 Hamster Corporation re-released "Pulstar" for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch in 2017 under their "Arcade Archives" series.In Japan, "Game Machine" listed "Pulstar" on their 1 October 1995 issue as being the seventh most-successful arcade game of the year.Harumi Fujita claims that the game was received positively by SNK and Neo Geo fans.