| By February 1990 the ZX Spectrum game was in a US Gold compilation with Blasteroids, Thunderblade, LED Storm and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which Sinclair User gave 80% overall, calling Impossible Mission II an "interesting and addictive spy-style arcade adventure". | pp. 74-75 (images 74-75), Attack of the Compilations!pp. 74-75 (images 74-75), Attack of the Compilations!pp. 74-75 (images 74-75), Attack of the Compilations!pp. 74-75 (images 74-75), Attack of the Compilations!pp. 74-75 (images 74-75), Attack of the Compilations!pp. 74-75 (images 74-75), Attack of the Compilations! | Magazine |
| Ocean put the Spectrum version on its compilation Mega Mix, with Barbarian II, Dragon Ninja, and The Real Ghostbusters. Sinclair User's compilations roundup in February 1990 gave Mega Mix 79% and called Operation Wolf "a brilliant shoot em up that was last year s Christmas number one". | p. 75, Attack of the Compilations!, Mega Mixp. 75, Mega Mixp. 75, Mega Mixp. 75, Mega Mixp. 75, Mega Mixp. 75, Mega Mix, rating | Magazine |
| By February 1990 the ZX Spectrum version was in Coin-Op Hits, a compilation from U.S. Gold and Computer & Video Games with Out Run, Thunder Blade, Spy Hunter and Bionic Commando. Sinclair User's round-up of compilations that month called it a "fairly tedious race 'n' blast game". | p. 21 (image 21), U.S. Gold compilations advertisementp. 21 (image 21), U.S. Gold compilations advertisementp. 74 (image 74), Attack of the Compilations! | Magazine |
| By 1990 Elite had put the Spectrum version on its compilations The Story So Far II (£12.99) and Thrilltime Platinum I. Sinclair User's review of both, in February 1990, summed it up as "Good in its heyday, but now looking a bit ropey." | p. 75 (image 75), Attack of the Compilationsp. 75 (image 75)p. 75 (image 75) | Magazine |
| Ocean's advertisement of February 1990 billed the game "Live an American legend", named the border raid and the rooftop duel among its scenes, and quoted Sinclair User and Your Sinclair. | p. 11, Ocean advertisementp. 11, Ocean advertisementp. 11, Ocean advertisementp. 11, Ocean advertisementp. 11, Ocean advertisement | Magazine |
| Sinclair User, a Spectrum magazine, printed a tip in February 1990 that skips levels: type "Humphrey Bogart" on the high-score table, then press all the keys on the left-hand side during play. | p. 17, Dirty Tricks Dept | Magazine |