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Puzzles can cure any ailment.


<span class="bold">Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist</span>, a satirical point & click Western by legendary designers Al Lowe and Josh Mandel, is available now DRM-free on GOG.com!

It's been awhile since Freddy hung up his gunslinging shoes and re-invented himself as a small-town pharmacist but trouble is brewing once again. Snail stampedes, diarrhea epidemics, gassy steeds, Poker thieves - there's a cure for everything, as long as you point & click at the right place. Or know how to make proper use of your silver ear.
Damm! If only all pixel graphics games were this good-looking.
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Breja: Looks like a westen themed Monkey Island wannabe. Which isn't a bad thing, really. I love point & clicks and not many are set in the Wild West. Wishlisted.
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gamesfreak64: same here, point and click are my favorite games.
do you know the game : Tony Tough and the night of roasted moths ?

I got it at gamersgate, its a nice old game (drm free) and youtube has walkthroughs.

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PaterAlf: Nice. And it also comes with some nice extras (hintbook, design documents). I still have the CD somewhere, but I guess I'll pick up a backup copy.
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gamesfreak64: i have the old KQ cd with KQ 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 it was part of an old box with several game cd's , its quite old, ofcourse the games dont work, thats why i got the GoG versions.
Which games do you have on GOG? And what is your favorite game? You have a list?
Never thought I'd see the day! Thank you GOG to keep going after these awesome classics, I'm soooo happy you finally were able to convince Activision to release another classic Sierra title on GOG! Now keep going, like so many here have already mentioned, we are still missing so many classic Sierra titles here. I want more! :-) Definitely instabuying Freddie right now!
I guess it's unlikely to happen because it's based on Arthur C. Clarke's work, but Rama is another Sierra title.
Nice, but where is Conquest of Longbow/Camelot, Laura Bow 1-2 etc?! What took them so long?
I never heard of this one, and I thought I remembered all of the sierra games.

Is this a pixel hunter type of adventure?
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muntdefems: GOG, I'm curious: when you release an old game using DosBox, how do you decide if you're gonna offer Mac and Linux versions? I mean, most of the recent oldies are available for all 3 OSs (Pizza Tycoon, Ignition, Lost Eden(?), Constructor...), Freddy Pharkas isn't. Is it because of technical issues?
Sierra:
https://www.gog.com/games?devpub=sierra&amp;sort=bestselling&amp;page=1
Activision:
https://www.gog.com/games?devpub=activision&amp;sort=bestselling&amp;page=1

EA:
https://www.gog.com/games?devpub=electronic_arts&amp;sort=bestselling&amp;page=1

See a pattern? ;)
More or less, but not entirely. Activision for sure, but e.g. some of the Larry games are available for Mac and even for Linux, and many EA games are available for Mac.

And if it's really down to the publisher, I don't really understand it. It's not even a matter of opportunity cost, at least when it comes to DOS games: it'd only be a matter of GOG pre-configuring DosBox or ScummVM, the right owners wouldn't have to do anything and they would be able to sell the games to more people.
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muntdefems: More or less, but not entirely. Activision for sure, but e.g. some of the Larry games are available for Mac and even for Linux, and many EA games are available for Mac.
The Larry games don't belong to Activision, though.
I remember getting this on floppy disk back when it was brand new. It had a brown almost imitation leather embossed (paper) slip box. It might have been the first PC game I ever bought. It was interesting (to say the least) playing a game about pharmacy when I was 10 years old. I believe this is what lead me to Leisure Suit Larry 6 (which I bought about a year later).

If I remember correctly, we later got the CD edition packed as a bonus in one of those Walmart 10 CD Jewel Case packs back in '94 or '95.

It was a cool adventure game that I look back upon fondly. It will be interesting to play through this again sometime, because I'm certain a lot of the humor went right over my head as a kid. I never expected it to show up on GOG but I'm glad you guys go it, now if you guys can just get Willy Beamish...
YES

Now please bring the rest of the Sierra/Dynamix catalogs!
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Smannesman: Freddyyyy Freddy Pharkas.. something something frontier.
Nice game, is it the full talkie version?
Last I checked the talkie had a lot of jokes cut due to time and budget issues with the VA cast.
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muntdefems: More or less, but not entirely. Activision for sure, but e.g. some of the Larry games are available for Mac and even for Linux, and many EA games are available for Mac.
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Grargar: The Larry games don't belong to Activision, though.
Exactly. My point was that Activision is the only dev/publisher mentioned by Klumpen0815 that really seems to ignore macOS and Linux. The Codemasters-owned Sierra games (the Larry ones) are available here for other OSs than Windows, and many of the EA ones are available for macOS.
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muntdefems: Exactly. My point was that Activision is the only dev/publisher mentioned by Klumpen0815 that really seems to ignore macOS and Linux. The Codemasters-owned Sierra games (the Larry ones) are available here for other OSs than Windows, and many of the EA ones are available for macOS.
Oh, OK. Activision isn't the only big publisher that doesn't offer macOS/Linux builds for their DOSBox games, though. There are also 2K Games, Bethesda and Ubisoft.
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Grargar: The Larry games don't belong to Activision, though.
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muntdefems: Exactly. My point was that Activision is the only dev/publisher mentioned by Klumpen0815 that really seems to ignore macOS and Linux. The Codemasters-owned Sierra games (the Larry ones) are available here for other OSs than Windows, and many of the EA ones are available for macOS.
The obvious patterns I hoped people to discover in those links:

Activision is Windoze only and EA hates Linux.