "Kenny the Kid" occurs as cartoonish version of Sierra's so-president Ken Williams.

Madame Ovaree's title is an perceptible parody of Madame Bovary.

Around at least a single print advertising for a game, Freddy Pharkas is said to exist as "the great-great-grandpappy of Leisure Suit Larry". (This is belike intended as a humourous nod to Al Lowe's other illustrious games like than an actual attempt to establish the genealogy for Larry.)

Al Lowe has said that he considers Freddy Pharkas one of his funniest games. He gives much of credit to Josh Mandel, who co-wrote a game, too when a few of a songs including the opening & closing ballads. (Mandel was a humourous collaborator in many Sierra games, including the Space Quest series and The Dagger of Amon Ra.)

Lowe admitted that his goal was to produce the laughable american game in the vein of Blazing Saddles. Freddy Pharkas emphatically contains its part of scatological humor: it might super easily hang on to the distinction of a sole video game where the streaming video player must capture a horse's flatulence in a carrier bag.