| Elite put the Spectrum 1942 on Frank Bruno's Big Box, a compilation of ten of its earlier games, at £12.99 on cassette; Your Sinclair, reviewing it in February 1989, called 1942 a vertically scrolling coin-op and found the tape slightly overpriced as most of its games were out on budget labels. | p. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Boxp. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Boxp. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Boxp. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Box, 1942p. 38, YS Clapometer | Magazine |
| By early 1989 U.S. Gold had put the Spectrum game on its compilation Giants (World Beaters Giants) with Gauntlet II, Rolling Thunder, 720° and Out Run, at £12.99 on cassette and £19.99 on disk. Your Sinclair's review of the compilation found California Games "totally failed to set me alight", with chunky, colorful graphics and no sound to speak of, fun only with friends. | p. 4, mail-order advertisementpp. 40-41pp. 40-41pp. 40-41pp. 40-41 | Magazine |
| Commando was one of the ten games on Elite's Frank Bruno's Big Box, at £12.99 on cassette. Your Sinclair, a Spectrum magazine, reviewing it in February 1989, called Commando "quite an old coin-op conversion" in which the player, as Super Joe, dashes up the vertically scrolling screen, "a bit dated, but jolly good fun". | p. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Boxp. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Boxp. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Box, Commandop. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Box, Commandop. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Box, Commandop. 38, Frank Bruno's Big Box, Commando | Magazine |
| By February 1989 Commando was out on the budget label Encore at £2.99. Your Sinclair, a Spectrum magazine, called it a "totally awesome and absorbing vertical shoot 'em up" and gave its first release as January 1986. | p. 55, Bubbling Underp. 55, Bubbling Under | Magazine |
| By early 1989 Cybernoid was on two Gremlin compilations, Space Ace and Ten Mega Games. Your Sinclair's review of Space Ace called it "The biggie in most people's minds", "a megagame and a half". | p. 37, Space Ace (Gremlin) | Magazine |
| By February 1989 the Spectrum game was one of five on US Gold's compilation World Beaters Giants (720°, Out Run, California Games, Gauntlet II and Rolling Thunder), £12.99 on cassette and £19.99 on disk. Your Sinclair's review of the compilation called Gauntlet 2 "the joker in the pack", worth at least nine, "not the eight meanie Phil originally gave it". | p. 40, World Beaters Giantsp. 40, World Beaters Giantsp. 40, World Beaters Giantsp. 19, mail-order advertisement | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's Jonathan Davies gave the ZX Spectrum version 8 in May 1988: "Pure, unadulterated destruction, all wrapped up in one hell of a good game." He wrote that it had appeared after months of waiting for the other versions to be finished. | p. 68 (image 68), Ikari Warriors | Magazine |
| Elite later put the ZX Spectrum game on its compilation Fists 'n' Throttles. Reviewing the compilation in February 1989, Your Sinclair's Marcus wasn't sure Ikari Warriors was as good as Jonathan Davies's raves had it, but found that it works well as part of a compilation, and wrote "Oi'll give it seven." | p. 68 (image 68)p. 68 (image 68)p. 68 (image 68), Ikari Warriorsp. 68 (image 68), Ikari Warriorsp. 68 (image 68), Ikari Warriors | Magazine |
| U.S. Gold also put the Spectrum version on History in the Making, a boxed set of 15 of its games from July 1984 to July 1987 on four tapes at £24.99. Your Sinclair's February 1989 review, which dated Infiltrator 1987, found it complicated and its first part far too difficult. | p. 72, History in the Makingp. 72, History in the Makingp. 72, History in the Makingp. 72, History in the Makingp. 73, History in the Making, Infiltratorp. 73, History in the Making, Infiltrator | Magazine |
| In February 1989 Your Sinclair carried Ocean's advertisement for The In Crowd, a compilation of eight games including Platoon, on cassette at £14.95 for the Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore, with The Last Ninja replacing Crazy Cars on the Commodore; a mail-order advertisement in the same issue offered it at £9.99 with Karnov, Gryzor, Barbarian, Crazy Cars, Predator, Combat School and Target Renegade. | image 4, Bargain Software advertisementimage 108, Ocean advertisementimage 108, Ocean advertisementimage 108, Ocean advertisement | Magazine |
| By February 1989 Predator was one of the eight games of Ocean's compilation The In Crowd, with Karnov, Gryzor, Barbarian, Crazy Cars, Combat School, Platoon and Target Renegade, on cassette for the Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore at £14.95; on the Commodore, The Last Ninja replaced Crazy Cars. | image 4, Bargain Software advertisementimage 108, Ocean advertisementimage 108, Ocean advertisement | Magazine |
| By February 1989 Target Renegade was one of the eight games of Ocean's compilation The In Crowd, with Karnov, Gryzor, Barbarian, Crazy Cars, Predator, Combat School and Platoon, on cassette for the Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore at £14.95; on the Commodore, The Last Ninja replaced Crazy Cars. | image 4, Bargain Software advertisementimage 108, Ocean advertisement | Magazine |