| 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. 7 (image 7), newsp. 7 (image 7), news | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair called Cybernoid "chart-topping" in October 1988, when its cover tape carried a playable demo of Cybernoid II. | p. 20, cover tapep. 20, cover tape | Magazine |
| Beau Jolly's compilation Supreme Challenge, advertised in October 1988 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 at £12.95 on cassette and £16.95 on disc, put Elite with The Sentinel, Tetris, Ace 2 and Starglider. Crash's review of compilations in January 1989 called Elite, Starglider and The Sentinel its "three true mega games", and its table recalled Crash's 92% for Elite from issue 22. | p. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisementp. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisementp. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisementp. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisementp. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisementp. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisementp. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisementp. 24 (image 24), Beau Jolly advertisement | 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. 4, reviews indexp. 46, Karate Ace | Magazine |
| Reviewing Karate Ace in October 1988, Your Sinclair's reviewer called Kung Fu Master the worst game in the collection: slow and stodgy, with "tons of colour-clash", playable enough but too vague to hold interest for long. It scored 4 there; the review noted that Kung Fu Master had "managed an eight first time round". | p. 46, Karate Acep. 46, Karate Acep. 46, Karate Acep. 47, Karate Ace, ratings | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's reviewer, Macca, reviewed the ZX Spectrum version (U.S. Gold, £8.99) in October 1988 and gave it 8 out of 10. He found the road green and bland but smooth, the control over-sensitive and the collision detection "very iffy", and wrote that although it "doesn't compare very well with the original arcade" it grows on you "like an addictive leech". | p. 42 (image 42), review headingp. 43 (image 43), review textp. 43 (image 43), review textp. 43 (image 43), review textp. 43 (image 43), review textp. 43 (image 43), YS Clapometer | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's October 1988 review of U.S. Gold's Summertime Specials compilation (six games, £12.99) called the Spectrum Rygar "one addictive decimation game". Its diminutive hero was "totally unlike the buzz-saw blade skimming hunk of the advertisement", which had drawn complaints from "concerned parents". The review recalled that David Powell's debut review, in the January 1988 Screen Shots, had given the game 8. | p. 88, Summertime Specials, Rygarp. 88, Summertime Specials, Rygarp. 88, Summertime Specials, Rygarp. 88, Summertime Specials, Rygarp. 88, Summertime Specialsp. 88, Summertime Specials | Magazine |
| In October 1988 Your Sinclair reviewed US Gold's six-game Spectrum compilation Summertime Specials, which includes Solomon's Key; its blurb called the game "the surprise find", "rather like Boulderdash", recalled that it had been the magazine's Megagame the November before, and summed it up as "brilliantly ingenious". | p. 89, Summertime Specials, Solomon's Keyp. 89, Summertime Specials, summaryp. 88, Summertime Specialsp. 4, contentsp. 88, Summertime Specials | Magazine |
| Super Sprint was one of the five games on the Spectrum compilation We Are the Champions, with IK+, Renegade, Rampage and Barbarian, in a mail-order advertisement in Your Sinclair's October 1988 issue. Crash's May 1988 compilations roundup had already listed it with its 58% from issue 46. | printed p. 5, mail-order advertisement | Magazine |