High Seas Havoc

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 (大谷明 Ōtani Akira)
Composer(s)	Emi Shimizu (清水絵美 Shimizu Emi); 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.^[4]

References[]

^ Designer information (in Japanese) at Ambelo
^ Manny LaManche (February 1994). "ProReview". GamePro. No. 55. p. 58.
^ "MegaDrive Review". Mean Machines. No. 19. May 1994. pp. 70–72.
^ Ponce, Tony (July 24, 2010). "Off-Brand Games: High Seas Havoc". Destructoid. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

External links[]

Mainichi Interactive page on Captain Lang

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[1] Designer information (in Japanese) at Ambelo

[2] Manny LaManche (February 1994). "ProReview". GamePro. No. 55. p. 58.

[3] "MegaDrive Review". Mean Machines. No. 19. May 1994. pp. 70–72.

[4] Ponce, Tony (July 24, 2010). "Off-Brand Games: High Seas Havoc". Destructoid. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

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Publication	Score
GamePro	4/5^[2]
Mean Machines	64/100^[3]