High Seas Havoc

North American cover art

Developer(s)| Data East
Publisher(s)| Data East (NTSC)
Codemasters (PAL)
Designer(s)| Akira Ohtani[1]
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.

## Contents

* 1 Plot
* 2 Gameplay
* 3 Development
* 4 Reception
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## 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

Reception

| Review scores

Publication| Score
Famitsu| 26/40[2]
GamePro| 4/5[3]
Mean Machines| 64/100[4]

High Seas Havoc received generally positive reviews.

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

## References

1. ↑ Designer information (in Japanese) at Ambelo
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.

## External links

* Mainichi Interactive page on Captain Lang

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