Heroes & Cowards - The Pentagram of Power

He just wanted a comfy-chiller night in front of his TV when our hero was cast into a distant, medieval world by a mysterious force. The inhabitants of the cozy little country of Dartenwood were turned to stone by nasty magician Morlon - and only the Pentagram of Power can break the spell. However, its rubies are scattered throughout the land ... All of Dartenwood's hopes are now resting on a chosen one who's supposed to get everything under control. By some inexplicable cosmic twist of fate, YOU'RE supposed to be the one! Your journey from zero to hero includes a whole lot of jeopardies and unsolvable riddles - are you up for it? Are you a hero - or a coward?





Minimum system requirements:

C64 or C128 in C64 mode, 1541/1571 Floppy.



Also compatible with:

1541 Ultimate



This game is PAL only.





Over 20 years after their sensational Brubaker, Sebastian Broghammer and Steve Kups celebrate their triumphant comeback on the Commodore 64 in cooperation with Out of Order Softworks and Protovision. "Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power" is the adventure maniacs' long lost and eagerly anticipated magnum opus and will be presented on time for Gamescom 2015.





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Produced by: Byteriders and Out of Order Softworks

Distribution: Protovision

Author: Steve Kups und Sebastian Broghammer

Programm: Sebastian Broghammer, Stephan Lesch and Helfried Peyrl

Interpretercode: Steve Kups

Graphics: Phillip Bergmann and Martin Schemitsch

Sound: Stefan Hartwig and Taxim

Status updates:

Fresh Heroes & Cowards available

(News written on 16.09.2016) Due to the high demand, we have reproduced Heroes & Cowards again. The noble steel box edition with its translucent disk sleeve, thick manual including a Byteriders interview and pentagram keychain in now available again in its unusually beautiful metal casing.



More Protovision games at itch.io

(News written on ) As we cannot sell downloads to non-Germany-based-customers through our shop, we started to offer our downloads also via itch.io where they are available to everyone. Now, *all* Protovision downloads are also available on our itch.io page! We also created PC/OSX Emubundle versions of most of the games so you have the possibility to run the games on such unworthy computers more easily.



NEWS FROM THE C64 SCENE: Scene World #26

(News written on 15.05.2016) The PAL & NTSC disk magazine Scene World #26 has been released recently, and you can also find a video review of Heroes & Cowards there (and a text version of that review). You may download SWO #26 from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=147994

Disk cover: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=147996 Or you can read it directly online via a web emulator: http://sceneworld.org/emu/swo26.html And here is the video review of Heroes & Cowards:

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Reset Magazine #08 Released – with a Focus on Adventures

(News written on 23.02.2016) The eighth release of the English language magazine „Reset“ has a focus on Adventure games. We’re featured twice in this particular issue: with D42, and with Heroes & Cowards by Out of Order Softworks. Heroes & Cowards scored 9 out of 10 points for its great graphics, entertaining story, and its interesting locations and items – and was rated „Reset… RIPPER!“

The catchy soundtrack was popular with the testers as well. Not to forget the D42-Adventure System that allows you to easily build your own graphical adventure for the C64; programming skills not required. The D42-Adventure System scored 8 out of 10 points in their test. You’ll find these and many more interesting tests, information and C64 game news in the current issue – get it right here: http://reset.cbm8bit.com/?dir=issue8



Welcome back to Dartenwood!

(News written on 23.10.2015) After the first batch of Heroes & Cowards has sold out in no time, the game is finally available again at Protovision shop. Once more, we’re talking limited stock – visiting our shop as soon as possible is thus very much recommended to all lovers of humorous graphic adventures in elaborately designed boxes!

