The dedicated control panel uses a left/right roller basically an X-axis-only trackball for player movement. Later Atari games like I, Robot, Return Of The Jedi and Firefox all borrowed from this unique design. A photo of the dedicated machine appears at the top of the page. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThis game was released as a dedicated machine and also as a conversion kit. Within the Personal Impressions category, 'Like' carries a little more weight than the other factors. Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Major Havoc - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.44 (11 votes) Personal Impressions Score: 3.37 You Major Havoc must search out enemy space stations: defeat their space defenses, dock with the mothership and then destroy each robot infested mothership by setting off the reactor. Other machines made by Atari during the time period Major Havoc was produced include Star Wars, 4X4, Food Fight, Cloak & Dagger, I, Robot, Kangaroo, Xevious, Millipede, Gravitar, and Dig Dug. Warps are activated by a Breakout game at the bottom-right of the screen, where there are two- or three-digit numbers. Upon a successful mission, the next space station becomes more difficult and the time allotted (both in and out) is decreased.The game also features a 'warp system' that lets the player to skip levels and gain bonus points. The levels get gradually more complicated to navigate in difficulty as the player progresses. Red arrows lead the players direction in and the word out, also in red, points 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. The ships are encased in a sort of 'buckyball' force-field shield which must be shot first before the ship can be killed.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. Platform-segment screenshot.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. The player controls Major Havoc, the leader of this very band of clones.Some games identified the Vaxxian homeworld as Maynard, referring to the town of Maynard, Massachusetts, home of, manufacturer of the minicomputer.Gameplay. However, numerous Vaxxian space stations, all blindly controlled and defended by robots, still remain in the galaxy, mindlessly pursuing their original orders.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. A few humans, who were scientists, managed to escape.At 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. Contents.Story According 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.
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