Red arrows point the direction going in and the word "OUT" appears on the arrows during escape to point the direction out. The object is to get to the core of the space station, sabotage the reactor, and escape to a minimum safe distance before the space station explodes. The roller-knob controlled left and right character movement and a "jump" button permits the player's character to leap over obstacles. In the next phase, the player lands on the robot space station by centering the Catastrofighter in between the moving white line and Major Havoc would exit his ship and enter the space-station. The ships are encased in a sort of "buckyball" force-field shield which must be shot first before the ship can be killed. The player controls the titular character, Major Rex Havoc, first in the "shoot-'em-up" style game, in which the player operated Major Havoc's spaceship, the Catastrofighter, against the numerous robot ships who defend the enemy reactors. Some games identified the Vaxxian homeworld as Maynard, referring to the town of Maynard, Massachusetts, home of Digital Equipment Corporation, manufacturer of the VAX minicomputer. The player controls Major Havoc, the leader of this very band of clones. The small band of scientists who initially escaped managed to clone the great human hero Major Havoc, in order to fly his Catastrofighter through a wormhole in space, so that he may lead a clone army against the dreaded Vaxxian robots, and to liberate the remnants of humanity by destroying the enemy reactors.
However, numerous Vaxxian space stations, all blindly controlled and defended by robots, still remain in the galaxy, mindlessly pursuing their original orders. A few humans, who were scientists, managed to escape.Īt the current moment (according to the timeline of the game), the Empire has since collapsed. Most of humanity was enslaved and abducted to the Vaxxian homeworld. Plot Īccording to the story provided by the game's original cabinet, long ago the evil Vaxxian Empire overran the galaxy. Dedicated versions of the game used a roller control for left-right movement, while conversion kits used their native controller hardware, such as the Tempest rotary spinner knob.
The game was released as a dedicated cabinet in 1983 and then one year later as a conversion kit for older vector arcade games like Tempest. It was developed by Owen Rubin with some levels designed and tuned by Mark Cerny, who joined the development team approximately a year into the game's development. A vector-based upright arcade cabinet, Major Havoc consists of several smaller game experiences played in succession, including a fixed shooter, platform game, and a lunar lander sequence.
Major Havoc (or The Adventures of Major Havoc) is an arcade action game released by Atari, Inc.
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