| Crash reviewed Elite's ZX Spectrum version, at £8.95, in its July 1986 issue, credited to the author Keith Burkhill. The review takes the knight through a graveyard and its overweight demon, an ogre called Fatty Stomper, the Ice Palace, a ghost town, the Monsters' Den, and the Cavern System; one reviewer wrote that the conversion "only contains three levels". | p. 28 (image 28), Ghosts and Goblins, headerp. 28 (image 28), headerp. 28 (image 28), headerp. 29 (image 29), commentp. 29 (image 29), review textp. 29 (image 29), review textp. 29 (image 29), review textp. 29 (image 29), review textp. 29 (image 29), review textp. 29 (image 29), review text | Magazine |
| Crash made the Spectrum version a Crash Smash at 95% overall, with 89% for use of computer, 92% for graphics, 95% for playability, 91% for getting started, 96% for addictive qualities, and 93% for value for money. | p. 29 (image 29), ratingsp. 29 (image 29), ratingsp. 29 (image 29), ratingsp. 29 (image 29), ratingsp. 29 (image 29), ratingsp. 29 (image 29), ratingsp. 29 (image 29), ratings | Magazine |
| Crash's ratings box called it "yet another very competent Capcom conversion from Elite" and "very playable and addictive". One reviewer called it "a genuine first rate copy of the arcade game"; another, who had doubted Elite could convert it, found an excellent interpretation of the arcade original with perfectly smooth scrolling. | p. 29 (image 29), general ratingp. 28 (image 28), first commentp. 29 (image 29), second comment | Magazine |
| Crash's Hotline chart of Spectrum games for July 1986 had Winter Games, credited to Epyx and US Gold, at number 29. | p. 50, Crash Hotline chart | Magazine |