| The three Spectrum reviews all mention that the events load one at a time from tape: Sinclair User called the multi-load "a definite pain", and a Crash reviewer found each event not worth the wait to load it. | p. 65 | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's Duncan gave the Spectrum version a total of 7 on its Clapometer. He found no joystick option on the menu, judged the conversion "a little bit of a 'rush job'" with big, chunky graphics and almost no sound, and summed it up as a not too frenetic keyboard waggler with six playable events for up to four players. | p. 65p. 65p. 65p. 65, YS Clapometerp. 65, YS Clapometerp. 65 | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's Mike Gerrard reviewed the ZX Spectrum version (Firebird, £7.95) in March 1988, a YS Megagame with a total of 9, as Firebird's conversion of Taito's arcade game: five levels of enemy forces, with a touchdown on a runway between them, three lives with three smart bombs each, programming by Dominic Robinson and music by Steve Turner. The verdict: "one of the most addictive shoot 'em ups ever". | p. 67, review headingp. 67, review textp. 67, review textp. 67, review textp. 67, review textp. 67, review textp. 67, YS Clapometer | Magazine |
| Elite's conversion was late. Crash's October 1987 cover-tape demo announced the ZX Spectrum game for Christmas at £7.95. In March 1988 Your Sinclair still had no release date and reported that the Spectrum version had been ready for months while Elite waited to release it with the Commodore 64 version; Crash that month expected it within weeks. | p. 7, T'zers | Magazine |
| In March 1988 Your Sinclair's tips column printed a reader's list of enemy and friendly code names for the Spectrum version, with the advice to avoid air combat, since fuel is tight, and to keep airspeed between 250 and 300 so that the battery doesn't overheat. | p. 45, Dr Berkmann's Clinic, Avenger & Infiltratorp. 45, Dr Berkmann's Clinic, Avenger & Infiltratorp. 45, Dr Berkmann's Clinic, Avenger & Infiltrator | Magazine |
| U.S. Gold put the Spectrum version on its Solid Gold compilation, at £9.99, with Gauntlet, Ace of Aces, Leader Board, and Winter Games; Sinclair User's review of January 1988 said Infiltrator "gives you the chance to fly a helicopter in great style". | p. 93, classified advertisement | Magazine |
| Previewing the Spectrum version in March 1988, Your Sinclair called it the most accurate conversion of an arcade hit in years, with all the original's colour squeezed into the Spectrum, for £9.99. | p. 9, Future Shocks | Magazine |
| On the ZX Spectrum, Kung-Fu Master was sold in compilations: US Gold's Data East's Arcade Alley, which Crash listed in May 1988, and Gremlin's Karate Ace, reviewed in October 1988. Your Sinclair carried an advertisement for a six-game compilation featuring it in March 1988. | p. 100, advertisement | Magazine |
| In March 1988 Your Sinclair reported that Activision was about to release Predator at £9.99, following the film: the player, as Schwarzenegger, sets out to rescue allies caught by guerrillas, finds at the base camp that they have "already been given a wooden box each", and has to get home, eventually meeting the alien in a head-to-head confrontation with no weapons but his own strength. | p. 10, news item on Predatorp. 10, news item on Predatorp. 10, news item on Predatorp. 10, news item on Predatorp. 10, news item on Predatorp. 10, news item on Predatorp. 10, news item on Predatorp. 10, news item on Predator | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's March 1988 review of the Spectrum version, by Rachael, scored it 6 out of 10: "Smash everything in sight but don't expect too much of a smash from the thankless task of clearing the inner cities!" | p. 70, Rampagep. 70, Rampagep. 70, YS Clapometerp. 70, Rampage | Magazine |
| In Britain US Gold published the ZX Spectrum version, reviewed in February and March 1988 at £7.99 by Sinclair User's and Crash's listings and £8.99 by Your Sinclair's. Tiertex made the conversion: Sinclair User's facts box credits it as author, and ST Action's 1989 profile of the firm, formed by John Prince and Campbell, names Rolling Thunder among the coin-op conversions it was commissioned for in its first year. | p. 18, Rolling Thunder, Fax Boxp. 18, Rolling Thunder, Fax Box | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair made the Spectrum version its cover game in March 1988. Its review calls the game "a sort of deluxe platform game", mostly played on two levels, in which the player, an undercover cop code-named Albatross, goes through five levels twice to reach the final objective; it found it "piggin' hard", one of the fastest shoot 'em ups of the month, and told readers to buy it. | p. 4, contentsp. 18, Rolling Thunderp. 18, Rolling Thunderp. 18, Rolling Thunderp. 18, Rolling Thunderp. 18, Rolling Thunderp. 18, Rolling Thunderp. 18, Rolling Thunder | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair made the Spectrum version a YS Megagame in March 1988. Its clapometer gave 9 of 10 each for graphics, playability, value for money and addictiveness, a total of 9. | p. 18, Rolling Thunder, badgesp. 18, Rolling Thunder | Magazine |