| Athena came out for the 48K and 128K Spectrum at £7.95 on the Imagine label, with Ocean as producer. Crash's October 1987 issue expected it at the end of September. | image 46, Athena review, facts boximage 46, Athena review, facts box | Magazine |
| Andrew Deakin and Iran Horne wrote the Spectrum version: Sinclair User credits Horne with the graphics and Deakin with the gameplay. | image 46, Athena review, facts boximage 47, Athena review, Programmers box | Magazine |
| Sinclair User's October 1987 review found Athena "an all-round good game", played over six worlds. Athena begins with only her uppercut and builds up her weapons, and clears blocking rock "in a sort of bizarre varient on Boulderdash". The reviewer liked the two-color graphics' detail and found that "It won't win any awards for great innovations". | image 46, Athena reviewimage 47, Athena reviewimage 47, Athena reviewimage 47, Athena reviewimage 47, Athena reviewimage 46, Athena review | Magazine |
| Sinclair User described five lives and a time limit on each level, and a continue: with time left after the fifth life is lost, pressing Y within 10 seconds restores five lives. On the 48K Spectrum each world loads from tape. | image 47, Athena reviewimage 47, Athena reviewimage 47, Athena review | Magazine |
| Sinclair User's guide to the Personal Computer World Show of September 1987 said Firebird's stand would give a "sneaky peek" at Flying Shark, Firebird's new coin-op tie-in. | p. 88, show guide, Firebird Stand 1011p. 88, show guidep. 5, contents | Magazine |
| Quicksilva planned to preview Pacland, "its new licence", at its stand at the PCW show in autumn 1987, beside the original arcade game for visitors to play. | image n89 (about printed p. 90), show guide, QUICKSILVA | Magazine |
| US Gold published the ZX Spectrum version in Britain in 1987, and Crash, Your Sinclair and Sinclair User each name Probe Software as its authors; Crash gives £7.95 and the other two £8.99. | p. 23, Solomon's Key, Facts Box | Magazine |
| Sinclair User gave the ZX Spectrum version 8 stars out of 10 in October 1987, the mark its key glosses "Good stuff. Well worth the money". Graham Taylor's Facts Box called it a simple idea but a superb game in Boulderdash style and a good conversion from Probe, and his review said it could well be a seriously big hit. | p. 23, star keyp. 23, star keyp. 23, Solomon's Key, ratingp. 23, Solomon's Key, Facts Boxp. 23, Solomon's Keyp. 23, Solomon's Key, reviewer | Magazine |
| Activision held the home-computer license for Super Sprint; Sinclair User said Electric Dreams, a label of the Activision group, had paid "lots of cash" for it, and Catalyst converted the game for Electric Dreams. | printed p. 86, Grand Prix Simulator review | Magazine |