| Two Newsfield magazines name Special FX as a maker of the game. Crash's review header of November 1989 credits the Spectrum version to "Ocean/Special FX". Zzap!64's Commodore 64 review of the same month says Special FX should be finishing the Amiga game soon, and a Zzap!64 news item of March 1990, on Ocean's licence of Data East's coin-op Midnight Resistance, says Special FX had started on the Commodore 64 and Amiga conversions and calls The Untouchables and Red Heat previous Special FX titles, without naming a version. Sinclair User's Fax Box of November 1989 gives the Spectrum version's author as "In House". | p. 78 (image 78), Amiga update | Magazine |
| Zzap!64's Commodore 64 review called the programmer and artist "the John Meegan/Steve Thompson RoboCop team" and praised Jonathan Dunn's music, built from famous period tunes. | p. 76, The Untouchables, reviewp. 77, The Untouchables, review | Magazine |
| Zzap!64 reviewed the Commodore 64 version in November 1989 at £9.99 on cassette and £14.99 on disk and gave it 96% overall, with 97% for presentation, 95% for graphics, 97% for sound, 95% for hookability, and 97% for lastability. A reviewer noted that losing every life doesn't send the player back to level one. Zzap!64's Amiga review four months later says the Commodore 64 game won a Gold Medal. | p. 76, The Untouchables, headerp. 78, ratingsp. 78, ratingsp. 78, ratingsp. 78, ratingsp. 78, ratingsp. 77, reviewer's commentp. 77, reviewer's comment | Magazine |