High Seas Havoc

Review scores
Famitsu	26/40
GamePro	4/5
Mean Machines	64/100

High Seas Havoc
High Seas Havoc
	North American cover art
Developer(s)	Data East
Publisher(s)	Data East (NTSC); Codemasters (PAL)
Designer(s)	Akira Ohtani
Programmer(s)	Yasuhiro Matsuda; Hiroyasu Fujimaru
Artist(s)	Mutsunori Sato; Megumi Shinya; Yoichi Kodama
Composer(s)	Emi Shimizu; Masaaki Iwasaki
Platform(s)	Mega Drive/Genesis; Arcade
Release	NA: August 16, 1993; JP: April 22, 1994; PAL: 1994;
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player

High Seas Havoc, known in Japan as Captain Lang (キャプテンラング, Kyaputen Rangu) and in Europe as Capt'n Havoc, is a video game that was made for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by Data East. It was also released in the arcades running on a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis based arcade cabinet.

Plot

The story is about an anthropomorphic pirate seal named Havoc (Lang in the Japanese version), his young sidekick Tide (Land in the Japanese version), a girl named Bridget, and an evil walrus pirate named Bernardo. Bernardo is looking for Emeralda, a gem with powers that can cause whole armies to be toppled. A map shows where Emeralda is located, and Bernardo is looking for the map. Havoc and Tide discover Bridget unconscious at a beach. When she wakes up in a dwelling, she instructs Havoc to keep her and the map safe. Havoc hides the map in a cliff. After Bernardo's henchmen kidnaps Bridget and Tide, Havoc sets off to rescue them.

Gameplay

Each level apart from the first two and last one have two acts. The Cape Sealph level was removed from the European version.

Development

Reception

High Seas Havoc received generally positive reviews.

Tony Ponce for Destructoid called the game a rip-off of Sonic the Hedgehog.^[5]

References

↑ Designer information (in Japanese) at Ambelo
↑ "NEW GAMES CROSS REVIEW: ドラゴンボールZ 武勇烈伝". Famitsu (ASCII Corporation) (280): 38. April 29, 1994. https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=7732&redirect=no. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
↑ Manny LaManche (February 1994). "ProReview". GamePro (55): 58. https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_055_February_1994/page/n59/mode/2up/.
↑ "MegaDrive Review". Mean Machines (19): 70–72. May 1994. https://archive.org/details/meanmachinessega19/page/n71/mode/2up/.
↑ Ponce, Tony (July 24, 2010). "Off-Brand Games: High Seas Havoc". Destructoid. https://www.destructoid.com/off-brand-games-high-seas-havoc-179427.phtml. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

External links

Mainichi Interactive page on Captain Lang

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[1] Designer information (in Japanese) at Ambelo

[PCEFamRev-2] "NEW GAMES CROSS REVIEW: ドラゴンボールZ 武勇烈伝". Famitsu (ASCII Corporation) (280): 38. April 29, 1994. https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=7732&redirect=no. Retrieved July 13, 2022.

[3] Manny LaManche (February 1994). "ProReview". GamePro (55): 58. https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_055_February_1994/page/n59/mode/2up/.

[4] "MegaDrive Review". Mean Machines (19): 70–72. May 1994. https://archive.org/details/meanmachinessega19/page/n71/mode/2up/.

[5] Ponce, Tony (July 24, 2010). "Off-Brand Games: High Seas Havoc". Destructoid. https://www.destructoid.com/off-brand-games-high-seas-havoc-179427.phtml. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

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