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High Seas Havoc

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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[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.

Plot

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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

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

Development

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Reception

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High Seas Havoc received generally positive reviews.

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

References

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  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 (in Japanese). No. 280. ASCII Corporation. April 29, 1994. p. 38. Archived from the original on July 13, 2022. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  3. ^ Manny LaManche (February 1994). "ProReview". GamePro. No. 55. p. 58.
  4. ^ "MegaDrive Review". Mean Machines. No. 19. May 1994. pp. 70–72.
  5. ^ Ponce, Tony (July 24, 2010). "Off-Brand Games: High Seas Havoc". Destructoid. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
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