| 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. 7, newsp. 7, newsp. 7, newsp. 7, news | 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 (Amiga), opening | Magazine |
| Zzap!64 reviewed the Amiga version in March 1990 as Special FX's work, with its contents page calling it "Ocean's Sizzling Amiga conversion of the C64 classic". A reviewer found that Special FX had changed and sped up the structure: the first level has a much smaller map, and the second is faster and needs no telescopic sight, making it more of an Operation Thunderbolt game. It lacked the Commodore 64's atmosphere but was "still an excellent game". The ratings box gives 90% overall (presentation 78%, graphics 89%, sound 86%, hookability 89%, lastability 93%). | p. 5, contentsp. 77, reviewer's commentp. 77, reviewer's commentp. 77, reviewer's commentp. 77, ratingsp. 77, ratingsp. 77, ratingsp. 77, reviewer's comment | Magazine |