| Firebird's British advertisement of November 1987 called Flying Shark "the ultimate shoot-em-up from Taito" and priced it at £7.95 for the ZX Spectrum, £8.95 on cassette for the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC (£12.95 and £14.95 on disk), and £19.95 for the Atari ST. | p. 23, Firebird advertisementp. 23, Firebird advertisement | Magazine |
| Catalyst Coders converted Super Sprint from the coin-op for Electric Dreams, and Tony Mack wrote the Spectrum version; he had earlier worked on Paperboy for Elite. Crash credited the Spectrum game to Software Studios. | scan image 20 (no folio visible) | Magazine |
| In November 1987 ACE reviewed the Spectrum version at £9.99 on cassette and listed the Commodore 64 version (£9.99 cassette, £14.99 disk) and the Atari ST version as imminent. Computer and Video Games reviewed the Spectrum and Commodore 64 versions that month, priced the Spectrum cassette at £7.99, the Amstrad CPC one at £8.99 and the Commodore 64 one at £9.99, and had not yet seen the Amstrad game. | scan image 20 (no folio visible)scan image 20 (no folio visible)scan image 20 (no folio visible) | Magazine |
| Computer and Video Games's November 1987 review, by Tim, found the Spectrum version "pretty basic" and the Commodore 64 version excellent, "the ultimate conversion" so far. It rated the Spectrum and Commodore 64 versions 6 and 9 for graphics, 6 and 8 for sound, 7 and 9 for value, and 7 and 9 for playability. The Commodore 64 game loads its eight tracks in two sets of four; the Spectrum game loads all eight at once. | scan image 20 (no folio visible)scan image 20 (no folio visible), ratings boxscan image 20 (no folio visible)scan image 20 (no folio visible)scan image 20 (no folio visible)scan image 20 (no folio visible)scan image 20 (no folio visible) | Magazine |