The player controlled the titular character, Major 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. 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. When the player finally entered the warp code, the player would be transported to a higher level.Įxtra lives were earned not only by achieving a certain number of points, but also by completing the Breakout mini game.Īccording to the story provided by the game's original cabinet, long ago the evil Vaxxian Empire overran the galaxy. For example, the red warp required the number 23, so the player would move the joystick to the right or left until the first digit matched 2, then the player would click the fire button, the Breakout ball would start moving, so the player would have to play the breakout while moving the joystick to the 3 at the same time. The player would have to move the joystick until the number matched the number required to warp. The warps were activated by a Breakout clone at the bottom-right of the screen, where there would be two- or three-digit numbers. The game also featured a "warp system" that allowed the player to skip levels and gain bonus points. ĭedicated 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 initially released as a dedicated cabinet in 1983 and then one year later as a conversion kit for older vector arcade games like Tempest. Major Havoc (or The Adventures of Major Havoc) is an upright cabinet vector-based arcade game made by Atari in 1983.
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