| Zzap!64 reviewed Firebird's Amiga version (£19.99) in April 1989 and gave it 68% overall (Presentation 50%, Graphics 71%, Sound 24%, Hookability 70%, Lastability 67%): "An average blast with no real distinguishing marks". One reviewer found nothing remarkable in it and noted that the Amiga version had lost the arcade game's sideways scrolling; the other, while finding it a weak conversion, found it enjoyable to play. | p. 26, review headingp. 26, review textp. 26, review textp. 26, ratings boxp. 26, ratings box | Magazine |
| Zzap!64's April 1989 issue reviewed Elite's Amiga version, at £19.99 on disk, and rated it 85% overall, "A pretty hot conversion of an even hotter arcade machine", with 52% for presentation, 84% for graphics, 54% for sound, 90% for hookability and 81% for lastability, and a separate "conversion factor" of 89. Of its two comments, under caricatures labelled KATI and CORDO, the second said he would keep playing the Amiga version rather than squeeze into one of the arcade's hydraulic chairs, "because it's just as good", and praised it for keeping the full-screen scrolling and breakneck speed of the 3D action. | p. 22 (image 22), headerp. 23 (image 23), score box under "conversion factor"p. 23 (image 23), score boxp. 23 (image 23), score box headingp. 22 (image 22), comment under the caricature labelled "CORDO"p. 22 (image 22), comment labelled "CORDO" | Magazine |
| Tengen's advertisement in Zzap!64's April 1989 issue announced that Atari Games, the maker of the coin-ops, had asked Domark to convert its current range to home computers under a new label, Tengen, and called Vindicators a faithful conversion of the arcade game, with a demo of the first Tengen title in shops. | pp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisement | Magazine |
| The advertisement describes the game as set in 2525, when an armada of fourteen alien space stations approaches Earth; the player infiltrates them in SR-88 Strategic Battle Tanks, "better known as Vindicators", and after the stations faces the Emperor of the alien empire. It is for one or two players. | pp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisementpp. 11-13 (images 11-13), Tengen advertisement | Magazine |