| Your Sinclair reported in October 1988 that Mediagenic (formerly Activision) had signed the rights to a number of Sega's new arcade releases, Altered Beast among them, and in January 1989 The One named Activision's conversions of Sega's Galaxy Force and Altered Beast among the releases to come. | p. 6 (image 6), the year's review of publishers | Magazine |
| The One's update for the Amiga version, in January 1989, found it hard to tell from the ST version but with better sound, including the Blue Danube playable during the game, and slightly faster. At £24.95 and out then, it scored 85%. | p. 22 (image 22), Updatep. 22 (image 22), Updatep. 22 (image 22), Updatep. 22 (image 22), Updatep. 22 (image 22), Update, score box | Magazine |
| In Britain Imagine advertised the home-computer versions in January 1989, calling the game "the coin-op smash hit" from the SNK stable. The advertisement in Crash gives £8.95 for the Spectrum and £9.95 for the Amstrad and Commodore versions. The same advertisement in The One adds the Atari ST at 19.95 and the Amiga at 24.95. Both carry Imagine's logo and its Manchester address, with a telex line reading OCEANS G. | p. 17 (image 17), advertisementp. 17 (image 17), advertisement, read on the page imagep. 17 (image 17), advertisement, read on the page image | Magazine |
| The One's review of 1988, in January 1989, credited John Phillips for Hewson's year with Eliminator and Nebulus, called Nebulus his "tower-toppling classic", and said his next project was provisionally titled JMP4. | p. 6 (image 6), review of the yearp. 6 (image 6), review of the year | Magazine |
| By May 1988 the advertisement sent orders to Grand Slam Entertainments instead of Argus Press Software, and the cassette instructions for the Commodore 64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX say the game was licensed to Grandslam Entertainments. Grandslam's January 1989 advertisement still marks Pacland "coming soon" and prices the Amiga and Atari ST versions at £19.95. | p. 84 (image n84), Grandslam advertisementp. 85 (image n85), Grandslam advertisement, prices | Magazine |
| The One, a magazine for 16-bit computers, reported in January 1989 that Probe's conversion of Atari's Roadblasters for U.S. Gold was "now almost fully complete". | p. 15 (image 15), newsp. 15 (image 15), news, picture caption | Magazine |
| The One reviewed Imagine's Atari ST version (£19.95) and Amiga version (£24.95) in January 1989, both "Out Now". Brian Nesbitt called it "a pretty lame conversion of what is, to be fair, a pretty lame coin-op", with abysmal graphics, poor sprites, jerky scrolling, and no music during play, and named the programmer as Microwish, maker of Hewson's Zynaps. The Amiga version, he found, plays slightly faster and is more colorful, but fails the same way. | p. 73 (image 73), Victory Road review, standfirstp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road reviewp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road reviewp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road reviewp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road review, ST boxp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road review, Amiga boxp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road review, Amiga boxp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road reviewp. 74 (image 74), Victory Road review, ST and Amiga boxes | Magazine |
| The One gave the Atari ST version 40% overall (graphics 36%, sound 45%, playability 41%, value 33%). | p. 74 (image 74), Victory Road review, ST box | Magazine |
| The One gave the Amiga version 40% overall (graphics 36%, sound 45%, playability 41%, value 33%), the same marks as the Atari ST version. | p. 74 (image 74), Victory Road review, Amiga box | Magazine |