| Sinclair User printed its Athena review by Graham Taylor without its star rating. Answering a reader in December 1987, it said Athena should have had eight stars. | image 22, lettersimage 22, letters | Magazine |
| Imagine's December 1987 advertisement sold Athena and its sequel Psycho Soldier for the Spectrum at £7.95 and the Commodore and Amstrad at £8.95 each. Its copy sends Athena through the worlds of forest, cavern, sky, sea, labyrinth and hell, each with its own guardian, to the last world and its evil guardian. | p. 26 (image 26), advertisementp. 26 (image 26), advertisementp. 26 (image 26), advertisement | Magazine |
| US Gold advertised Gauntlet II in Sinclair User's December 1987 issue as "The mind blowing sequel to the No.1 smash hit!", with screenshots from the Atari ST version. | p. 78, US Gold advertisementp. 78, US Gold advertisement | Magazine |
| Sinclair User's December 1987 tips pages (Zapchat, pp. 28-29) gave a written walkthrough of Nebulus's first tower, which they named the Tower of Eyes. | p. 28 (image 28), Zapchatp. 28 (image 28), Zapchat | Magazine |
| Activision's British advertisements of late 1987 announced Rampage for home computers in December, under license from Bally Midway. | p. 105, Activision advertisementp. 105, Activision advertisement | Magazine |
| U.S. Gold published the Commodore 64 version under license from Tecmo, converted by Probe Software. Crash credits Probe Software as the Spectrum version's authors and US Gold as its producer, at £8.99. Sinclair User reviewed the Spectrum version in December 1987, and Crash in its January 1988 issue. | p. 87, Rygar | Manual |
| Sinclair User's December 1987 review of the Spectrum version gave it 5. It found the hero a flickery little sprite with no facial detail and the game stunningly unoriginal, and summed it up as moderately entertaining but run-of-the-mill, a waste of what could have been a good game. | p. 87, Rygarp. 87, Rygarp. 87, Rygar | Magazine |