| Looking back for its 50th issue in February 1990, Your Sinclair wrote that no coin-op conversion of 1987 was "as faithful or as straightforwardly addictive" as Ocean's Spectrum Arkanoid. The writer remembered the capsule that skipped to the next level, called level 23 the hardest, and judged Arkanoid II, a year later, "just as good", with better puzzles and a choice of screens, though nothing could beat the first for sheer impact. | p. 72, 50th birthday, Arkanoidp. 72, 50th birthday, Arkanoidp. 72, 50th birthday, Arkanoidp. 72, 50th birthday, Arkanoidp. 72, 50th birthday, Arkanoid | Magazine |
| By February 1990 Arkanoid and Arkanoid 2 were sold together on the Spectrum in a Taito Coin Ops compilation with Bubble Bobble, Flying Shark, The Legend of Kage, Rastan, Slap Fight, and Renegade, by a mail-order advertisement in Your Sinclair. | PDF p. 19, Key Software advertisement | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair reviewed the ZX Spectrum version in February 1990, at £9.99 on cassette and £14.99 on disk, and gave it 94° (instant appeal 94, addictiveness 91, graphics 88, life expectancy 86). The reviewer, Matt Bielby, called it "an absolute corker of a game" and, in presentation, "one of the best coin-op conversions" he had seen, praised the speed of the road, the split roads and tunnels, and the digitised speech, and ranked it "Number One" ahead of Operation Thunderbolt, Power Drift and Hard Drivin'. The magazine made it a Megagame. | p. 14 (image 14), Chase HQ review, headerp. 14 (image 14), Chase HQ reviewp. 14 (image 14), Chase HQ reviewp. 14 (image 14), Chase HQ reviewp. 14 (image 14), Chase HQ reviewp. 15 (image 15), Chase HQ reviewp. 15 (image 15), Chase HQ reviewp. 15 (image 15), reviewer boxp. 14 (image 14), Chase HQ review, opening | Magazine |
| Domark's advertisement in Your Sinclair's February 1990 issue lists Cyberball for the IBM PC, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64 (cassette and disk), Amstrad (cassette and disk), Spectrum +3, and Spectrum 48/128, published by Domark under license from Tengen, with a 1989 copyright line for Tengen. | p. 17 (image 17), Cyberball advertisementp. 17 (image 17), Cyberball advertisementp. 17 (image 17), Cyberball advertisement | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's February 1990 Megapreview of the Spectrum version (Tengen/Domark, £9.99 on cassette and £14.99 on disk) said Domark planned it for the end of January. Its programmer, Stephen Wood, said Tengen had given Domark the coin-op's C source code, the only way to make every version play like the original, and that about 100 plays fitted in 128K, while the 48K version would keep about 20 or 30 of the best. The graphics put one team in black and the other in gray. | p. 12 (image 12), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreviewp. 13 (image 13), Megapreview, details box | Magazine |
| Your Sinclair's February 1990 Megapreview credits the Spectrum version's code to Stephen Wood, formerly of Probe, who planned one more game, another Bond license for Domark, before more or less giving up Spectrum programming, and its graphics to Tony West, known for Licence to Kill and the 16-bit F16 Combat Pilot. | p. 13 (image 13), Megapreview, "Cybermen" boxp. 13 (image 13), Megapreview, "Cybermen" boxp. 13 (image 13), Megapreview, "Cybermen" boxp. 13 (image 13), Megapreview, "Cybermen" boxp. 13 (image 13), Megapreview, "Cybermen" box | Magazine |
| In February 1990 Your Sinclair's 50th-issue look back named the Cybernoid pair among its best games, "An amazing shoot-'em-up that redefined what could and could not be done with the Spectrum", in which Cecco dropped scrolling for screens the player is frantic to get past. | p. 76, 50th birthday featurep. 76, 50th birthday feature | Magazine |
| Looking back in February 1990, Your Sinclair called Operation Wolf the game that most typified Ocean's house style of coin-op conversion, "possibly the in-house programmers' finest hour", and recalled the original coin-op drawing crowds to Ocean's PC Show stand. | p. 75, Marcus' 1988 (50th birthday)p. 75p. 75p. 75 | 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. 27, mail-order compilations list | Magazine |
| Looking back in February 1990, Your Sinclair called Elite's Spectrum Paperboy frenetic and fun, with graphics "massive and very detailed", and said it had been a YS Megagame in November 1986. | p. 70, Paperboyp. 70, Paperboyp. 70, Paperboyp. 70, Paperboy | Magazine |
| In February 1990 Your Sinclair's "Matt's 1989", one of its looks back at the year's games, listed The Untouchables first among the year's conversions, a "compilation of six different sorts of shoot-'em-up", each based on a scene from the film, all in monochrome but detailed and smoothly moving. | p. 78, Matt's 1989p. 78, Matt's 1989p. 78, Matt's 1989p. 78, Matt's 1989p. 78, Matt's 1989 | Magazine |